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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5383 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 25 of 336 10 May 2012 at 1:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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A quick update:
Have been having trouble scheduling my days and building a solid study routine so I'm not making the kind of progress I'd like. I have been going out to more sorties though - a few were great for conversation while others were more awkward and forced. I've done something with my dubbed DVDs that I've never really done - watch them with English subtitles. Ever since I started watching dubbed series I always watched them with French subs (even though they're usually different) or none at all but I realized that I can learn something with English subs as well. I get to see better how they tried to translate - what they seemed to find untranslatable, etc. In addition, it made me realize yet again how much I miss by not paying 100% attention - even in English. Watching episodes of The Office that I've seen dozens of times now I realized that there are still little throw away lines in English that I've never noticed before. After a lifetime of watching TV I've grown accustomed to ignoring the bits of dialogue that are just there as background to set the scene just before the start of the main scene and things like that. Since my attention is more prone to slipping when watching in a foreign language, it makes me appreciate that I probably miss more than I think I do but the visual and general storytelling techniques lead me to believe that I understand everything. I've gone back to working with the transcripts I found for Buffy so that I can have a season's worth of episodes at 100%. I haven't made good progress in Spanish - I've been wanting to go back to review but haven't found the time to pull away from other activities. Though I did start a collection of Spanish music. I never took much to French music but I've discovered the world of Argentinian rock thanks to these boards, starting off with Babasónicos and using the "related artists" feature on Spotify to discover others. It's pretty much my style, as I love alternative rock, new wave, 80s, etc. Found one group that I swore must have been Simple Minds singing in Spanish, Soda Stereo. I'll work on collecting lyrics and starting to memorize them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5524 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 336 10 May 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Ça existe ? Merci à vous, je suis vraiment heureux aujourd'hui. :-) Je cherche des transcriptions depuis plusieurs semaines, mais je ne les ai pas pu trouver. Cette semaine, je regardais « Buffy » avec la télécommande en main. Je rembobinais et rembobinais et devinais, et j'en comprenais pas mal, malgré les sous-titres inutiles en français, mais une transcription ? Ce serait le rêve ! Connaissez-vous où je pourrais les trouver ? Sont-ils en ligne, dans un livre où ailleurs ? Vous pouvez m'envoyer un « PM », si vous voulez. Et merci comme toujours pour un journal très intéressant ! English: That exists? Thanks to you, I am very happy today. I've been looking for transcripts for several weeks, but I haven't been able to find them. This week, I've been watching Buffy with the remote control in hand. I've been rewinding and rewinding and guessing, and I've been understanding a good amount of it, despite the useless French subtitles, but a transcript? That would be a dream. Do you know where I could find them? Are they online, in a book, or somewhere else? You can send me a PM if you want. And thank you as always for a very interesting log! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5524 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 336 10 May 2012 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, ça y est : transciptions
en français de Buffy. Toute sept saisons, aussi. J'ai dû utilisé Google.fr et pas la version française de Google.com. C'est chouette, ça. :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4881 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 28 of 336 10 May 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Buffy, in French, with transcripts?!!? What a great find. sctroyenne and emk, you're my
heroes of the day on HTLAL! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5383 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 29 of 336 11 May 2012 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Awesome! I had only ever found them at hypnoweb.net and the community there had mostly
given up after season 2 (with a few episodes here and there for the later seasons). Chapeau bas à toi, emk! The good thing about the French dub of Buffy is that Dawn's "Get out!" screaming is FAR less annoying! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5383 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 30 of 336 15 May 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Continuing my OVS outings in full-force though I'm going through a patch where I find
it harder to interact. Though sometimes it's hard to find chemistry with the group that lets me speak easily. I saw the film Radiostars which wasn't great. I'll be seeing Le Prénom soon which everyone says is great. And it's in the typical French film style where people sit around and talk for an hour and a half to two hours, especially since it's an adaptation of a play which takes place in a single setting. I went to a taping of France 5's C Politique with an interview of Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Front de Gauche. An hour and ten minutes of pure political speech. I had already been to tapings with Eric Besson, Francois Bayrou and Eva Joly and of all of them, Melenchon was certainly the most entertaining. Linguistically he's important as his criticism of Hollande being a "capitaine de pédalo" or captain of a paddle boat is cited all the time now. I'll be going to a taping of the talk show On n'est pas couche tomorrow, which lasts for hours. So far only one guest of five is confirmed: Franck Provost, a major hair stylist who owns a large chain of hair salons. A sort Vidal Sassoon in France. I haven't been making progress in Spanish or Irish and so I need to self-flagellate and get on that. Next update there will be some progress! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eilis91 Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie France Joined 4568 days ago 28 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English*, Irish*, French, Italian Studies: German, Yoruba | Message 31 of 336 15 May 2012 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dear sctroyenne,
It's great to see someone learning Irish! I think the Munster dialect is an excellent choice as you will be understood easily by all Irish speakers. Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat! :) Eilís 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4600 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 32 of 336 15 May 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great to see you started posting again, I thought you'd disappeared! :P So are you
staying in France, or do you have to go back to the States soon? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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