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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 57 of 60 06 November 2014 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
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Ah, the Order of the Phoenix was my favourite in the series.
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| evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4009 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 58 of 60 19 November 2014 at 8:56pm | IP Logged |
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Spanish About 100 pages into La tía Julia, and it hasn´t grabbed me as much so
far. Lots of jerga and variants of words that I´m not familiar with, but it also has that alternating chapters style that he does quite well in other books. So far I´ve only read 2 chapters with Marito y Julia, 2 chapters of radionovela type storylines. It´s rather long, so I wouldn´t be surprised if I ended up starting something non- fiction in Spanish before I finish this. The series on Japan was very interesting, but heavily stacked towards the Meiji restoration through WWII era and much too forgiving, IMHO. Thinking about starting a series on Mexico or Egypt, but mostly listening to science podcasts lately. Mandarin Same, though I was pleasantly surprised to understand all the Chinese from an episode of Louie that was left untranslated. Really simple stuff, but always nice to encounter. Did some eavesdropping in a couple restaurants, but otherwise just staying on top of reviews is a substantial task. French Not much progress here, just some podcasts and a little bit of Harry Potter. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4009 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 59 of 60 08 December 2014 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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I could have sworn that I wrote another update about two week ago, but I don't see it
here. Spanish Finished La tía Julia and read about 100 pages of La Breve Historia de Roma I. At times La tía Julia was brilliant, and there were some incredible sentences and phrases that I can´t imagine would leap of the page in translation. I really like his writing style and the bizarre world of Pedro Camacho was fascinating, then repetitive, then fascinating again. The problem was that the main story of Marito and Julia wasn´t very compelling. Julia seemed to be weirdly dimensionless, and even Marito doesn´t seem to understand why a divorcee would be interested in an 18 year old like him, other than to feel young again. Mandarin Still just memrising, probably not gonna make much progress on this for the rest of the year. French Now about 10% through order of the Phoenix, and it´s still mostly in the setup mode, but thankfully I´ve escaped from Privet Drive. I don´t recall who gave the recommendation of Podprobleme, a montreal-based poscast on rzoweb, but I now listen to that and Point de Vue on a regular basis. I really like the relaxed atmosphere and improfessional tone, all of the france culture podcasts feel a bit stuffy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4009 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 60 of 60 24 December 2014 at 12:23am | IP Logged |
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Spanish Finsihed Breve Historia de Roma I, rather short and not that
interesting to be honest. I forgot what got me all excited about ancient Rome, but it faded by the time I finished it. I might hold off on nonfiction for a bit, but I just started on Ensayo Sobre la Ceguera, or Blindess by Jose Saramago. I know he's Portugese, but I figure the translation is probably closer to the original than the English one. Mandarin Memrise and ChineseSkill. Read the great "Our of Mao's Shadow" by Phillip Pan, and reading about China usually kickstarts my enthusiasm for learning Chinese. Hoping to get a Buddha Board for Christmas as well to practice my characters. French Not much reading, a few podcasts. French has fallen a bit behind as I try to get my Spanish Super Challenge numbers up for the end of the year. I'll be travelling a bit over Christmas/New Year's so I will probably have the opportunity for some lighter reading. But the biggest news of the past month is my new language. After considering a honeymoon in Spain, we took a turn to the south and decided on Tanzania. I had originally wanted to avoid a new language at all costs, three was enough for me, but it'd be too much for me to visit a Swahili-speaking country and not learn a bit. So far I'm just going through some Pimsleur, Memrise, and Quizlet stuff, but it's very different than anything I've studied thus far. Not sure how far I want to take it, as I hear it's not that useful for English speakers and there's not a ton of media available, but from a grammar and phonology perspective, very interesting. One of the disappointments of learning French this year was how it was mostly Eurocentric. Spanish is wonderful because I have this whole universe of media and history stretching from Argentina to Spain. I'm hoping Swahili will help me connect with East African culture in a way that I didn't do much of with West Africa and French. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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