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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 97 of 586 11 December 2012 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm so mad I don't check the forum more often. Too late. Oops. :( I'll be adding Russian at the beginning of the year (and will probably join the other Russian team, if there is one). I'll be stalking all you guys, though. :) Good luck with all your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5758 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 98 of 586 11 December 2012 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
Hi Kerrie, Thanks for the good luck wishes and it's good to know someone will be glancing at my log other than me! I imagine there will be another Russian team as Russian seems to be massively popular yet again this year, but if there isn't, I think the remaining Russian enthusiasts who want to be part of a team will probably join Team Mir as late arrivals. If that is indeed the case then we will be glad to have you on board. LanguageSponge PS - To my ear, Команда Мир (Komanda Mir) sounds pretty good for when we write it in Russian :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5326 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 99 of 586 11 December 2012 at 8:59am | IP Logged | ||
We would love to have you! And as LanguageSponge says, unless there are more then 5 more who want to study Russian you will! 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 100 of 586 11 December 2012 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||
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As for the round of introductions,
My name is Jorn, I am a 23-year-old somebody from the Netherlands who is a student of science communications (which is like Bill Nye the Science Guy, only for adults) and I do this language thing here as a hobby. I grew up mostly in the Netherlands, but spent some time in Calgary, Canada as a young boy where I picked up the basics of English, and I have never forgotten them since - so from the age of 5 I could read both Dutch and English and I have never forgotten my English since (I am practically bilingual). I spoke Dutch at home, but I went to a bilingual school that did immersion in English and I thus developed my ability to speak English properly as a teenager. At school, I also studied French first, then German and Latin a year later. I have forgotten most of my Latin but I can still use my school German quite well. My French became somewhat more rusty. After having found a girl and having the need to travel back and forth to Brussels, Belgium often, I found that I started to have a need for French. I never formally learned any French and I did not speak English with the girl, but I did pick up French. After temporarily relocating to Brussels for two months and living with French people I made strides in my French. I then moved back to the Netherlands and decided on a whim to teach myself Russian. Russian has been my main focus language ever since. I can currently speak Russian converssationally to a degree, but I still have trouble with complex vocabulary - I am trying to fill the holes in my advanced Russian and also my listening ability in Russian which is not too great. I currently have finished all the beginner's courses and it's not the grammar which is making me feel inadequate, but the lack of advanced vocabulary. I, however, can do personal correspondence in Russian (especially in writing) and I understand colloquial Russian all right. I would estimate myself as a B1 in this language (I can get my point across, but I still have to search for expressions and my listening is awful). I also decided to take courses at the AF to finally get rid of all the gaping holes in my French grammar (I could speak French, but it was a grammatical nightmare) and since then I have been cleaning up my French and I certainly speak a whole lot better French now. I still have to focus to catch up on other people's conversations if I'm not speaking French, but I can pretty much speak French off-the-cuff now and do it with only very minor errors and a good deal of confidence. According to the AF I am a B1, but I think that I am breezing through the B1 material way too comfortably and that I am probably more of a low B2. Over the summer I thought I would try out an FSI course. The closest useful target language I could find was Swedish, and I have fallen in love with it since. We are six months to the day now and I can speak Swedish. Perhaps not like a native, but I can speak good improvised Swedish with a few minor errors. Also somewhere in the B range (I can read popular novels as well without too much difficulty). The last thing I have tried to do is the Assimil Experiment in a little-known Celtic language called Breton. I wanted to pick a language nobody else had and also something that I had materials for already. I am now trying to learn Breton to intermediate level, but one of the problems with this type of language is that it is endangered and thus speakers are scarce. My focus languages for 2013 are Russian and Breton; I hope to travel in Russia during the summer and upgrade my Russian to fluent status. I also hope that through my involvement in the Celtic team I will get to intermediate level in Breton, which will allow me to start the next language in 2013 (All signs currently point to Hebrew, but I've been saying that for months so do not be surprised if it's Tagalog, Farsi, Swahili, Greek, or Mandarin instead...or even simply Portuguese or Spanish). C'est tout. Jorn 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 101 of 586 11 December 2012 at 10:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Here I am catching up on the Russian team log before I even read my own team's. I miss you guys already, but I don't think I can manage Russian this year so this year I guess I'll be a groupie rather than a team member.
About our Japanese team name: You might be right about using the Latin alphabet being better. We really haven't been very creative either. Our names the past three years have followed the Japanese alphabet (or syllabary if you want to get technical), the first five letters of which are: A I U E O. We are now up to U. I will suggest to the other team members that we find a more creative name. We've been very boring. It's almost a little embarrassing. As for MIR burning up in the atmosphere as someone mentioned, it is the Total ANNIHILATION Challenge, people. That's what happens to a lot of people. Laika the dog didn't fare too well either, BTW. Anyway, I like the name MIR if my vote counts for anything. I hope if I join in 2014 that we can continue the space theme. Like Jake, I've been fascinated by space ever since I was seven. Back when I was a kid, I knew the names of all the different rockets, probes and satellites, and also planets, their moons, stars, constellations, etc. (Typical Asperger obsession.) Unfortunately, I've forgotten all that stuff now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5048 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 102 of 586 11 December 2012 at 11:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Я удалил это сообщение. Edited by Марк on 12 December 2012 at 9:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5326 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 103 of 586 11 December 2012 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | ||
You may return as a member yet, so hang in there! Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 15 December 2012 at 3:34pm 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 104 of 586 11 December 2012 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nope, my French is better. The AF has got their analysis wrong. But yes, I am pretty sure
my Russian is understandable, because, you know, I have used it to talk to people and I was always understood. I think you, Mark, are the only one who is not satisfied with my Russian ;) I assure you I have had compliments concerning my Russian from at least 5 or 6 different people. So I am positive I am doing something right. And yes, I am understood. I chat in Russian practically every day and have conversations in it. Yes, I express myself in a slightly Tarzan way but that is still better than not in Russian and the Russians seem to be very happy about it. Edited by tarvos on 11 December 2012 at 12:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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