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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 41 of 89 05 April 2013 at 12:02pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck with German!
As for Brythonic languages, I recommend Breton of course! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4596 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 42 of 89 05 April 2013 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
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Josquin, I plan to start on the first of June or there abouts, it could be a crazy time
after the finals! Thanks very much for your offer, it's very much appreciated! Tarvos, Welsh has a strong lead considering Wales' proximity to Ireland but I could of course be persuaded ;) You mentioned that you didn't find Assimil's Le Breton of the same standard as the others, why exactly? Neither does there seem to be agreement among learners as to which Welsh course is the best on the market. I'll probably browse the net a bit over the summer, but for the immediate future my focus turns to French and German. 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 43 of 89 05 April 2013 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
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The humour is lacking. Most of the stories quite simply are not funny (and it's not
that I don't understand the humour due to the French translation - the Romanian book is funny and I use French translations there too). The method still works as it does but it's just not as fun to do the lessons. For a second they teach a lot of useless vocabulary: In the first 30 or so lessons you run across obscure fishes, crabs, slate stones, and chestnut. Note that there is Colloquial Breton for English speakers, but I didn't use it - I exclusively have used French, for the reason that it's also a way to maintain that language for me and because I bought my materials in France. Haha, of course you should take Welsh. I don't know much Welsh except Newydd wawr (new dawn). Just putting Breton out there a bit because it's the forgotten language of the Brythonic languages. Edited by tarvos on 05 April 2013 at 12:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4596 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 44 of 89 06 April 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the review. I was actually thinking about dabbling in Breton as the region
is very appealing and has a unique character about it, from what I've pieced together from browsing the internet/TV. Anyways, it's on my hit list for the future, given my general interest in Celtic languages as well as minority languages. Gaelic Nothing exciting to report. I went through two chapters of TY Gaelic, listened to and read this week's "Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig". I understood the majority of this on the first listening, having to look up only a few words in the dictionary the second time around. This is due no doubt to the speakers clear dictation of every word, and so I do not claim anywhere near perfect listening skills for the moment ;) I stumbled across this site which contains many posts and links to various Gaelic blogs for those interested. I haven't looked through it properly myself as I'm about to move on to a good study session of French. (update later). Also, being the dialect enthusiast that I am, I've just ordered a set of five books from http://books.dias.ie/ making up a dialectal study of the Gaelic dialects. It's on sale, down from €170 to €20. Jackpot! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4596 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 45 of 89 09 April 2013 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
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A quick update, as I've homework to do!
French I've found the site www.franceculture.fr very useful over the last few days and I plan on spending some time on it everyday. This month I also intend to write a piece on lang-8 every second day, writing being the skill I've most neglected over the past while. As usual, I've been watching some videos on YouTube, some great video suggestions and the like to be found over at Tastyonions' log. Gaelic The books mentioned above have arrived, and boy are they worth it! Five HUGE volumes in total, compromising of the phonetic record of the Gaelic dialects study. I've no immediate plans for this, just something to fill up my library. If anyone's looking for a reference to gaelic dialects this is a must. I'm back at college once more, and so I've decided to decrease my activity with Scots Gaelic as mentioned above, considering that my Celtic thirst will be satisfied with my spouse (Irish) and some of her wonderful works such as An tOileánach, and as mentioned before in this log Mo Bhealach Féin. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4463 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 46 of 89 26 April 2013 at 5:13am | IP Logged |
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Franceculture is a great website for French. If you want me to correct your entries on lang-8, you can mp me your pseudo on lang-8 and I will add you as a friend.
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| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4596 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 47 of 89 17 May 2013 at 9:06pm | IP Logged |
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Hello there!
Well, let me begin by apologising for not having updated in so long. I've been INCREDIBLY busy with college work, it just creeps up on you doesn't it? Due to this I've had literally no time to study any language besides Irish for college, and I feel quite restless about this. A month seems like a long time to miss, but things WILL improve from tomorrow week on! I've spent some a tiny amount of time listening to French and Gaelic in order to maintain some sort of contact (youtube, BBC site etc), but this hasn't been consistent. The end of May will see me studying French almost exclusively, with some Gaelic song and radio thrown in to keep me rolling over. Future Plans It may seem a bit senseless to some to make plans for the summer given the spontaneous nature of the season, but as stated before I plan on starting German at the beginning of June using Assimil. Whether this will be pushed back to the middle of the month in order to accommodate for the time already lost in May remains to be seen but for the moment this is still my target date. Can I study three languages a day? The real question being do I want to?...of course! I'm really looking forward to this summer, lots of plans for languages, and other engagements also :) On a side note, I've ordered Routledge's Colloquial Welsh from Amazon. No immediate plans for Welsh save for dabbling, but I hope to see some more Welsh/Celtic learners out there by the time I get around to it sometime later this year! Team mates, I do apologise for my absence, I'll try to visit as many logs as I can for a catch up. Until next week then! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4596 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 48 of 89 28 May 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged |
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Tuesday 28/05/13
First day of my return to study today. Gaelic I went through Scottish Gaelic in 12 weeksup to chapter 6, completing many of the exercises that I skipped over in the past and listened to all the accompanying audio. I downloaded a hundred podcasts from http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/fog hlam/learngaelic/litir/ which I attend to go through one every other day. The text is available on the website, and the content is generally quite interesting be it recounting history or discussing place names of the Highlands. French I eased myself back into French with a few videos on YouTube. After a quick cup of tea I'm going to study for another hour or so. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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