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Radioclare’s tac log 2015 (*jäŋe/*ledús) | ||
Tags: Macedonian | Serbian | Serbo-Croatian | Croatian | Esperanto | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | ||
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 33 of 292 24 January 2015 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It hasn't been a very productive week, but it has been a good day. I finally got to the end of 'Три
Мускетара', an abbreviated and simplified children's version of 'The Three Musketeers' in Serbian Cyrillic. This is the first time I have ever read any kind of book in Cyrillic, and so I feel a little bit proud :) It was about 225 pages, of which I have counted 75 towards the Super Challenge. The print is larger than a normal book and there are quite a few pictures, so this felt about right. I *think* my reading speed is slowly improving. I was trying to assess the speed today and I can read more or less at the speed of slow reading aloud, stumbling if there is a long word I haven't seen before. This is still painfully slow but a significant improvement on where I was a few months ago, when I had to spell out every single word, syllable by syllable. I know that to get better I just need to force myself to read more! Serpent shared a really cool picture of Serbian handwriting with me earlier in the week. I like the way these letters are written a lot better than the ones I have been trying to copy in my handwriting exercises because these are more scribbly and less swirly. My handwriting isn't pretty and swirly in English so I think it's unrealistic to expect it to be like that in Serbian. The style of these letters looks much more manageable to me :) Interestingly three of the letters (i, p, t) are handwritten differently here from the exercises I had been copying. This evening I watched episode two of the second series of 'Budva na pjenu od mora'. There were lots more nice shots of Žabljak, which I enjoyed. There were also some shots of Podgorica, but although they really tried they didn't succeed in making it look attractive. I think Podgorica is in need of a Skopje-style makeover :D I still can't catch all of the dialogue (it depends a lot on who is speaking and how strong their accent is) but I feel like I am doing better now. Edited by Radioclare on 24 January 2015 at 10:55pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 34 of 292 25 January 2015 at 12:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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Aww, glad to help :) The ones you posted kinda look more like computer cursive than actual handwritten cursive to me. Kinda like few probably write the a this way in English.
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 35 of 292 25 January 2015 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Today hasn't been the most productive of days language-wise, but I have forced myself
to write this week's 350 words. I actually managed nearer 400 :) This is the uncorrected version. It's about the day I wanted to visit Mount Vodno outside Skopje but couldn't because of torrential rain.
Will be interesting to see what corrections I get this time :) Edited by Radioclare on 25 January 2015 at 10:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 36 of 292 30 January 2015 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Unfortunately this week has been even less productive than last week. It's not really
an exaggeration to say that I haven't done anything since Sunday apart from work. I haven't even managed to do quite simple things I wanted to do like go for a walk or reply to Facebook messages, and I am completely behind on everyone else's logs. Hopefully normal service will resume in February :) I plan to catch up with everything over the weekend, but in the meantime I should post my corrections from last week's words.
I got corrections from three different people, and a nice comment from one of them: "Tvoj hrvatski je stvarno odličan! Svaka ti čast, nije mala stvar ovako dobro naučiti pisati na hrvatskom!" :) I'm quite pleased that there weren't too many corrections in that piece. Obviously I'm still writing on pretty simple themes, but I feel like I am improving in accuracy already, so I definitely need to keep this up. I saw a thread from someone over the past week or so (no idea who or where and will probably never find it in the depths of the forum to comment!) about it taking ages to get corrections on lang-8. I don't have that problem at all - I think the longest it has taken me to get a correction is 24 hours, and it's normally significantly less than that. I'm not very diligent about correcting other people's English, so I think it's probably because I'm writing in a less popular language and so there aren't many other people's entries competing with mine to attract corrections from the Croats on lang-8. I can imagine it's a very different situation with French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 37 of 292 31 January 2015 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I finished reading "Krpar, krojač, soldat, špijun" today. I learned two things from
this: that I don't like reading John le Carre books and that "fenjerdžija" is the Serbian word for "lamp-lighter". I'm not sure which knowledge is more useful. Two more 'books' to read and then I will be up to 200 for the Super Challenge. And following another episode of 'Budva na pjenu od mora' tonight, only two more films to go until I reach 100. I am quite enjoying watching 'Budva' now and I feel like it gives some interesting insights into Montenegrin culture. One of the older characters today made reference to fighting in Herzegovina during the 1990s, and being involved in the Montenegrin attack on Dubrovnik. There is a female character who can walk into a bar, down three rakijas in quick succession and still function as if she is completely sober. I wish I could do this. There was also a very amusing part when one character brought his fiancee to his father's house to meet him for the first time. She brought a few gifts, including a packet of coffee. He gave her instructions as to how to find the kitchen so that she could make them all a cup :D I guess this might be what my guidebook to Montenegro meant when it said that some men had a rather conservative attitude towards women! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 38 of 292 01 February 2015 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I didn't do any work today (yay!) so was able to catch up on quite a bit of stuff.
This morning I read the first 42 pages of 'Чаробњак из Оза' (The Wizard of Oz), which is my second Serbian children's book in Cyrillic. Having finished a novel yesterday, I also started reading a new book in the Latin alphabet: 'Krv Bogova' (The Blood of Gods) by Conn Iggulden. It's the fifth and final book in the series about Caesar that I started reading back in May. I devoted some time this afternoon to studying my Macedonian textbook, because I have made a shamefully poor start with Macedonian so far this year. I spent some time working on my handwriting as well. My textbook has an example handwritten Macedonian alphabet and most letters are the same as in the Serbian handwriting that Serpent linked me to last week. The Macedonian ones are slightly messier if anything, which suits me fine :) I had a twinge of guilt about my unwatered Memrise backlog earlier and cleared it down to zero. That included 80 Macedonian words (I think that's my entire vocabulary right now!) and about 450 Croatian. I found I had forgotten some animal words through lack of practice, eg. omčica (ferret). I should practise more often. This evening I watched another episode of Budva, which included some more cultural gems and unusual accents. One of the characters kept saying "šutra" for "sutra" and I heard lots more examples of accents unexpectedly falling on the final syllable of a word. This episode included some nice shots of Stari Bar, which was pretty cool for me because I'd been there in the summer, but I'm not sure it's going to do much for the Montenegrin tourist industry because it was used as the backdrop for the local mafia beating someone up. And of course, I have written this week's 350 words. It actually turned out to be nearer 500 and it's about my visit to Bitola.
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| nikolic993 Diglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 3772 days ago 106 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian | Message 39 of 292 01 February 2015 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
Svaka čast, odličan tekst! Imaš jako malo grešaka što se tiče padeža i izbora reči, ali sve u svemu, jako lepo napisano. :)
In this case, "pogledala" would mean that you only looked once and stopped looking, while "gledala" would mean that you kept on looking through the window. "pogledala" is svršeni vid and it is used for actions that are happening "currently" or to signify the beginning or an end of an action. "gledala" is nesvršeni vid and it denotes an action that is in progress or that is repeated at certain intervals. I hope you don't mind my corrections. If you want to, I can correct your Serbian texts, if you ever decide to write in Serbian. :) Edited by nikolic993 on 01 February 2015 at 10:52pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 40 of 292 02 February 2015 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you nikolic, I am extremely grateful for any corrections I can get :) My main aim for this year is to improve my writing. I know I definitely need to
pay more attention to aspect and cases because I make several mistakes with these every time I write. I had a few more corrections on lang-8 today, so here is my corrected text:
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