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| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5509 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes  Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 49 of 117 25 July 2010 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Progress made this week in Italian:
- Assimil perfectionnement: lesson 11 - Book Partire: page 31 (I'm really enjoying it so far and I understand almost everything, not every word of course, but I pretty much get the meaning of every sentence) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5509 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 50 of 117 02 August 2010 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Progress made this week in Italian:
- Assimil perfectionnement: lesson 16 - Book Partire: page 54 - Italian phrasebook: page 160 Progess made in Dutch: Because I stopped studying Dutch for a few months in order to focus on Italian, I'm going to reread what I have done in Assimil so far. I had made it up to lesson 66 and I'm going to go through everything once again to make sure it is fresh in my mind before I continue on with it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5509 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 51 of 117 09 August 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Progress made this week in Italian:
- Assimil perfectionnement: lesson 20 - Book Partire: page 84 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5509 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 52 of 117 16 August 2010 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Progress made this week in Italian:
- Assimil perfectionnement: lesson 24 - Book Partire: page 116 I'll be in Italy on a mini-trip next week-end, so there's another chance to speak Italian and buy some more books. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5509 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 53 of 117 29 August 2010 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Progress made in Italian the last two weeks:
- Assimil perfectionnement: lesson 27 - Book Partire: finished (that's the first book I read in Italian, I would say that I understood about 80% of it and thoroughly enjoyed it) - Phrasebook: page 180 I spent the last weekend in Rimini and San Marino (which I absolutely loved), so I practiced my Italian as much as possible with hotel receptionists, waiters, shopkeepers, bus drivers, etc. I know that I still make mistakes, but I feel quite confident speaking Italian now, I understand what is said to me and people understand me in return (and they keep speaking in Italian without switching to English, which I consider quite positive). I also bought 3 books in Italian and I think that I will concentrate more on reading in Italian during the next months. I'm a bookworm anyway! I absolutely need to get started with Dutch again, as I will spend some time in the Netherlands between October and December and want to arrive prepared. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5187 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 54 of 117 30 August 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Nice to hear you are progressing fast with Italian and I’m sure your level is quite good. But I just wanted to point out that, unfortunately, the general knowledge of English is so poor in my country (apart from people employed in the tourism sector and few other exceptions), that one shouldn’t be surprised if Italians prefer to let the ‘foreigner’ struggle with the little Italian he/she knows (not your case, obviously) rather than try and string together a couple of words in English themselves. This makes them seem quite welcoming and patient with language learners compared to other nationalities (at least according to stereotypes), but the truth is that actually they have no other option, I’m afraid! Anyway, are you still aiming for the B2 exam in November? How’s the preparation for that going? Keep up the good work and in bocca al lupo! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5509 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 55 of 117 16 September 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry for the lack of update lately, I've been a bit ill and it seems that when I'm on antibiotics and painkillers my brain just doesn't function for language learning, so hardly any progress in Italian. Fortunately I'm better now and ready to attack again.
The good news is: the exam results are in and as you can guess from the nice B1 next to the word Italian on my profile, I have passed the Certificato di Conoscenza della Lingua Italiana livello 2! I'm really happy with the result. Here are my scores: Prova di comprensione della lettura: 32/40 Prova di produzione di testi scritti 26/40 Prova di comprensione dell'ascolto 34/40 Prova orale (32/40) Overall result is B (buono) To answer Emme's question above (sorry it took me so long to answer), yes, I do plan to sit the B2 in November. I have a preparation book with past exams that I am going to go through and I have to work on my grammar as well. Since I scored the lowest result in the writing part, I am going to work on that and practice writing on some typical exam subjects. I'm also going to read more in Italian, I have a pile of books and some magazines waiting for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5687 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 56 of 117 16 September 2010 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Iwwersetzerin!
My congratulation for you with your exam results! That's well done and it's precisely the level of exam I would like to do one time in the future... So now you have decent basis of knowledge to prepare the next step exam (= B2). Nice to hear that you had the chance to speak your target language in Italy itself. I myself have never had this opportunity. All the best for your next step on your learning programm to reach a high level of Italian! Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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