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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 1113 of 1511 06 February 2014 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Deux défis pour moi dans la semaine prochaine - on fera un discours en roumain, cette
fois-ci une lettre personnelle, et l'autre - un écrit presque dadaïste qui contient tous les locutions prépositives du site-web de Bertrand Boutin, le vieux québécois...) On se rend ici pour voir la liste... Mis à part ces deux défis d'écriture, moi, j'aime bien les langues et je me suis concentré sur l'hébreu encore une fois, et je fais deux leçons de la vague ACTIVE chaque jour (en fait c'est plutôt parce que j'ai eu assez de cet ouvrage Assimil), additionellement j'ai réçu Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets (en hébreu, vous comprenez...) et grâce à ma traduction anglais-américaine, on apprend vite l'hébreu! Quand je termine l'Assimil hébreu, faut que je cherche un autre ouvrage à aborder... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 1114 of 1511 12 February 2014 at 10:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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No internet for the past days, so have gotten some Hebrew done but not much else of note.
But that's okay. We'll fix it. I have some French homework to do later today. But the good news is that in little less than an hour I will do some German and we will see how that goes. Not studied German for an age... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 1115 of 1511 12 February 2014 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The very good news about my German is: it is totally functional and the teacher made me
do some sample B2.2 questions which didn't really force me to struggle that much. She thinks I can handle C1 material in German (probably correct if only on the basis of the fact that German is easy to understand but hard to speak right). I still hate writing German, but that is the last hurdle to its usability - speaking could be a bit better but more in accuracy (and not swallowing final syllables - the Dutch way of hiding that you don't know the case). My Romanian lesson was spent integrally correcting every single mistake, putting the accent on subtle differences (and the difference between datives and pronominal verbs, which can be an idiomatic difference in Romanian...) French also went well, but I am pretty happy with my French anyways. Edited by tarvos on 16 February 2014 at 12:27am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 1116 of 1511 16 February 2014 at 12:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've FINALLY managed to get round to some Korean again - I'm just using work to listen
to podcasts (I work outside as a postman, so if I know the area and there are no shops then I can just put in earphones and screw everyone else). I only have the ability to listen, though, so I just listen to some TTMIK podcasts and I'm happy. In other news, I'm really feeling improvement in my Hebrew, it's just become easier to speak and understand. I need to keep up that momentum because it would be terrible to lose it. But I am doing well in it now. Reading is still slow, but also a bit better. And the first book is always the hardest, but by the end you always speak better and that's good to know. Once I complete HP2, Hebrew will be the ninth language in which I've completed a full book. I am still inconfident reading something that I don't have a translation for, though - that's kind of my reason for not putting it at speaks. But it's definitely gone into B1 now. I had a very terrible Romanian class (or actually strange - I know nădejde, but I forgot fotoliu... annoying, that sort of mistake. Although it does not hamper my ability to express myself. However, after I finish the iTalki challenge I really need to rethink my old languages strategy - I could probably drop French again for a while and improve my German. Hebrew stays. Romanian... I do not know what my plans are for it now, but it is going well for sure. It would be a shame not to work on that momentum. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 1117 of 1511 19 February 2014 at 8:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Improvement is being made all around. I am still slowly but surely working through HP2
in Hebrew and checking against the English translation when I am unsure what something means (in context). This is an exercise in extensive reading so I don't look up words - I only look it up if the total paragraph confuses me. As for my Romanian plans... I am going to volunteer as an English teacher in Romania for six weeks in April! Romania will happen this year after all, and that makes me very happy! I will stay in Brasov given that all the preparations go according to plan (and they will) so it will be super fine! I've also managed to do some Korean podcasting again, and I have completed until TTMIK 5x19. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 1118 of 1511 19 February 2014 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's crazy! Congratulations. Write about it here, eh? :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 1119 of 1511 21 February 2014 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't know, it doesn't take a lot except for 10 minutes of your time and a boatload of money at your disposal to sign up :) But it's going to be more than worth it and I wanted to go to Romania this year anyway. I'm happy that I will be based in Transylvania too - visit Dracula's castle, I'll be there in spring when the forests are in bloom and so on. By the way, I'll stay in a host family for 6 weeks - Romanians. Pure. Immersion. The best way to learn :) Vom vorbi română în fiecare zi! And aside from that, it's just great to sit there and not have to deal with job interviews and so on all the time. I am sick of being unemployed...(tons of savings are a good thing!) Edited by tarvos on 21 February 2014 at 5:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 1120 of 1511 23 February 2014 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, that sounds awesome. I had a friend whose parents were from Translyvania - we
always used to joke that she might be descended from vampires. That's going to be so great. And yeah, good luck with your continuing job search! You're obviously highly competent, so I think it's just a matter of time before you find your dream job (or your dream job finds you!). Romania will be a nice grace period to clear your head. I know it can just get really old, the grind of filling out job applications. :-P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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