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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6077 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 49 of 236 07 March 2013 at 10:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Gehirnströme werden mit 'ner EEG gemessen, soweit ich weiß...
edit: Ich habe gerade recherchiert, EEG = "Elektroenzephalografie". Wie gut, dass es Abkürzungen gibt! Edited by Sunja on 07 March 2013 at 10:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4836 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 50 of 236 07 March 2013 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
This was a very difficult and demanding text, so please don't be disappointed about my numerous corrections. I have phrased everything the way a native speaker would put it. One point that struck me was your use of "als" when "wenn" is required. "Als" refers to a point back in time, while "wenn" refers to a certain occasion or a condition. It's a bit different from "when" and "if", because "wenn" can mean both. Compare: Als ich jung war, ging ich jeden Tag spazieren. (When I was young...) Wenn ich dich sehe, bin ich froh. (When I see you...) Wenn ich jung wäre, würde ich spazieren gehen. (If I were young...) If you have any other questions about my corrections, please let me know. EDIT: By the way, EEG is neuter ('das EEG'), because the abbreviation normally stands for 'Elektroenzephalogramm', which is neuter as well. Similarly: 'das EKG' (Elektrokardiogramm) and colloquially even 'das MRT' although the abbreviation stands for a feminine word (Magnetresonanztomographie). I assume people who know what it stands for prefer 'die MRT'. A more common word with the same meaning is 'Kernspintomographie' (short: 'Kernspin'). Edited by Josquin on 07 March 2013 at 3:28pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4614 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 51 of 236 07 March 2013 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Sunja: maybe I should delve into medical terminology as an antidote to my recent reading/viewing. Although I hope I won't actually ever need it...
@Josquin: Thank you. I was not at all surprised by your numerous corrections. I may have been overly ambitious with this one :). The "teaching a robot to think like a person"/"program them to carry out commands" parts were such a struggle for me, and your versions are so straightforward and clear. Brilliant! Your corrections and explanations are a basis for follow-on study and review, so they are extremely valuable to me, although unfortunately I cannot promise to not make the same mistakes again: understanding the proper usage in theory is no guarantee of proper usage in everyday communication. Hope your Russian studies are going well! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4836 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 52 of 236 07 March 2013 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, my Russian studies are going quite well, although the beginning of spring in Germany makes me think about other things than languages at the moment. I'm glad you take it as constructive criticism, because I don't intend to show you what you did 'wrong' but what you could do better. I also know understanding in theory is no guarantee for being able to use a concept practically -- I have to experience that regularly with my own languages --, but I hope you can profit from my comments nevertheless.
Weiterhin viel Erfolg! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4614 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 53 of 236 11 March 2013 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Warning: a ramble follows. Enter at your own risk. :) Details in the first post.
The past week was one of experimentation and rethinking. I finished a non-traditional Krimi (won't put any spoilers here, but I rather enjoyed it: Selbs Justiz), then I purposely switched to reading children's books aimed toward ~8-10 year olds. My thought is I'll pick up more vocabulary from context and maybe get more of a Sprachgefühl since I can read these more easily. This experiment is in progress. We'll see what my tolerance is: Matti and Sami wasn't that interesting but had some cool bits in Finnish, the Oskar und Rico adventure was fun, and Iwein Löwenritter is good for reading aloud. I tried the reading aloud idea from AlOlaf. I think I'll need to do more of this to evaluate or realize its usefulness. AlOlaf suggested it is good for alerting one to what one finds difficult to pronounce: wichtigste is one of mine, for example. My results from a diagnostic test have pointed me somewhere I don't particularly want to go, although I must: listening, reading, vocabulary B2 :) writing and grammar B1:( I must focus more on these areas, but I really don't want to. My inner three-year-old is rebelling...Having said that, Sunja's acceptance of Reineke's Challenge to do 100 pieces of writing has had an effect on me similar to a long-time smoker finding out his/her smoking buddy has successfully quit smoking. No, I don't smoke, but I do avoid writing. No more! I'm already doing a Superchallenge with books and movies, so I do not promise to do 100 pieces of writing. However, I do plan to write more in German, whether with penpals, on Lang-8, or here. Josquin, my apologies: I will be torturing you with Leichtsinnfehler. Your generosity is truly appreciated. Aus Fehlern wird man klug, oder? I certainly hope so. Speaking of a mistakes, here's a funny one: I was assigned to write out a recipe as a class assignment. I did so, but using a weird conjugation. Instead of using the imperative or infinitive, somehow I decided to use the outdated form, "man schale die Kartoffeln" ... throughout the whole blasted thing. In writing, I end up making things more complicated than necessary, which trips me up. I do that in English also, probably. To write more, I will use the Writing Topics from Sprachprofi in the thread: 100 Essays-topics http://how-to-learn-any language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32201&PN=1 I tried Memrise this week and found I can tolerate it better than anki, although there are some glitches. The timing is a bit off , some of the answers are in Spanish (luckily for me, that works out ok) or the English translation is weird for the prepositions: instead of "to apologize for" you get "to apologize from", but it is allowing me to work on verbs + prepositions in a relatively pain-free way. Yes, grammar, another area for me to work on. I did some work on particles (denn, aber, ja, wohl etc.)this week as well. March is off to a good start. Ok, enough already. Onto some writing: Topic: Do you like the town you're living in? What makes it a good place to live? Ich finde die Stadt, in der ich wohne, großartig. Ich wohne und wurde in San Francisco in den USA geboren. Meine Heimatstadt hat nicht nur eine schöne Landschaft, aber auch viele kulterelle Möglichkeiten, die man genießen kann. Jedes Jahr kommen viele Touristen nach San Francisco und fahren mit der Kabelbahn und fotografieren die Brücken oder die viktorianischen Häusern. Mir gefallen die Sehenswürdigkeiten auch, obwohl komischerweise habe ich noch nie Alcatraz besichtigt. Der Bereich ist klein, aber man kann viel darin tun. Andere amerikanischen Großstädte sind vielleicht mundäner oder glanzvoller aber meine Meinung nach fehlen sie die Gemütlichkeit und Schönheit unserer Stadt. Außer der Umgebung, finde ich das offene Umfeld toll. Weil unsere Stadt multikulturell und tolerant ist, haben wir viele Gelegenheiten, verschiedene Leute kennenzulernen, damit wir andere Ideen und Erfahrungen vertraut machen können. Wir haben viele prima Restaurants, Museen und Vergnügungsstätte. Natürlich gibt es auch Probleme: die Obdachlosigkeit, die Elitisierung der Wohngegenden, die Pflege der Infrastruktur, Straßenverkehr, Straftat, Armut, usw. Ich gebe zu, dass ich parteiisch bin, aber ich finde meine Stadt wunderschön! Edited by BAnna on 11 March 2013 at 2:10am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4350 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 54 of 236 11 March 2013 at 8:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Good to see a team member making progress. You put me to shame BAnna! Thanks for the topics thread.
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6077 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 55 of 236 11 March 2013 at 9:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the great topic! I think I'll use it to practice with :)
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4836 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 56 of 236 11 March 2013 at 11:11am | IP Logged | ||
"Landschaft" means "landscape" or "countryside". You can't say a city has a "Landschaft". I had to think for a better word and chose "Ansicht", but I'm not absolutely sure whether that's the perfect solution. You could simply say: "Meine Stadt ist schön" or "schön anzusehen". I think that would sound better. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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