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| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 113 of 145 29 October 2014 at 7:37pm | IP Logged |
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I'd like to hear your opinion on Lingua Latina per se Illustrata when you'll finish
it. I was interested in starting studying latin myself since it would be quite useful for me (I study philology and linguistics, amongst other things), but having little time to dedicate on a 3rd language I was wondering what the best method could be. Anyway, good luck! 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 114 of 145 29 October 2014 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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thanks!
sure, I'll let you know :) 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 115 of 145 01 November 2014 at 10:58am | IP Logged |
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What is happening right now.
Well, something really good. Thanks to the ton of input I'm consuming in Spanish every day, I caught myself to think in Spanish without even make it on purpose, and this night I had a dream in Spanish! Also my book "Gramática del uso del español B1/B2" arrived and I started to study it (and do the exercises). I finished the podcast "Notes in Spanish Intermediate" and I'm already deep inside "Notes in Spanish Advanced". I will proceed with SpanishPod101 beginner seasons the fastest I can to get the information I'm not able to pick alone (but skipping the grammar explanations) in order to be able to start the Intermediate seasons as soon as I finished with Notes in Spanish Advanced. The beginners contain too much English and there is much more Spanish in the Intermediate. Notes in Spanish * is, instead, completely in Spanish but they don't provide a lot of explanations. I'm continuing with Lingua Latina for Latin. I'm dedicating myself to understand the text more than to understand the grammar. I will probably go through the whole book (maybe even the second one) before to study grammar more actively. With Dutch, I'm playing with Lyricstraining to improve my listening abilities. There are lyrics that are simple to understand and lyrics that are more difficult because they contain a lot of words that I don't know. Can be interesting sometimes working with the lyrics and the translation. French: I need to study more grammar in order to do well at the oncoming grammar test (and improve my grammar obviously). 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 116 of 145 01 November 2014 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Also. I tried to watch Destinos but I gave up. Too easy and unchallenging, even the last episode. I don't doubt that I
can still learn different things but it would be rather boring. I'm literally eating Notes from Spanish so I guess I need something else because the beginner serie of SpanishPod101 is very long and I cannot make it to go trough it all before finishing Notes from Spanish Advanced. 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 117 of 145 01 November 2014 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
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Just discovered that in addition to Notes In Spanish Intermediate and Advanced there are also Notes in Spanish (I
don't know why I wrote it "Notes FROM Spanish" several times... well.) Gold and Notes from Spain. So other material! I'm also having fun with "Que vida mas triste" :) And discovered que también me gusta mucho una band qui se llama "Héroes del silencio", in addition to "Mago de Oz" and "Celtas cortos". 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ijsn Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 3736 days ago 12 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 118 of 145 02 November 2014 at 12:05am | IP Logged |
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Maybe you could try to listen to Spanish Podcast episodes. I've listened to some of them back in 2012 and they are good. They speak only in Spanish.
www.spanishpodcast.org As a matter of fact, I'll start to listen to them again. 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 119 of 145 02 November 2014 at 10:38am | IP Logged |
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Hi ijsn, thank you for the advice. I gave it a try, unfortunately it is painfully slow.
I prefer to use full speed material as I have already a good comprehension of the language. What I love of Notes in Spanish is that every time there is an unusual word they explain what does it means, but they talk at normal speed. 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 120 of 145 08 November 2014 at 2:40am | IP Logged |
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So it seems that Notes from Spain is in English (but not Notes in Spanish Gold).
I will pass directly to the intermediate podcast of Spanishpod101 to listen during my moves. Today I spoke for the first time in Spanish with an Italian friend and I discover that I'm already quite comfortable to pronounce Spanish and to use high frequency vocabulary (thanks to all my listening). Much more than I'm comfortable with Dutch. :( I'm having some vacation days in Italy and I should study French. And Spanish. And Dutch. The truth is that I'm never at home so I'm not studying at all and next Thursday I have the French grammar test at the Alliance :( 1 person has voted this message useful |
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