tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 97 of 145 29 September 2014 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
Today I didn't make progresses with Assimil nor other methods.
Instead, since I'm participating at a French choir project, I sung in French and the lesson was in Dutch. I ended up
speaking four languages the same evening. Can't say that I understood everything was said during the lesson of
course, but I noticed that I understand more than two weeks ago. I also had the confidence to talk more in Dutch
then two weeks ago. The other two languages were of course English and Italian.
Then I went to KFC to have a terrible kip salade and I failed speaking in Dutch with the waitress :) I actually failed
also speaking English with her, but that's another story :D I have a couple of perfect excuses for that, like "I was
tired" or "I wasn't concentrated" ;)
Other then speaking French with a native French of the choir, I also had lunch and spoke French (like I do often) with
a Moroccan colleague of mine. I feel French is entering more and more in my life.
I didn't mentioned it but Saturday evening I watched a Spanish movie, "La lengua de las mariposas". I liked it a lot
and understood most of it. Spanish is very beautiful, it sounds like a more poetic version of Italian to my ears. At
least, el castellano. It can be fun watching "Destinos", for what I understood it also focuses in showing the
differences between the different versions of Spanish in the world. Or maybe it would be boring, don't know!
Ho, today I also tried to listen some Dutch radio.
I didn't understand one single entire sentence in 5 minutes, amazing ;)
I'm about to read something in French before to sleep... Arabian Nights should be perfect ;)
Bonne nuit!
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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 98 of 145 30 September 2014 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
Le Néerlandais sans peine: 21 (passive wave)
The New Dutch with Ease: 19 (passive wave)
Methode90: 23
Dutch101: Lower Beginner 7
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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 99 of 145 01 October 2014 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
Le Néerlandais sans peine: 21 (passive wave)
The New Dutch with Ease: 22 (passive wave)
Methode90: 23
Dutch101: Lower Beginner 7
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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 100 of 145 02 October 2014 at 11:37pm | IP Logged |
Today French course day.
A little rest from Dutch. But the news of the day is that I spoke Spanish for the first time in my life.
And I prayed in Spanish with a Colombian guy in a city of the city center in The Netherlands when I was walking on
the way of my French course.
Hahaha just crazy :)
(but I have to admit that prayers in Spanish sound beautiful)
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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 101 of 145 05 October 2014 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
Le Néerlandais sans peine: 21 (passive wave)
The New Dutch with Ease: 25 (passive wave)
Methode90: 23
Dutch101: Lower Beginner 7
Edited by tristano on 05 October 2014 at 10:47pm
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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 102 of 145 06 October 2014 at 11:04am | IP Logged |
According to my computations to finish those courses before Christmas I need to keep a
pace of four lessons per day.
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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 103 of 145 06 October 2014 at 10:17pm | IP Logged |
Le Néerlandais sans peine: 24 (passive wave)
The New Dutch with Ease: 25 (passive wave)
Methode90: 26
Dutch101: Lower Beginner 7
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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 104 of 145 12 October 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
Interesting. I'm not doing any dutch lesson for 6 days in a row (but I had a skype conversation).
I don't feel burned at all, but I had a almost dutch-free week (in the sense of progressing with assimil, m90 and
dutch101).
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