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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 161 of 217 23 June 2015 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, heartbreaks are gonna be dealt with when I'll have my exams done. I have awesome friends, great dad, and tons of books, tv series and computer games to look forward to after the exams. (I invested 10 euros in games mostly in German in the last gog sale btw).
I am now doing bits of Spanish grammar every day (ok, now it's day two), as it is refreshing and doesn't take more time than a cup of coffee. But I need to work harder on my exams. I had to change the schedule and postpone them as I good bad toothache and had to visit my dentist instead. To the list of awesome parts of my life: I have the best dentist in the whole world. She is great! She really saved me. You know, it feels like a real betrayal when a piece of chocolate paralyzes me with pain. I'll see what I can do about traveling during the holidays. Berlin sounds really cool and I'd be excited to meet you, guys :-) Russian is not the only language with awesomely monolingual natives. There are the Italians, Spaniards, Hungarians, older Austrians and so on :-) Btw I had a brief French encounter yesterday, on my way from the dentist. I was advicing a tourist couple how to get to their hotel and they didn't switch despite my French being possibly influenced by the fact half my mouth was still recovering from anesthesia. ;-) And they didn't compliment my French, which was actually the biggest possible compliment, if you know what I mean :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 162 of 217 23 June 2015 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Heureka, progress in German! When did it happen? No idea! When did I find out? Right now!
A friend shared a newspaper commentary on facebook: Habermas:Merkels Griechenland-Politik ist ein Fehler. And I could understand! Not every word by far. But I could understand even some not that obvious things like ...hatte er für die Euro-Gruppe die Kastanien aus dem Feuer geholt. And I get what it is about, most of the thoughts. Sure, I am far from perfection, I could do with a dictionary but I can get a lot of things without it! YAY!!!!! A very needed piece of motivation to continue my German studies asap. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4207 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 163 of 217 23 June 2015 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Keep going! Well done!
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| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3848 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 164 of 217 23 June 2015 at 8:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very well done! I (unsurprisingly) didn't understand even a word of the bits you posted.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4513 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 165 of 217 23 June 2015 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Sounds like they had a delicious meal: too long url to include Edited by daegga on 23 June 2015 at 8:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4525 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 166 of 217 23 June 2015 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Congratulations! I saw the same article the other day, though I didn't get around to reading it. Habermas is regarded as one (the?) greatest living German intellectuals, so if you are enjoying reading him you are doing ok. 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 167 of 217 24 June 2015 at 3:01am | IP Logged | ||
If you can make it there in the beginning of August you may even meet some Frenchies (which is the reason I'm going :)) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 168 of 217 25 June 2015 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks!
About the bit I posted: I find that Czech is not a bad base for learning German, for example compared to English. Sure, the pronunciation isn't that different, the grammar has a lot of common features and logic (for example the conjugations, despite fewer cases, are very often easily transfered), we share vocabulary from the times when most Czechs spoke German. But the funniest is exactly this, the Kastanien like things. The sayings and idioms are often the same. More often than those in my other languages (even though I believe whole Europe shares many more than we usually suspect). I got my DALF C2 score as I asked for it out of curiosity. I haven't got the diploma yet (why, oh dear AF, why can't you use a little bit of all the high exam fees to buy a second printer?), I haven't found out the scores for each of the parts. But my overall score is 58/100. -it is not bad. I felt bad in 2010, when I got exactly 50 (the minimum to pass) in the DELF B2. Obviously, I progressed far from there. And the DELF/DALF exams are meant to be hard and 50(=pass) is already a good result usually. -it is not awesome either. Even considering the fact the examinators very rarely give over 35 in either part of C2 from what I heard (hard to tell how good my source is, why is there no official information? It is not irrelevant to see how many people are probably underestimating/overestimating their abilities when you're making the decision), I still hoped to be above 60 or 65 at least. After I'll have my uni exams, I'll get back to languages. And I consider trying a DELE in November, as those exams obviously work as great motivation for me. However, I have no clue about the level and will need to pay for a consultation (basically an interview with assessment, from what I read). My passive skills are at least C1, even though I need to work on my weaker areas to get the comprehension to the French or English level. My active skills? No clue. I have too little writing practice in my life and not many speaking opportunities (but I still meet many more Spanish natives than French or German ones usually). Based on those, I suppose I could strive for at least B1, perhaps B2 if I work hard on my grammar and vocabulary. I certanly don't intend to pay a tutor for a B level exam preparation. GOod night, I need to study. P.S. beginning of August doesn't look too good, I'll probably be taking care of some exchange students and that means mostly time at the beginning of the month. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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