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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1105 of 1511 02 February 2014 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This weekend got off to a lazy start for languages. I have managed to finish the
passive wave of Hebrew with Ease but am now forced to complete the active wave. Somehow my mood is in one of its downswings (those are really unpleasant) so I think I've used up my energy today (I just spent it composing a German/Korean letter to a penpal, with whom I plan to exchange Korean for Dutch/English/German/whatever else I can offer that she is interested in), but it's fun having to translate Korean into German for a change. Doing this also allows me to avoid the English trap. German isn't a language I speak perfectly either (but it is quite a lot better than my Korean, and my spoken German is okay) so it should be fun. The rest of the weekend was spent on a birthday party and guitar practice (trying to learn Alice Cooper songs is fun, but takes time...). I am also noticing that my teaching requests are flying through the roof the coming weeks, and I will be very busy taking and teaching classes, so I will have to find all the free hours to study languages on my own. (Fortunately active wave lessons require almost zero time, and I will have some time to study and write Korean here and there). But all of that, and contending with the job hunt, means I am taxing myself quite hard, and I have to really take my energy recovery moments, or else I will feel "wrong". Fortunately for me, music is still a saviour of mine, so that is what I use to cope. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1106 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 1:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Today I tried to textchat in Korean. I hope people will have patience with me because I
speak like a turtle so slow. It just takes me forever to decode and encode Korean at this point, but I remember when I was at this stage in Russian - all you can do is muddle through 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5527 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1107 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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It would be nice if there were a shortcut, but the way you worded that is quite true. The only
way to get better at reading and typing Korean is by reading and typing Korean. I'm so used to reading and typing Korean now that I can barely recall having to suffer through it a few years ago, though I got a nice glimpse of the reading part when I was working on Japanese a while back and was reading Kana so slowly it was frustrating (much like I was with Hangul early on). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1108 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 8:56am | IP Logged | |||||
The Hangul gives me less problems than "what does that word mean" and then you look it up and it means "pervert" and no wonder you'd never come across it before. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6544 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish | Message 1109 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 9:00am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm curious - did you textchat on Interpals or somewhere else? As for me, the way I got used to typing in Korean was having an English - Korean Anki deck and requiring myself to type in the answer. I did this for more than half a year, I think, before I eventually decided that it was enough practice and abandoned the deck. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1110 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 9:38am | IP Logged | |||||
This was om Skype but we met on Interpals, yes. She was talking about somebody else (the gods be praised). I can't type quickly, but it's a matter of getting used to it. I actually prefer typing Korean on my phone with Swype :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5527 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1111 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
Strangely enough I picked up that word (변태) fairly early on. According to Anki I created that vocabulary card on Feb 23, 2011 (wow...nearly 3 years ago) after picking it up from an episode of 지붕뚫고 하이킥 (a Korean sitcom). The same word can also mean (and apparently originally means) "metamorphosis" (and it isn't just a homonym as they use the same Hanja), so I have an Anki card with that meaning as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1112 of 1511 05 February 2014 at 10:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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Trouvez les prépositions et les locutions prépositives: (y en a 13)
À l'instar des finlandais, on propose de construire un nouveau parc Angry Birds au lieu d'une station d'épuration des eaux sur notre terrain communal libéré. Par suite de la destruction du quartier, en face de notre manque d'eau potable, nous avons reçu autant de plaintes sur cette manque, étant donné que tous les habitants souffrent de déshydratation, en dépit de leur grands canisters d'eau fraîche importé aux Pays-Bas, en signe de la réputation néerlandaise pour faire potable tous les liquides méconnus. Du côte de la grande dame de ville Mme Deplan, nous devons construire le parc - pour avoir un divertissement pour les gens mal nourris, et doivent le situer le long de la rivière Gramadan, de par sa capacité de répliquer des eaux non-salés chaque année, qui peuvent nous servir comme source. Edited by tarvos on 06 February 2014 at 11:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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