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Tristano’s log 2015 [EN|FR|NL|RU|ES] | ||
Tags: Lithuanian | Burn-out | Dutch | Portuguese | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | English | French | Spanish | ||
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 129 of 177 14 April 2015 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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ja indeed if I can reach the point I can learn Dutch by consuming media I tamed the beast
:D Before it's totally random. On a side note, I'm searching a new apartment (for me only, I'm still living with a roommate) and my initial thought is: real estate agencies = sharks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 130 of 177 17 April 2015 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Changes of mood.
Listening Portuguese is for me a challenge just slightly easier than listening Dutch (more familiar vocabulary on top of an unfamiliar language). And less rewarding, in this moment. Tonight I dreamed of my singing teacher, she's Italian and Dutch and she speaks both languages (plus English, plus French, plus Spanish, just like me!). In the dream she told me something about my singing, that I was not putting enough effort.... and whilst that actually makes sense, I think this rant of my brain was more for my Dutch :D Then I woke up and I saw this and laughed for one hour: 
and then I thought that the Dutch spelling on top of the English language makes more sense that the English spelling. Meebe it nieds sam modifiekashun bat IJ vink dat it is possibol. I think also that the Dutch grammar on top of English language very funny is. Today like I a bit playen. And then I thought that I should learn the Dutch grammar before to start the Arabic one. I bought the intermediate grammar, It would make sense to use it also. Like the Dutch reader. I think I should start to do ADATT (all Dutch all the time) and motivate myself buying the Arabic book. My Moroccan colleague awared me that learning Moroccan Arabic would not be useful with the Moroccan people living in the Netherlands.... because they mostly speak Dutch only or Dutch and Tamazigh, but not Moroccan dialect. They learn MSA/classical arabic for the religion, but they don't speak it also. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 131 of 177 17 April 2015 at 11:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, other funny thing
my singing teacher told me that I have an English accent when I speak Dutch my girlfriend told me that I have a Dutch accent when I speak English and my former French teacher told me that I have an Italian accent when I speak French. Fortunately my Spanish accent is neutral. But apparently it's not in Italian, because some friend of mine told me that I have now a foreigner accent and an Italian person in the Netherlands asked me how I learned Italian so well and he couldn't believe I was Italian because of my accent. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 132 of 177 20 April 2015 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow apparently I'm going five days in Portugal in two weeks and I will have not at all
the time to learn the language. I'm going to have a couple of lessons to learn the pronunciation and I will learn the vocabulary about food. I'm going to try to speak Spanish to the people... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3668 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 133 of 177 20 April 2015 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Buon divertimento per il vostro viaggio! Buona fortuna con portoghese :) I've always
thought Portuguese is a beautiful language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 134 of 177 20 April 2015 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Grazie mille solocricket! :)
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 135 of 177 22 April 2015 at 9:18am | IP Logged | ||
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So, today I have my first tutoring of Portuguese.
The goal of today's lesson is to learn Portuguese pronunciation to activate reading ability early and learn food related words and sentences. I asked the teacher to do the entire lesson in Portuguese and I will answer to her in Spanish. She seems to be enthusiastic about this lesson. I'm very curious! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 136 of 177 22 April 2015 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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It has been fantastic!
Her feedback on Italki:
Very nice and relaxed lesson. After she taught me the pronunciation I started to understand much better what she was saying to me. I was talking in Spanish (and sometimes in Portunhol :D) and she was speaking Portuguese to me. When I wasn't able to understand she didn't switch in English (I asked her not to use any English) and nor even in Spanish. When she wrote me what she said it was clear the meaning. What a nice experience! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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