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| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4350 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 81 of 140 14 January 2013 at 11:04am | IP Logged |
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"Har du gillat "Svenska med sång"? De där sångerna är som sånger till barn men man kan
sjunga alla." Yeah I've looked at it, it's pretty good! I'm getting more & more used to speaking Swedish. Thinking about starting to cover songs on my guitar and try to sing them as well. Thanks for the link! And it is indeed very usefull that they have Swedish subtitles on SVT, makes it very good to follow since I would be a bit more lost if they didn't have them. It's also a good feeling when you hear them say something but the subtitles are not the entire sentence, but you still understood what they said :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 82 of 140 14 January 2013 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
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So, subtitles vs no subtitles: 2-0 ;)
Yeah, normally the subs capture the meaning of the dialogue rather than transcribe it word for word. (Usually it's a matter of time and space, what the viewer can grasp in a split second, and how much text one can display before the next line- it might be a movie with quick dialogue) It's good to hear that you find subs useful! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5164 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 83 of 140 19 January 2013 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
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Hi, Julie! I'm just dropping by to wish you good luck and give you a few corrections as promised.
First of all, I have to admit the last 2,5 weeks were pretty much lost for any serious learning. In English, we use a decimal point rather than a decimal comma, so to say two and one half we would right 2.5 rather than 2,5. In English, 2.500 means two and one half, while 2,500 means two thousand five hundred. I read a couple of news on this website. I would write "a couple of news articles", since "a couple of news" just doesn't make sense in English. that I made a very bad classroom experience with in just in the very beginning... pretty traumatic ;) If you say "make an experience", it truly means that you CAUSE it - for example, "You made this day a wonderful experience for him." I think what you meant to say is, "I HAD a very bad classroom experience," which indicates that whatever it was happened to you, but you didn't intentionally will it. I felt like I missed to much, This might have been a typo, but "too" should have two O's, since here it means "as well" and does not indicate direction or accompany an infinitive. I wish I found this earlier This should be "I wish I HAD found this earlier". The songs are very melodic and easy to sing along This doesn't sound quite natural. You either need to say "and IT'S easy to sing along" or change it to "and easy to sing along TO". I also learned/revised some vocabulary I think you mean "reviewed", not "revised". "To revise" means "to edit", so this sounds like you are changing the vocabulary. (5 x 1,5 hours) This should be "1.5" hours. to be replaced by the name of any punctuation mark you are very much in need at the moment This should be "you are very much in need OF". The phrase is "to be in need OF", so make sure you don't leave out the "of". :) a GREAT deal of overdue revisions I would change this to "reviews". before January, 1st In English we do not put a comma between the name of the month and the date. (Do you ever do that in Polish? I have no idea! :)) I know it sounds hardly impressive . . . but the avid reader I was in my child and teen years, I don't read many novels these days I understand what you mean, but I would change "but the avid reader I was in my child and teen years" to "in spite of the fact that I was an avid reader in my child and teen years" or "despite being an avid reader in my child and teen years". Right now the sentence sounds incomplete. What are you reading, by the way? In my local library in Switzerland, there were tons of BDs. I was so busy with books, audiobooks, movies and music though, that I've never even taken a look at them. :( From what I can tell, you mean you used to live in Switzerland and that you never took advantage of the library while you were there. If this is the case, you should switch the "I've never even taken" to "I never even took". If you use present perfect, it makes it sound as if you STILL live in Switzerland but you just haven't had time to look YET. If you use past simple, it is clear that your window of opportunity to look at the material has passed because you no longer live there. Lastly, these might have been typos, but "intellectual" has two L's, not one, and it is "enrichment", not "enrichement". Your English is really very good - I had to sift through the content of several long posts to find as many corrections as I did, and you used lots of idioms and colloquial language perfectly. I hope my comments were useful! :) Edited by Amerykanka on 19 January 2013 at 6:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4350 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 84 of 140 31 January 2013 at 8:48am | IP Logged |
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Jag ska försöka att skriva svenska nu.
Det är tyst här Julie! Jag vet att du är upptaget men hur mår du och den svensk studie? Jag tittar på Wallander och Solsidan med svensk undertexter nu, det är bra och inte så svårt! Så när du har tid, titta på den förste episode av Solsidan. Det är jätteroligt. I hope I didn't make too many mistakes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6896 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 85 of 140 31 January 2013 at 2:45pm | IP Logged |
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Hej Kez, jag vet att det är mycket tyst här, men jag kommer att ha flera tid nu, alltså jag ska skriva om min studie snart. Och vi ska tala med varandra med/på/? Skype! Det ska vara jätteroligt!
I hope I didn't make too many mistakes either ;). I found one in your post: it should be "du är upptageN", I think. If you find any mistakes in mine, let me know, sometimes it's much easier to find mistakes in someone else's writing. Amerykanka, thank you so much for your corrections! I've been crazy busy recently but I'm going to update my log soon, and hopefully I'll manager to avoid some of the mistakes :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4700 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 86 of 140 31 January 2013 at 2:59pm | IP Logged |
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På Skype låter bättre, jag tycker, men som alltid skulle en svensk bekräfta det. Jag vet
också inte om man kan säga att man har flera tid, jag skulle ha sagt mycket (fri?) tid (eller helt enkelt "jag har nu tid"). Flera betyder "several". Edit: I just googled "flera tid", and it gives 7000 hits or so. My hunch is that "mycket tid" or some variant is much more common, although I couldn't tell you exactly what the right form should be, ask Jeff. Edited by tarvos on 31 January 2013 at 3:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6896 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 87 of 140 31 January 2013 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
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Tarvos, mycket tack! Jag ville säga "more time", och inte "a lot of time". Jag har inte läst hur man säger "more" på svenska, och darför har jag använt min ordbok, men det är sällan en bra ide!
I rarely have a lot of time :). I talked recently with a friend of mine who had been crazy busy in the last days as well and is generally as busy as me, and we agreed that luckily, we went back from 'crazy busy' to our normal 'very busy' schedule ;). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 88 of 140 31 January 2013 at 7:24pm | IP Logged |
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It's 'mer tid'.
'på Skype' is the normal way to express things. (cf. 'på MSN', 'på Youtube', 'på HTLAL'...) I'd say 'Det kommer att bli jätteroligt' - 'kommer att' instead of 'ska' (no obligation, no weather forecast... cf 'Det ska bli snö i morgon');'bli' instead of 'vara' (it just sounds better). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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