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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 137 of 145 08 December 2014 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, I'm proud to say that I listened to all the Notes in Spanish podcasts (except the
Beginner). I finished my first cycle with Spanish. The second one will be to finish the book Gramatica del uso del Espanol B1/B2. Now I feel the need to change focus (Lithuanian is a background thing, but it is not a priority). It is the moment to come back to my Dutch studies. I'm sure that the frustration I cumulated will disappear as soon as I will be able to express myself freely. I will go through the Assimil course (just the new one) and I will use Bliu Bliu to exercise reading. I need to definetely postpone Russian. I have no space for another target language now. 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 138 of 145 10 December 2014 at 8:17am | IP Logged | ||
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It's very nice to notice then even in the period I didn't studied Dutch I continued to learn Dutch anyway, don't know
if it is for the exposure or for knowledge stabilization. 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 139 of 145 11 December 2014 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just done my French final exam for the B1.2. I finished one hour in advance.
Honestly I haven't done a brilliant written production (unsurprisingly, seen my total lack of exercise in this skill). Edited by tristano on 12 December 2014 at 7:36pm 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 140 of 145 12 December 2014 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dutch: I'm taming the beast.
Spanish: I'm not doing anything. French: more or less like Spanish, but I'm more exposed and I follow the courses. Oh, Spanish will come back with more serious studies soon. Lithuanian: I'm going very slowly (and who does need to run?). 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 141 of 145 12 December 2014 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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well, I terminated the 6 weeks challenge.
my original goal, quite improbable, was consisting in 80 hours of Spanish. Instead, I did 28h of Spanish, 15 of French, 12 of Dutch and an incredible 15 minutes of Latin (... yes I abandoned that project almost immediately). This for a total of almost 56 hours of study, that, considering that I work full time and there are days in which I don't study at all, it's not that bad. The effect of this 6 weeks challenge: improvements in French and Dutch and from only understanding Spanish now I can also speak a little. I have to say, not as big as the effects of my 40 hours of study of Dutch the previous 6wc. 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 142 of 145 17 December 2014 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Actually inspired by @tarvos's post on his log, I think it is the right time to do a review of this year, in order to close
this log and open a new one for the 2015. Overview: I did a lot. Mostly in the wrong direction. I learned how not to learn a language. I studied consistently three languages, I dabbled with many more. The ones I can already speak: English Still my best foreign language, despite the very few study I made on it. I'm more confident then before, but active vocabulary and grammar still suffer. More or less B2. I will probably study something in the 2015; not sure about it anyway. French I studied a little bit of French in the Middle school, then 18 years of nothing. I started A1, now I'm B1. I will study this language also in the 2015. The ones I can more or less speak Spanish I studied consistently Spanish for a couple of months or something less. I can already go to Spain and talk to people, but thank you to the close relation to Italian. I think I'm something like (maybe a little less than) A2 in active and B2 in passive skills. I love this language and I will for sure study it also in the 2015. Dutch Joy and pain. I need to learn this language to improve my experience in The Netherlands (both personal and career wise). I started A0+, now I'm somewhere around A2. I will definitely study this language in the 2015. The ones I started but dropped German I will wait to reach a good level in Dutch before to start again this language. Not a priority in the 2015. Norwegian I will probably study just one Scandinavian language (other than Icelandic). Unless I would move in Norway or Denmark, this language will probably be Swedish. None of those languages are a priority in the 2015. Mandarin Too much demanding. I don't feel ready yet. Not a priority for the 2015. Icelandic A little bit like Mandarin. Maybe less demanding, but for sure less useful. But still a very fascinating language that I would like to learn (passively is enough unless I will move in Iceland). Persian One of the most beautiful languages. I wasn't ready when I start with it. Not a priority in the 2015 but I don't exclude to study it at a certain point of the year. Toki Pona Had some fun, but that's it. Also I started to study Lithuanian. It is not a priority in the 2015 but I didn't stop to study it. I will figure out what to do with this language. For sure, it is a very fascinating one. Languages that I would like to start in the 2015: Russian This is a huge one. I'm delaying in order to start more accomplished in my top 3 languages in priority (Dutch, French and Spanish). Then there is a huge list of languages but I will figure it out at that point. Two of the languages I'm being fascinated by right now are Turkish and Hungarian, but I might end up doing something totally different or pickin one between Persian, Swedish and Icelandic. Let's see. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 143 of 145 17 December 2014 at 7:39am | IP Logged | ||
Have you considered lang-8? It feels like you would benefit from it, especially as you're not at the stage where writing every single sentence is hard. You can express pretty much anything, so this should be a stress-free way to improve your accuracy and style. (No offence meant, of course. I'm not saying my English is perfect.) 2 persons have 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 144 of 145 18 December 2014 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi @Serpent,
no offense at all! It is actually a good advice (I'm testing it these days). I never learnt English formally and this is clearly visible when I wrote text even though I write with the autopilot. It is also a very useful resource for every language (provided there are enough subscribed native speakers). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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