blindfire1 Newbie United States Joined 3949 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 1 of 5 22 January 2014 at 4:00am | IP Logged |
Hey everyone!
I'm Phillip, I have been a reader of discussions on here for a while now. So, I am just signing up now finally. I am currently learning Russian. I decided to start learning it because I taught myself the Cyrillic alphabet a few years ago and wanted to continue from that. I also am interested in learning other Slavic languages and Russian would help with those. I am using Assimil, New Penguin Russian Course, and I did some Pimsleur (but I dropped it because it kept throwing numbers at me too early on and overwhelmed me). And I watch movies, youtube videos, some watch some news in Russian to help out.
I am also learning Spanish for a while now. I started it mostly because my mother's side of the family speaks it and she never taught me. At the moment I would describe myself as at a basic conversational level now. I did all units of Pimsleur, my mother helped me out, and I had some immersion spending a month in a half in Panama. I still struggle with a gringo accent and knowing exactly what to say, since I think Pimsleur just had me responding to prompts given in English. I try to use this language as much as I can to get better.
There are plenty of other languages I want to learn in the future. Some day I will start those.
I apologize if that was bit too long.
And hopefully I will get to know some of you!
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6691 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 5 22 January 2014 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
It was not too long. Welcome to the forum.
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Fiona S. Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3949 days ago 26 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch* Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 3 of 5 26 January 2014 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
Welcome!
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BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4677 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian
| Message 4 of 5 26 January 2014 at 7:29am | IP Logged |
Welcome to the Forums Phillip!
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ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7226 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog
| Message 5 of 5 26 January 2014 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
Welcome! I'm still trying to sort out that "bI" sound :)
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