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numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 9 of 19 09 July 2015 at 11:23am \| IP Logged
	Portuguese Cheguei à aula 25 de Assimil. As aulas agora começam a ser mais difíceis - há algumas palavras que não conheço e os dialogos tornam-se mais longos. Mas ainda tudo bem - consigo seguir com três aulas por dia. Talvez logo terei que ir mais devagar. Edited by numerodix on 09 July 2015 at 11:24am 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 10 of 19 11 July 2015 at 12:27pm \| IP Logged
	Portuguese Assimil lesson 32. The bizarre subjunctive that looks like the infinitive! In my reading I have totally not been able to figure out how this works, so I'm glad we're there already with Assimil (as opposed to leaving it to the end). Incidentally, it's interesting how most of the content so far has been review (with some nice clarifications along the way). The subjunctive is the first real new thing I've encountered. It makes me think my input-early-and-often based approach to learning a language from the same language family is spot on. It makes Assimil more efficient, because much of it is well known and I have a lot of time to focus on the few oddities that I still don't understand. Back when I first did Assimil for Italian I was a bit overwhelmed with the number of new things in each lesson. 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 11 of 19 13 July 2015 at 1:43pm \| IP Logged
	Just discovered bliubliu. It's very appealing in terms of ui, I like the little animations and animated transitions all over the place. I don't really get how it would fit into my learning process, though. I try the various categories (jokes, short texts, books) and I'm bored after a few minutes. For me it lacks an overarching structure of some sort, just counting words isn't that insightful. Also, it only handles words. There is no selecting/translating of expressions. Edited by numerodix on 13 July 2015 at 1:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 12 of 19 13 July 2015 at 5:08pm \| IP Logged
	Dutch First Dutch video! I didn't think I would be able to do this one spontaneously, so I wrote it as an article first, got some feedback on lang8 and finally recorded the video. It came out not too bad. Bilan jusqu'ici: 3 videos en français 2 videos en italien 1 video en néerlandais 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 13 of 19 13 July 2015 at 8:06pm \| IP Logged
	Portuguese Assimil lesson 35. I have to slow down the pace from 3 lessons a day to 2. They have gotten much longer and it takes more effort to go through them now. In any case the active phase is coming soon, so I'd never be able to sustain this pace anyway. An odd thing has happened, though. I don't know if this is just an off day for me, or if it's more than that. But the last few lessons don't feel that interesting to me anymore. I don't feel the same curiosity and excitement about the language. We'll see what happens the rest of the week... 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 14 of 19 14 July 2015 at 2:48pm \| IP Logged
	French Holy breakthrough, Batman! This is by far the best video I've made so far. It wasn't completely spontaneous - I did try to tell the story once without the camera to prime the needed vocabulary. But I only did one take, I got through it very well and it had more energy and authentic expression than any video to date. I am starting to love this! Linky here 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 15 of 19 14 July 2015 at 6:05pm \| IP Logged
	I'm quuuuuuuuite tempted to start peeking at Mandarin already. Portuguese used to be exotic, but ain't no more... You see there is this Fnac (media store) in Brussels that is kinda the nationwide Assimil HQ where they have tooons of languages. Apart from Assimil they also have a good selection of Harrap and other publishers. And the last time I was there I was leafing through some cute Chinese calligraphy workbooks hm... I might just jump on that Brussels train one of these days. 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 16 of 19 15 July 2015 at 7:03pm \| IP Logged
	Dutch Finally ranted to my heart's content about the Dutch language. What a load off! Linky here Edited by numerodix on 15 July 2015 at 7:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful

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numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 9 of 19 09 July 2015 at 11:23am \| IP Logged
	Portuguese Cheguei à aula 25 de Assimil. As aulas agora começam a ser mais difíceis - há algumas palavras que não conheço e os dialogos tornam-se mais longos. Mas ainda tudo bem - consigo seguir com três aulas por dia. Talvez logo terei que ir mais devagar. Edited by numerodix on 09 July 2015 at 11:24am 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 10 of 19 11 July 2015 at 12:27pm \| IP Logged
	Portuguese Assimil lesson 32. The bizarre subjunctive that looks like the infinitive! In my reading I have totally not been able to figure out how this works, so I'm glad we're there already with Assimil (as opposed to leaving it to the end). Incidentally, it's interesting how most of the content so far has been review (with some nice clarifications along the way). The subjunctive is the first real new thing I've encountered. It makes me think my input-early-and-often based approach to learning a language from the same language family is spot on. It makes Assimil more efficient, because much of it is well known and I have a lot of time to focus on the few oddities that I still don't understand. Back when I first did Assimil for Italian I was a bit overwhelmed with the number of new things in each lesson. 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 11 of 19 13 July 2015 at 1:43pm \| IP Logged
	Just discovered bliubliu. It's very appealing in terms of ui, I like the little animations and animated transitions all over the place. I don't really get how it would fit into my learning process, though. I try the various categories (jokes, short texts, books) and I'm bored after a few minutes. For me it lacks an overarching structure of some sort, just counting words isn't that insightful. Also, it only handles words. There is no selecting/translating of expressions. Edited by numerodix on 13 July 2015 at 1:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 12 of 19 13 July 2015 at 5:08pm \| IP Logged
	Dutch First Dutch video! I didn't think I would be able to do this one spontaneously, so I wrote it as an article first, got some feedback on lang8 and finally recorded the video. It came out not too bad. Bilan jusqu'ici: 3 videos en français 2 videos en italien 1 video en néerlandais 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 13 of 19 13 July 2015 at 8:06pm \| IP Logged
	Portuguese Assimil lesson 35. I have to slow down the pace from 3 lessons a day to 2. They have gotten much longer and it takes more effort to go through them now. In any case the active phase is coming soon, so I'd never be able to sustain this pace anyway. An odd thing has happened, though. I don't know if this is just an off day for me, or if it's more than that. But the last few lessons don't feel that interesting to me anymore. I don't feel the same curiosity and excitement about the language. We'll see what happens the rest of the week... 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 14 of 19 14 July 2015 at 2:48pm \| IP Logged
	French Holy breakthrough, Batman! This is by far the best video I've made so far. It wasn't completely spontaneous - I did try to tell the story once without the camera to prime the needed vocabulary. But I only did one take, I got through it very well and it had more energy and authentic expression than any video to date. I am starting to love this! Linky here 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 15 of 19 14 July 2015 at 6:05pm \| IP Logged
	I'm quuuuuuuuite tempted to start peeking at Mandarin already. Portuguese used to be exotic, but ain't no more... You see there is this Fnac (media store) in Brussels that is kinda the nationwide Assimil HQ where they have tooons of languages. Apart from Assimil they also have a good selection of Harrap and other publishers. And the last time I was there I was leafing through some cute Chinese calligraphy workbooks hm... I might just jump on that Brussels train one of these days. 1 person has voted this message useful
numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: English^C2, Norwegian, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin	Message 16 of 19 15 July 2015 at 7:03pm \| IP Logged
	Dutch Finally ranted to my heart's content about the Dutch language. What a load off! Linky here Edited by numerodix on 15 July 2015 at 7:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful