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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 129 of 236 04 June 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello. Hello? What just happened?
I just realized that the HP movies deviates from the book.. when they do their punishment with Malfoy in the Forbidden Forest toward the end of the first book, it's Neville, not Ron, that goes to the forest with Hermione, Malfoy, and Harry. I thought the movies were faithful to the books. I thought Rowling made sure they didn't do that kind of thing! =( 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 130 of 236 08 June 2012 at 4:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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French with Ease. is. finished. Well, I will be reviewing it a lot, I'm sure. But I officially finished it. Whee! (or Oui!?!) :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| blackdahlia Pro Member United States Joined 4721 days ago 64 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French Personal Language Map | Message 131 of 236 11 June 2012 at 12:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, and the changes get more flagrant as you go through the series (has a nasty flashback to movie 6) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 132 of 236 11 June 2012 at 12:12am | IP Logged | |||||
That's kinda disappointing. I have only read the first four books. (Don't tell anyone, though. I am saving them to be "new" material for Spanish and French.) =) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 133 of 236 15 June 2012 at 1:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, I have officially decided not to do the Super Challenge in Croatian. Besides the fact that I feel like a -A2 most of the time (can you go negative? LOL), I can't find enough resources online, and I can't afford to import stuff to the US. I could probably do a Half Challenge with just films, but it would mostly be with subs, and I'm more concerned with conversational skills for Croatian. I might try to get through the first Harry Potter book once I finish with Colloquial Croatian and Serbian and Assimil Le Croate, and if I can fumble my way through that without any audio help, then I might try to work through all seven books by the end of next year. I'm making my Spanish, French, Italian, and German Super Challenges a higher priority, though. I noticed that the Game of Thrones Season 1 DVD set (from UK Amazon) has Spanish and French audio, plus a host of subs (including Croatian and Turkish). I may cave in and buy that one of these days, which would be about 10 hours of movie time. I haven't looked around for other movies or box sets that have Croatian subs yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4881 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 134 of 236 15 June 2012 at 2:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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I watched part of Game of Thrones in French. The main actors were dubbed nicely, but
some of the secondary characters were a bit rough. Props if you can figure out how to say "dire wolf" - the closest I could make out was loup gerant, and it sounds like a fun word to know. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 135 of 236 18 June 2012 at 6:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, wow. Ask you you shall receive!
This Subtitles Site has thousands of subs for Croatian, among many other languages. Granted, it's not listening practice, but I think it could still be very beneficial. So I am back in for a Half Challenge with movies only. On another note, I'm working through both Assimil's Using Spanish and Using French books. I've only gotten a few lessons into the French book, and it seems like it's at the right level for me. The Spanish book is really intensive, though. The lessons are two or three times longer than the lessons in Spanish with Ease. It seems like each lesson focuses on one or two verbs that each have dozens of different idioms attached to it. Andar, passar, coger, poner. Most of the idioms make sense to me, and I would recognize them, but I am needing a lot more active learning in this book than in the last. It's good to have found a book that is really at my level, and I am enjoying it a lot. EDIT: They have subs in Croatian for Stargate,too. Whee! I think I actually learn more when reading subtitles than listening in the target language and reading English. At least at this point. =) Edited by Kerrie on 23 June 2012 at 4:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5387 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 136 of 236 01 July 2012 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Okay, so I have moved my paste.it over here for the time being due to computer problems (which should hopefully be fixed next week). Here is the June update for my Super Challenges. Spanish audiobooks, movies, TV shows: 9/100 6. Stargate SG1, (Enigma) (Solitudues), subs & dubs, finished June 15, 2012 7. Stargate SG1, (There but for the Grace of God) (Politics), EN audio, SP subs, June 19, 2012 8. Toy Story, film, SP dub, SP subs, June 26, 2012 9. Stargate SG1, (Within the Serpent's Grasp - 1) ( ------), EN audio, SP subs, ---------- books: (4.5/100) 1. Harry Potter y La Piedra Filosofal, finished June 4, 2012, (254 pages) 2. Charlie y la Fábrica de Chocolate, finished June 26, 2012 (198 pages) writings: (9/100) 2. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 2, copied, June 1, 2012 3. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 3, copied, June 2, 2012 4. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 4, copied, June 4, 2012 5. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 5, copied, June 13, 2012 6. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 6, copied, June 14, 2012 7. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 7, copied, June 16, 2012 8. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 8, copied, June 17, 2012 9. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 9, copied, June 21, 2012 French audiobooks, movies, TV shows: (20/100) 13. Stargate SG1 (La Dernière Chance, Partie 1 & 2), FR audio, EN subs, June 7, 2012 14. Stargate SG1 (Redemption, Part 1 & 2), FR andio, EN subs, June 10, 2012 15. Stargate SG1 (Descent, Nightwalkers) FR audio, EN subs, June 11, 2012 16. Stargate SG1 (Frozen, Abyss) FR audio, EN subs, June 12, 2012 17. Stargate SG1 (Shadow Play, The Other Guys) FR audio, EN subs, June 13, 2012 18. Stargate SG1 (Allegiance, Cure) FR audio, EN subs, June 15, 2012 19. Stargate SG1 (Disclosure, Momento) FR audio, EN subs, June 19, 2012 20. Le Hérisson (The Hedgehog), FR audio, EN subs, June 27, 2012 writings: (26.5/100) 5-21. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 80-99 22. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 01, copied June 13, 2012 23. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 02, copied June 14, 2012 24. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 03, copied June 15, 2012, (100 words) --- Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 04, copied June 17, 2012, (100 words) 25. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 05, copied June 18, 2012, (100 words) -- Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 06, copied June 20, 2012, (100 words) 26. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 08, copied June 21, 2012, (100 words) - Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 09, copied June 24, 2012, (100 words) 27. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 10, copied June 26, 2012, (100 words) German audiobooks, movies, TV shows: (1/100) 1. Stargate SG1 (Moebius Part 1 & 2), DE audio, EN subs, June 9, 2012 writings: (4/100) 1.5. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 45, copied, June 3, 2012, 100 words 2. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 46, copied, June 15, 2012, 100 words --. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 47, copied, June 17, 2012, 100 words 3. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 48, copied, June 20, 2012, 100 words -- Assimil German with Ease Lesson 50, copied, June 21, 2012, 100 words 4. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 51, copied, June 24, 2012, 100 words -- Assimil German with Ease Lesson 52, copied, June 26, 2012, 100 words Italian writings: (4.5/100) 1. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 24, copied, June 5, 2012 2. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 25, copied, June 14, 2012 (100 words) --. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 26, copied, June 17, 2012 (100 words) 3. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 27, copied, June 18, 2012 (100 words) -- Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 29, copied, June 20, 2012 (100 words) 4. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 30, copied, June 21, 2012 (100 words) - Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 31, copied, June 24, 2012 (100 words) 5. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 32, copied, June 26, 2012 (100 words) Croatian audiobooks, movies, TV shows: (4/100) 1. The Lion King (Kralj Lavova), Croatian dub, English subs, June 21, 2012 2. Stargate SG1 (The Nox), Eng audio, Croation subs, June 22, 44 mins -- Stargate SG1 (Thor's Hammer), Eng audio, Croatian subs, June 23, 2012, 44 mins 3. The Lion King (Kralj Lavova), Croatian dub, English subs, June 23, 2012 4. Stargate SG1 (There But for the Grace of God), Eng audio, Croatian subs, June 23, 2012, 44 mins -- Stargate SG1 (Death Knell), Eng audio, Croatian subs, June 28, 2012 I have also added a Half (films only) Challenge for Turkish as an excuse to go back to watching Turkish dramas without the guilt. It's like giving yourself permission to eat chocolate without feeling guilty about it! (Well, that, and Turkish has been on my hit list for a long time, and I was surprised how much I was learning when I was watching them.) I will probably add Turkish to my structured study next year. Right now, I am focusing on finishing the four Assimil courses I'm working on by the end of the summer. I also added a Half Challenge for Russian. (Which I can blame on Cristina, maydayayday, Serpent, and AnyaPop. They have a mental hospital, and they invited me. And who am I to turn down a good language nerd party?) For me, it was a commitment to Russian being one of my next focus languages. Whether or not I'll be able to finish it by the end of 2013, who knows. But I'll try! I ordered the English-based Assimil Russian course last week, and I'm expecting it to arrive this week. (Don't be surprised when I add Portuguese later, either. I told myself I have to finish the Advanced Assimil Spanish and French books, and Italian with Ease, before I can start working on Portugais du Bresil. I am aiming for September for all three of them. I started counting my Assimil writings as only half a writing for the Challenges. I copy the dialog and both of the exercises. Some of them are closer to 200 words, others are not. Either way, I will stop counting "copying" once I get to 50 (half the goal) for the writing part of the challenge. Since I'm closer to a beginner for Italian and German (and with the complexities of French orthography), I think this corresponds nicely with my goals for all three languages. Counting them as half will bring me to about 50 writings for each language by the end of the course, so it works out nicely. The Spanish writing with Assimil is a different story. Most of those dialogs are a lot longer than 200 words. In fact, I have thought about not copying them because they are so long. (Each lesson takes 2-3 pages in my spiral notebook to copy.) But I know I learn better by doing that, so I will continue as long as my hand doesn't fall off! I'm really frustrated with my listening comprehension in Spanish. I can read Spanish with very little problem, but unless someone is talking slowly or I have the text in front of me, my brain can't keep up with what I hear. I watched Toy Story the other night. I started watching with only Spanish audio, and I was missing too much. As soon as I put the Spanish subs on though, I was fine. Any suggestions for dealing with this? For anyone in the US, check out Schoenhofs for Assimil and other target language books. I just got three Assimil books (no audio) for $50 with free shipping. Assimil Russian, Perfeccionnement Italien, and Hungarian with Ease. I only got the Hungarian book because it bumped my order over $50 and gave me free shipping. :D 1 person has voted this message useful |
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