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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes  Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 473 of 568 27 January 2014 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, that Wikipedia page warms my heart so much, you don't even know.
I also chuckled when I read that last part. You must be from the area. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 474 of 568 28 January 2014 at 2:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Il faisait beau aujourd'hui. Je suis heureuse à cause de ça. En janvier, à New York,
ces jours beaux ne sont pas très fréquents. It's funny, you know, I'm doing two Assimils at once and so I can't help but compare. My conclusion: Assimil French is definitely way funnier than Assimil Indonesian. Like, there's not even a contest. Every day it's like: Assimil French: *Whoa ho ho, hilarious story about a diamond-eating rabbit* Assimil Indonesian: "I would like to rent a bicycle or perhaps a scooter. Bicycles are less dangerous than scooters but easier to steal. You can't have this scooter. I like the helmet that goes with your scooter. But I cannot trade my helmet for your scooter. Please remember to return my scooter." Maar goed, ik heb les 26 in Assimil l'indonésien sans peine en les 17 in Assimil French with ease afgemaakt. Ook zit ik nu op pagina 702 in De ontdekking van de hemel. Het gaat wel goed. De ontdekking van de hemel wordt steeds ingewikkelder. Aan het einde van het boek zal ik waarschijnlijk een korte samenvatting maken. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4282 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 475 of 568 28 January 2014 at 2:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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Maar ik dacht dat in Nieuwe York, zoals in Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa, etc., het sneeuw is
de beste ding dat er men van houden kan. Of, tenminste, toen ik naar Québecstad, en ook naar Ottawa, Toronto, en Montréal gereisd ben, er de parken en de centrums door met mijn familie wandelde ik. Dat was in januari, waarin het temperatuur -30 tot -40 graden maakte--in Toronto, het hoogtemperatuur maar maakt -2 C, en dat had ik wat warm gevonden. Daarin tegenstelling tot, in Parijs in de zomer, de Antilliën, enz., waarin het temperatuur 35 graden maakte, ben ik bijna flauwgevallen. Bijna elke dag... Edited by 1e4e6 on 28 January 2014 at 3:10am 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 476 of 568 28 January 2014 at 11:45am | IP Logged | |||||
Corrected your Dutch, the grammar makes it a bit hard to read :) Edited by tarvos on 28 January 2014 at 11:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 477 of 568 28 January 2014 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not sure on this one, but "ces jours beaux" just sounds backwards to me--probably because somewhere in Assimil they talk about "les beaux jours." Your grammar in writing French has looked better than mine so far, so consider this a question rather than a correction. I've definitely seen this difference in Assimil funniness, too, in particular with Italian. In fact, after the first week or two, the text actually apologizes for the fact that the texts have been so boring to that point, because they were selected to illustrate certain grammar inflections (e.g., using the full range of pronouns). And it never got better. The lessons became more like quasi-interesting stories eventually, but nothing resembling a joke. The Hebrew course, on the other hand, is just constant cut-ups, and Russian isn't far behind. Dutch is criticized for being annoying, but they at least are trying to be funny, from what I recall. 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 478 of 568 28 January 2014 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The Hebrew and Russian Assimil have jokes that are hilarious.
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 479 of 568 28 January 2014 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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1e436 - Hmm, misschien heb ik je niet goed verstaan? Heb je gehoord dat New Yorkers echt gek op sneeuw zijn?
:-) Daar ben ik niet zeker van hoor. Voor mijn gevoel is de witte sneeuw inderdaad heel mooi om te zien, maar treinstoringen en vertragingen niet. New Yorkers klagen er constant over. Maar goed, New Yorkers klagen over alles. Montréal is inderdaad veel kouder, dat is misschien de enige reden waarom ik daar niet zou willen wonen. Gelukkig hebben ze die tunnels onder de stad, al heb ik ze zelf niet gezien, ze lijken me wel tof. Wanneer heb je naar Canada gereisd?
D'oh! No, you're absolutely right of course. I remember learning BAGS in high school French now - BAGS standing for Beauty, Age, Goodness, and Size, i.e., all the types of adjectives that go before the verb. Thank you for the correction.
Ha!! Yeah, for a while I thought like - hey, Assimil's supposed to be funny. Maybe I'm just not getting the humor because it's delightfully subtle and dry? But I've definitely ruled out that possibility by now. So glad I'm not alone in this. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 480 of 568 28 January 2014 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ughhh. One day I'll join the Russian club and we'll all have good laughs together. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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