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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 121 of 145 10 November 2014 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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My progresses with Spanish:
yesterday I chatted in facebook with a C1 speaker of Spanish in Spanish, for 30 minutes. today I talked 5 minute with a native Spanish speaker. Of course both with errors and of course about easy topics but with 100% comprehension on both sides. (Itañol rulez :D) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 122 of 145 10 November 2014 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
Aww just saw this. I somehow got the impression that you didn't skip the English introduction? That makes it boring for sure. I also found the audio fairly easy when I watched the series, but I liked watching with close captions on in order to catch every single word. My listening was kinda better than my reading anyway. Now, if you found the plot cheesy that's a different story :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 123 of 145 10 November 2014 at 2:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I watched the entire first episode with English to understand how this is meant to work.
Then I saw one minute of the last episode and it was still unnaturally slow. The point is that I understand Spanish quite well even if talked really fast (it's not the speed but the topic that makes it difficult to me in Spanish) so I cannot stand to listen to very slow audio. I. Have. This. Feeling. Why. Are. You. Talking. So. Slowly. The fact it is a telenovela makes the whole thing even worse :D However I really liked there was something similar in Dutch. It is for this issue with really slow speed of several beginner sources that I prefer to use intermediate/advanced/native stuff and it is paying because now I can speak with natives after only three weeks of study (with errors and Italianisms obviously) without having ever pronounced out loud - it is just in my ears. Edited by tristano on 10 November 2014 at 2:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 124 of 145 10 November 2014 at 2:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I see. I did it only after I had seen many football matches, so for me it was an opportunity to slow down and make sure I don't get only the gist but actually understand every word.
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 125 of 145 10 November 2014 at 11:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I see :) I'm personally ok with not understanding every word - I will, eventually :)
The problem for me is when I understand every word but not the meaning :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 126 of 145 11 November 2014 at 8:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Tonight I made a multilingual dream where I spoke English, French, Spanish and Italian :D
I was working in a space agency, and there were american spies that wanted to destroy our mission and to kill me... cool stuff :D 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 127 of 145 12 November 2014 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was thinking a little bit about the last weeks.
In this moment I have very little energy. I feel overwhelmed about too many things that I'm doing (in general). I studied much less than what I was planning to do. But I noticed a pattern. It's happening more times that even if I don't feel like using the foreign language someone else starts to use it involving me. Facebook is giving me more French, Dutch and Spanish than before. I'm having more unplanned and random contact with the languages I study. I'm meeting more and more polyglots randomly. And eventually, sometimes I start to think in foreign languages (the least frequent being Dutch) without making it on purpose. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 128 of 145 16 November 2014 at 2:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Edit.
Future me: please avoid writing posts after some beer ;) Summary: I don't master any language. But who cares. They're making my life richer already. Edited by tristano on 17 November 2014 at 1:04am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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