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| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 113 of 176 06 March 2015 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Backup 1st March 2015. Thank you mrwarper!
This week I have studied German for 9 hours. I haven't studied as much as I would have liked to, as I had to send my application for Erasmus (and thus prepare a lot of paper stuff), but I have perfectioned my study routine and decided (or found out) what works best for me. During the week I will study grammar, read and watch a lot of stuff and do some excerices, so it will consist mainly of a lot of imput, whereas on the weekend I will write something as I have more time to do so. I'm not neglecting Swedish. I'm just not reporting anything as I'm still doing the same old stuff: watch TV and read a lot. But this week I have read something very interesting about Skåne and decided I'd make a short summary of what I've learnt.
I have made a few tweaks to the text and corrected grammatical/spelling mistakes I could recognise. Corrections are as always appreciated! I have a question for German speakers. I was reading a newspaper and I coudln't get my head around this sentence: "Leider verletzt der Entwurf aus dem Hause Tiefensee diesen Grundsatz in einigen Punkten". Tiefensee is a person and the article is talking about public transport. I can add the rest of the paragraph if you need more context. Thank you! Edited by Sarnek on 06 March 2015 at 6:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 114 of 176 06 March 2015 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This was Emme's reply concerning my question. I hope it's not a problem if I post it myself...
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY EMME (Thanks again) I’m sure our German friends will gladly help you, but in the meanwhile let me try a translation. Leider / verletzt / der Entwurf aus dem Hause Tiefensee / diesen Grundsatz /in einigen Punkten. Position 1 / V/ S / Objekt / modal Ergänzung. Italian: Purtroppo il progetto di casa Tiefensee (a volte in Italiano diremmo: “targato Tiefensee”) viola questo principio in alcuni punti. If there’s something I’m not sure about, is why you use “aus dem Hause Tiefensee” with the family name Tiefensee following the noun “Hause” (DAT because of the preposition “aus”) with no preposition or apparent case. But it looks like it’s something that you can do in German. There’s a recent book, for instance, entitled Englands Königinnen aus dem Hause Hannover (1714-1901). As you see it’s the same pattern. EDIT: added a link to the book page on the publisher’s website. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5339 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 115 of 176 10 March 2015 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
No problem: less work for me! I actually write all my posts in Word and keep a backup copy, in case a technical glitch messes with my posts. So for me it’s been relatively easy checking the few threads I contributed to in the “lost week” and restoring those posts of mine that had disappeared. PS. I’ve finally received the Großes Übungsbuch Wortschatz: what are we studying this week/fortnight? I can’t promise I’ll be able to keep your pace, but I can try. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 116 of 176 10 March 2015 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hehe I'm not that clever unfortunately :P I am going to do the exercises (those, as I previously mentioned, without the nutcracker symbol) for chapters E, F, G and hopefully H. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5339 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 117 of 176 11 March 2015 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
All in one week?!? That seems pretty intense: I’ll see what I can do. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 118 of 176 11 March 2015 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
No sorry, I meant by the end of next week :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 119 of 176 14 March 2015 at 11:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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So, let's see what's new. My computer decided to
break down - for good this time - so I had to buy a new one which'll hopefully arrive next week. Apart from that, this was quite a good week for my studies. I've studied German for a good 20 hours, focusing a lot on vocabulary. I also have to say, I may have judged the book (großes Übungsbuch) a bit too quickly: It differs a lot from last year's book and I quite like it now. I'm also noticing some progress: things which once were gruelling are now slowly becoming automatic. I'm noticing this especially with "older" grammar, namely grammar I studied at the very beginning (like cases, verbs position, etc.). Same goes for pronunciation, which has improved once Ive started listening to and watching native content (not that I understand that much, but still). In Swedish I've reached page 100 of "det är så logiskt alla fattar utom du". It's going slowly, but I'm grateful it's going at all, considering I read the same pages three times (the first time without looking up any words, the second time looking up the ones I don't know, the third time reading everything once again). Here's a little something I've written in Swedish. Arnlod Schwarzenegger är, bland annat, en berömd skådespelare men inte många känner till hans liv. Han föddes 1947 i Österrike och var son i en fattig familj: hans far var polisman och hans mor var hemmafru. När han var ung så ville han bli kroppsbyggare, trots att han var fattig och alla han kände sa till honom att det skulle vara omöjligt att uppnå sådan dröm. Men han fortsatt att följa sin dröm ändå: han deltog i några tävlingar men kunde fortfarande inte betala hyran och tvingades sova på gymmet där han tränades golv. Han satt även i fängelse i två månader eftersom han hade deserterat armén för att delta in en tävling. När han flyttade till USA så var han 21 år gammal. Då började hans framgång: han vann Mr. Olympia 7 gånger och andra tävlingar fler gånger. Tack vare hans kroppsbyggande startade hans framgångsrika karriär som skådespelare 1970 med filmen "Herkules i New York", men blev mycket populär utrikes med "Conan Barbaren" och särskilt "Terminator". 2003 blev han Kaliforniens guvernör. Trots att jag inte delar hans politiska åsikter, är hans åtagande beundransvärt: han har använt sitt inflytande i kamper mot, bland annat, rasism, miljö, förorening och fattigdom. Han är en förebild för mig eftersom han har uppnåt så mycket med bara slit och ihållighet mot alla odds. Edited by Sarnek on 14 March 2015 at 11:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5158 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 120 of 176 14 March 2015 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Is the book named after this song? The song is older, because I remember it in 2007 and it says the book came out in 2011.
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