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| Tilia Diglot Groupie Denmark Joined 4466 days ago 48 posts - 68 votes  Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 12 18 October 2012 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello. I am new here. I found these introduction treads so I thought I’d better make
one. I joined the forum because I am learning Spanish. I study the language on my own, but I did not start out that way. I had Spanish classes in secondary school (Gymnasium) in Denmark. After that I didn't really use it for some years and I forgot a lot of it. But then in the last part of my biology study at university I got the change to go to Ecuador to make my master degree project and suddenly I needed my Spanish. I went to Ecuador together with two other biology students. We started out with a two-week Spanish course in Quito. I was impressed with how efficient a two-week course with a private teacher, can be, at least when you have a basis to start from as I had. From feeling I had forgotten almost everything to being able to communicate well enough to get along. It was very different from the way I used to learn language in school. From Quito we went to a small community in the rainforrest where I gathered data for my study (an ethno-botanical study of palms) which required that I spoke to the locals. Most of them knew only Spanish and Quechua. A few where eager to train their English, but that was always on a low level. We spend about two months there. After I came home from Ecuador I thought It would be a shame if I lost the Spanish skills that I had acquired so I began to review a deck of flash card now and then to check if I still remembered the words and I found Spanish videos on the internet or talked to myself in Spanish. In time that evolved into a desire to not just maintain my Spanish, but to improve it. In periods I have focused a lot on it in others I have done nearly nothing about it. Now I have decided that try out a more systematic approach. I have realized that I would really like to get to some level of fluency in Spanish at some point. This forum has inspired me a lot and I will try to take some of the good advice given in here. It's nice to hear about other people learning languages on their own (I feel less alone with it that way). Also I think I have reached a point where I really need to train some "output" as you would call it in here. That is my story with regard to my TL (See I am starting to decipher the code in this forum :-)) Hope It wasn't too long. I'm awed at the amount of experience and knowledge about languages that is gathered in this forum, both about linguistics and practical learning methods. My native language is Danish and I would like to offer my help to anyone who is learning my language. Maybe do some tandem learning with someone who knows Spanish. I would like to start writing with someone in Spanish (or maybe I should start a log in Spanish, I'm not sure about that ...) By the way, about me: I am a biologist (currently without a job) and an active scout leader. I like outdoor activities in general, I love nature, I like all kinds of creative activities/ handicraft (from knitting to drawing).I also like reading books (especially fantasy) and studying Spanish :-). Edit: I won't mind corrections for my English, I may have some bad habits that I am unawere of. Edited by Tilia on 19 October 2012 at 1:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 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 12 19 October 2012 at 12:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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Welcome to one more Dane - velkommen til en dansker mere Edited by Iversen on 19 October 2012 at 11:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tilia Diglot Groupie Denmark Joined 4466 days ago 48 posts - 68 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 12 19 October 2012 at 1:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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Tak (Thank you) Iversen. Is there many Danes in here? I have not noticed a lot of posts
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 4 of 12 19 October 2012 at 1:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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Welcome to the forum, from the former Dansk Vestindien. Tilia! Lang 8 is the site to go to to find skype language exchanges and to post in Spanish and be corrected by natives. Of course most people, as you know, are looking for help with English. Still, there may be some people looking to learn Danish. I'm sure there are Spanish-speaking immigrants in Denmark who would welcome such an opportunity.
If I can do anything to help you, please ask. Edited by iguanamon on 19 October 2012 at 1:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 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 5 of 12 19 October 2012 at 2:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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There are a number of Danes (and other Scandinavians) here, but even more important: there are actually people who study Danish - try to look at the language logs
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| Tilia Diglot Groupie Denmark Joined 4466 days ago 48 posts - 68 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 12 19 October 2012 at 2:54am | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you. Your'e from the fomer Dansk Vestindien! Cool! Is there any leftover cultural influence from Denmark or any Danish words seeped into the language? Thank you for the tip about Lang 8. I will try that.
I have noticed. :-) I saw that there is at least one log in Danish. Edited by Tilia on 19 October 2012 at 3:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 7 of 12 19 October 2012 at 3:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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There is much Danish influence here in architecture and some in the culture. There is no influence on English here from Danish of which I am aware. The Danes were always a small minority in the islands. Plantation owners in colonial times were primarily British. The dominant language here has almost always been English instead of Danish. In fact, we even drive on the left here.
Still, we do have a weekly charter flight full of Danish tourists during the Winter season. It would be nice to know some Danish and surprise them, but then again- they'll all speak English anyway, more or less. If you visited here you could use both your English and Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 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 8 of 12 27 October 2012 at 8:15am | IP Logged | |||||
Velkommen her i sprog forumet! Welcome in the language forum. Tre âr siden begyndte jeg at laere dansk. I started learning Danish three years ago. Kaerlig hilsen, Kind regards, Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 27 October 2012 at 8:15am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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