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| ChrisBroholm Triglot Newbie Denmark actualfluency.com Joined 3771 days ago 17 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English, Danish*, German Studies: Russian, Esperanto | Message 1 of 23 04 March 2014 at 1:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello fellow linguaphiles!
I was greatly inspired to join this message board by my fellow countryman IVERSEN, to whom I credit with not only finding the forum, but also starting my own log. I also frequently blog someplace else about my experiences, but I figured a working log on just how the day-to-day language learning was for me, wouldn't go amiss. I'm 25 years old and born, raised and currently residing in Denmark. I attended international school and currently study a BA in English, which means that I consider my English level to be almost equivalent to my Danish. Excuse me by the way if you notice any grammar or punctuation mistakes, I prefer to write these logs in one line of thought as I think that makes them more 'real'. After having procrastinated about language learning for the better half of 10 years I decided that 2014 was the year to finally begin going outside my comfort zone and begin that journey towards multilingualism or hyperpolyglottism as is the word often thrown around these days. The safe choice for my 4th/6th language (depending if you count practical fluency in Swedish and Norwegian as languages) would have probably been something like Spanish, French or Italian. I have been introduced to both French and Spanish in school and Italian is highly similar in structure and alphabet. However, I decided to be aggressive and go with a harder one. Note that I don't necessarily believe that any language is inherently 'hard' to learn, but relatively speaking learning a language with a different alphabet to your own, has to be harder than picking one that is using your alphabet. So I went with Russian, and I'm currently working my way through the Michel Thomas course, as I believe it is a good method to get a basic introduction on sentence level. Once I've finished that programme I will branch out to sites like Biubiu (sp?) where I can practice not only my vocabulary in practice, but also train my eyes in actually reading the new funky letters that Cyrillic offers. I do know how they are all pronounced now, but it's still hard to look at cyrillic and just immediately get the sound - that's where the practice comes in. THEN I will ultimately seek out people who are skilled in Russian and ask them to practice with me. I live in a fairly international dormitory, so finding someone with Russian proficiency shouldn't be hard. Apart from my Blog and this Log I also have this dream about starting a weekly language learning podcast that could be of entertainment and benefit to the people like me who are interested in language learning, ninja tricks and just general thematic entertainment to keep us company on this language learning road. That was all for me in my introductory log entry, I'm terribly sorry about the length, but now you know everything that's worth knowing. If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them here or via email....thanks! Edited by ChrisBroholm on 04 March 2014 at 1:50am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| IlonaS Bilingual Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 3772 days ago 25 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Russian*, Estonian* Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, French, English | Message 2 of 23 04 March 2014 at 11:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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Good luck!
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4488 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3 of 23 04 March 2014 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Velkommen til forumet Chris. Russian is a great choice, and I wish you the best of luck. I just had a look at your blog, which seems very nice and entertaining as well. I look forward to reading your contributions.
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| ChrisBroholm Triglot Newbie Denmark actualfluency.com Joined 3771 days ago 17 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English, Danish*, German Studies: Russian, Esperanto | Message 4 of 23 04 March 2014 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you so much! It means a lot to me to have the support of like-minded people. I'll be updating this today once I've had my daily dose of Russian, I realized my first entry contained absolutely nothing about actual language learning that day, oh well, I'll make up for it today. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChrisBroholm Triglot Newbie Denmark actualfluency.com Joined 3771 days ago 17 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English, Danish*, German Studies: Russian, Esperanto | Message 5 of 23 04 March 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Today I studied my Michel Thomas for approximately 45 minutes. I'm a big believer in
doing a little bit of learning every day, rather than cramming in a lot of studying infrequently. Today the lessons dealt with refreshing the pronouns, how they reacted with some common constructions. It also continued with the yeest construction (there is) all of this is a little confusing for English readers as "I have" is constructed as "By me" I have (U Minja) My (Minjere) We have (U Nas) Our (Nam) You have (U Vas) Your (Vam) Another hard element of russian that shows up now is how the pronoun is changed depending on the gender of the object that follows. Also the pronouns are also very similar, which makes confusion easy. It's definitely getting harder, but I feel like I can answer the teacher correctly 9/10 times, now its just getting used to the new structure and adding on more sentences. Hopefully soon I will be able to post micro updates in Russian :) Rest of the day I'll work on writing more content for my blog and probably relax a bit in the evening. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5696 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 6 of 23 05 March 2014 at 8:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hallo Chris,
Russisch kann ich nicht, aber ich kann dir gerne mit Deutsch helfen im Austausch zu deinen Verbesserungen meines Dänisch. Als Tandem sozusagen! Viel Erfolg mit deinem Log! Viele Grüße Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChrisBroholm Triglot Newbie Denmark actualfluency.com Joined 3771 days ago 17 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English, Danish*, German Studies: Russian, Esperanto | Message 7 of 23 05 March 2014 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hej Fasulye! Tak for din kommentar, det ville være mig en fornøjelse at arbejde sammen med dig på den måde :-) ** Danke für deinen Kommentar, es würde mir freuen mit dir zusammen arbeite. Ich bin ausser form auf Deutsch, vielleicht sollte dass einen neuen projekt für mich sein. Ich bin sicher, dass ich, mit ein bischen übung, schnell wieder korrekt Deutsch schreibe können. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| IlonaS Bilingual Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 3772 days ago 25 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Russian*, Estonian* Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, French, English | Message 8 of 23 05 March 2014 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
Good. You have (U Vas=У вас or U Tebya=У тебя) Edited by IlonaS on 05 March 2014 at 4:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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