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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 1361 of 1511 17 February 2015 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
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Some more stuff about atheism and the concept of faith, and how it works and doesn't
work, in Russian. Атеизм и вера 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 1362 of 1511 19 February 2015 at 2:33pm | IP Logged |
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Some notes on Norwegian
I've set my status to speaks Norwegian, because by all means I can speak to Norwegians, we understand each other and I can read anything they write. I need a bit more training when they write in Nynorsk, but in principle it's all hunky-dory. What I don't speak is pure Norwegian, but that's what we're going to train now - I have booked hours with a Norwegian iTalki tutor (who is not from Oslo, as I don't intend to speak that dialect, but a western based one where Nynorsk is more common). This is really fun, because it's really just focusing on their pronunciation (and a few little grammar details and spelling, but I know most of the differences anyway. I will occasionally use a Swedish word, but sometimes it's the Nynorsk one too - there's just no way of telling and it's usually understood). The problem for me is that my Norwegian is always, basically, Svorsk, and although I'm managing bit by bit to get it to be Norwegified it's still clear that I've studied Swedish more thoroughly. But we'll get there. It's also not often people learn to separate the two and speak both, usually they learn one and use that one to communicate with the others. I don't think I'll try Danish on for size any time soon, but I might at some point go back to Icelandic. Whenever that is. 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 1363 of 1511 20 February 2015 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
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Some poetry, and a little artistic embellishment, about Beijing by night in the snow on a
very lonely holiday. Где-то в темноте 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 1364 of 1511 05 March 2015 at 5:07am | IP Logged |
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Glad to see the forum has been revived. I have been active with Chinese, Norwegian, Greek
and Russian mostly and my Norwegian sounds a lot better now. 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 1365 of 1511 06 March 2015 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
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By the way, two French things I posted on my blog:
Haine This is a short poem I wrote in the middle of the night here in Beijing, and the next one is: La dure loi du karma, a review of a book by Mo Yan that I read in the French translation (because I am shit at Chinese). I've also decided to focus for now on those languages I already have some competence in, so next to the ones under speaks that is obviously including Chinese (because I live in China), Greek (my next country), Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew. I'll also continue with my very old languages such as Russian and I'm still studying Norwegian, but I can speak Norwegian now (albeit with a thick Swedish accent and occasionally I will use a Swedish word). 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 1366 of 1511 06 March 2015 at 10:25am | IP Logged |
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Kinesiske templer
About towers and temples in Beijing (in Norwegian). 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 1367 of 1511 11 March 2015 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
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I'm sorry about the lack of updates on both my blog and here, but I've just moved to a
new town and I've also fallen ill with a case of "I think I need to adapt to the food" so I hope that today I will be able to produce a blog entry of sorts. I've not done much study either, but I hope to pick it up when my stomach has stopped growling. Aside from that I have a full-time job + my iTalki stuff so there's not much to say here or do. I've been studying Chinese and Russian mainly. Russian seems to be the mainstay in my routine, especially as I plan to open an iTalki course at some point teaching Russian to beginners. 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 1368 of 1511 13 March 2015 at 2:08am | IP Logged |
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I'm still studying and teaching, but blog updates have been far and few between. I hope
that I can find the energy to do one or two this week; one should be about Game of Thrones and one about my first week in Chengde (this one will be in Mandarin). The Game of Thrones text will probably be in English as that's the original of the novel. I also plan to post a more thorough analysis of my weaknesses in certain languages in this topic. This is excluding Dutch and English, but will focus on all my languages that are intermediate or above (so not Korean/Icelandic/Breton) Edited by tarvos on 13 March 2015 at 2:09am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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