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| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3735 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 25 of 34 31 August 2014 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
I didn't get what you mean :-) even with a dictionary :-) I didn't want to flatter you, everything I have written was sincere. :-) That's funny how it correlates with your quote :-)
I'm honest. You've asked I've answered :-) I could say that I live in Naples or Milan or Necker but I did not. :-) If I would be able to change this parameter to World/Worldwide/or leave it blank I would changed it. If you personally do not like that I'm virtually in the Virgin Islands I can change it. It just confuse people when I think about studying Italian while I live there. That's the reason I've got to your island, sorry :-)) It's hard to find a place I like where people do not speak languages I like :-) P.S. As far as I know Puerto Rico is also a part of Virgin Islands and one of the official languages there is Spanish. :-) Edited by Enrico on 31 August 2014 at 8:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 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 26 of 34 31 August 2014 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, but you still keep it listed in your profile and basically imitate being from the Virgin Islands :)
I'd say the default location for those who prefer not to specify it is Antarctica. Prof Arguelles did ask someone whether they were a researcher, but most members will understand that you're not really there. Alternatively you could choose some place where you at least have some heritage. I think most Russians have connections to Belarus/Ukraine/Kazakhstan/Moldova? BTW, if you're not in the USA/Virgin Islands, you can discard most of what I said about Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 27 of 34 31 August 2014 at 8:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Enrico, personally, I don't care where you say you live, I just think that your choices will influence how you are perceived and received on the forum. If you say you live in Italy and you're learning Italian, people are going to have much different advice for you based on this assumption. If you say you are living in the VI, people are going to think you are living in an English-speaking country. This can affect recommendations for you. For example, US websites are not geo-restricted for me. I can order from US Amazon with domestic shipping rates. Schoenhoff's offers domestic shipping rates to me. As far as I know, the Annenberg Destinos website for learning Spanish is geo-restricted to North America, etc. There are work-arounds available for those who live elsewhere.
Honesty in a profile just simply helps us to help you better, :) By the way, Puerto Rico is not pat of the Virgin Islands and vice-versa. It is a separate US Territory/Commonwealth with it's own government and own territorial integrity. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3735 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 28 of 34 31 August 2014 at 8:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's too cold in Antarctica, even virtually :-)) sorry I don't wanna leave there :-) Let's find more warm and beautiful place in the world for me :-) which civilised and has many tourists from US and Europe :-) Maldives maybe? :-)) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3735 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 29 of 34 31 August 2014 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's was the very reason I've got to your island dear Iguanamon. :-)
It's ok for me because all languages I'm learning now I'm learning using materials for English speakers. I can order or find almost everything you can find on Amazon especially in the field of language learning. I did not see any website which was restricted for Russian users but if I will find one I can easily overcome it in less than 1 minute (If Amazon cannot sell me something that's the problem of Amazon's business and if they do not want to sell me I will find it without them). I find very interesting for example after reaching some level in English begin to learn for instance Italian via English then French via Italian then Spanish via French. I find this approach very beneficial. I completely refused materials in Russian even in learning English somewhere around A1 or A2 level. And I'm very happy with that because materials in English is more comprehensive and less boring for me. Edited by Enrico on 31 August 2014 at 9:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 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 30 of 34 31 August 2014 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's not only the materials. I assumed that you have lots of exposure to Spanish, including local radios etc. In Russia it's not like that.
And really, do you order from amazon? Isn't the shipping very expensive? I prefer to order from bookdepository, they have free shipping to nearly all countries, including Russia. @iguanamon - no, Destinos aren't blocked for me at least. I've accessed the site from Russia and Belarus. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3735 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 31 of 34 01 September 2014 at 12:28am | IP Logged | |||||
I didn't say that I order anything from Amazon. I do not order not because of expensiveness, there are many things that cheeper there but most of them are cheeper less than 100$ so it does not have much sense to wait for 2-4 weeks for 100$. I become very impatient when it comes to buy a new Assimil course or a new musical instrument for example :-) Besides most of they sell they do not ship to Russia. I said that I can find most of I need for language learning without Amazon. By the way you can order English ebooks on Amazon usually at the price of 5-15$. Edited by Enrico on 01 September 2014 at 12:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 32 of 34 01 September 2014 at 2:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Good luck, Enrico. Edited by iguanamon on 01 September 2014 at 2:15am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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