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| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5055 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 16 25 February 2011 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I think that you should make another video, this time longer. I don't know how your
Russian is, because you didn't say much in the video. What about your Swedish, Spanish and Icelandic, do you study these at university too? What's your main focus? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5088 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic | Message 10 of 16 25 February 2011 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Swedish is more of a flirt. I can read good enough to go through newspapers and understand what's going on. Icelandic, I've been to the country so I studied the language for some 6 months before going there. I'm able to express my basic needs and wants, ask where stuff is, ask for a price, and act politely. Spanish, I've had 3 years of courses at school. I can help customers in Spanish at work but my sentences will be a little broken. I can read Spanish pretty good though. My main focus is really Russian, right now. I'll probably go back to the other languages later on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5055 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 16 01 March 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cool, I think Iceland is a very exotic place with snow, volcanoes and "hot tubs". How
long were you there, just traveling around or what? Yeah Spanish is kind of something everyone knows or should know, it's kind of in the background I guess sometimes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5088 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic | Message 12 of 16 02 March 2011 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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So here's another video. I just went on saying random stuff about an imaginary family, as if i were pointing out people on a picture. I had to write a text that went roughly along those lines for my course, but when I read a written text, I tend to stutter a bit - so in this video, I simply went as close to "free form" as I could get. Maybe some stuff won't make sense, and no, меня зовут не Александр.
Keep in mind that my level of russian isn't high at all right now, and I haven't even learned how to express possession (I have a wife, I have a son, etc). That means I'm stuck to the "point and tell" formulations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Z1-gQj42M Edited by FrostBlast on 02 March 2011 at 8:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5522 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 13 of 16 05 March 2011 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not bad at all from pronunciation standpoint. Seems that you've got good ear, keep
listening to native resources and you get it before long. Definitely promising. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sb Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4995 days ago 16 posts - 15 votes | Message 14 of 16 12 March 2011 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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not bad, keep going
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| sb Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4995 days ago 16 posts - 15 votes | Message 15 of 16 12 March 2011 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you adress to someone you don't know or you adress to an audience I think it sounds
better to say 'zdravstvujte' instead of 'zdravstvuj' 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ExtravaganZza Bilingual Triglot Newbie Ukraine Joined 4990 days ago 7 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 16 of 16 17 March 2011 at 11:41am | IP Logged | ||
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"better to say 'zdravstvujte' instead of zdravstvuj "
------ It is definitely so. In fact "zdravstvuj" isn`t used much (at all?) nowadays. Just use "privet" for informal and 'zdravstvujte' or 'dobriy den`' 'dobroye utro' 'dobriy vecher` for formal 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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