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| Rniks Newbie United States Joined 3696 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian | Message 1 of 44 07 October 2014 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
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Bienvenidos, bine aţi venit, welcome all to my little log! I'm a recent graduate from the US learning both Spanish
and Romanian. My Spanish is much further along at this stage. I did a mix of formal and self-learning before studying abroad for a semester in Spain. I can, to an extent, enjoy native materials but do have large gaps in my vocabulary and struggle to catch more informal, natural spoken Spanish. My speech lags behind, and I'd really like to see an improvement with both my listening and speech in the next few months. Romanian, on the other hand, is pretty new to me. I've been using Discover Romanian by Rodica Boţoman along with the DLI Romanian Basic Course. I also really like the Learn Romanian with Nico account on Youtube. I'm still very much a beginner but it's fun to look ahead and skip around her lessons, especially the Romanian in Use series where she performs short skits. Although Spanish has been something I've always been interested in, Romanian came about because my significant other is a native speaker. He also speaks Spanish (near-native) so that doesn't hurt. (: We do tend to speak in English with each other, and it feels a bit odd to switch, unfortunately, since that's how our relationship began. However, around his family we speak exclusively in Spanish, and I'll be visiting them next month in Spain (the excitement!), so I'm trying to cram before arriving. With all of that out of the way, let the logging commence! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Xenops Senior Member United States thexenops.deviantart Joined 3817 days ago 112 posts - 158 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 2 of 44 07 October 2014 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
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ibienvenidos! I am also patching up my Spanish vocabulary (when I'm not working on Japanese :P) You could try the podcast "Notes in Spanish", which have intermediate and advanced levels. They have helped me quite a bit.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5857 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 3 of 44 07 October 2014 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
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If speaking gives you trouble, you might want to run through the FSI Basic course. The drills will make your speech a lot more automatic and things like conjugation or which tense to use etc. will come out without really needing to think about them anymore.
I'm also interested in Romanian and'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the DLI course. 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 4 of 44 07 October 2014 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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I didn't use the DLI, it's got such a military focus, I used the Assimil course instead
(but it's for French speakers so useless for you). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rniks Newbie United States Joined 3696 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian | Message 5 of 44 08 October 2014 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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Xenops: iGracias! He echado un vistazo y me parece un buen recurso. It’s always nice
to switch up what I listen to. Wishing you success with your Japanese, as well. I still haven’t ventured out of my romance language comfort zone, but one day! Crush: I considered doing FSI in the past but refrained because I was stuck on the idea that it would interfere with acquiring a European Spanish accent. However, I’m starting to think I’d much rather develop automaticity than worry about my accent sounding perfect, which let’s be honest, isn't the case anyway. Only need to decide where in the course would be a good place to start now, but I’ll definitely give it a try. I've so far only completed the first two lessons of the course, but I’m enjoying it. The first two have been rather easy because they coincided with what I already learned from Discover Romanian, though. The grammar explanations so far have been extremely concise yet surprisingly helpful. I plan on revising the lessons, since I don’t yet have much exposure to Romanian and really want to make it stick. As I get further in, I’ll make it a point to update my thoughts on the course. tarvos: So far the military slant isn't so bad, just a few nouns (sergeant, lieutenant, etc.,) but we’ll see as I get further on. Even without any French under my belt, I’d be happy for the audio. But as for now, I’m determined to be as cheap as possible while learning, heh. As for what I've done since posting: Spanish 2 episodes of Aquí no hay quien viva Revised grammar points from the first unit of Lingualia’s B1 course Chatted a bit back and forth on WhatsApp I finished the first season of Aquí no hay quien viva today. I'm glad I'll have plenty of episodes to watch before the series finishes. Marisa, the trash talking, chinchón drinking, cigarette smoking senior citizen, is so far my favorite character, along with Emilio, "el portero." The characters are all pretty ridiculous, but they're growing on me. I've finished the B1 level in Lingualia about a week ago but wanted to revise the lessons before moving on to B2. It's an app I found a few months ago for learning Spanish that blew me away. There are fifty lessons in each level as far as I know. It ranges from A1-B2. Anyway, the dialogues it has for each lesson are great, and it's a good way to pass time on my phone if I'm too lazy to do anything else. Romanian Lesson 2 of the DLI Basic Romanian Course I'm planning on finishing up Chapter 3 of Discover Romanian, and then I'll do a review of the first two lessons of the DLI course before moving on to the next. Edited by Rniks on 08 October 2014 at 12:41am 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 6 of 44 08 October 2014 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
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Haha, I think that course is also quite old-fashioned (it has the old orthography too).
But in my experience the DLI courses are thorough (like the FSI). My problem was that I needed very practical day-to-day Romanian. I don't know your reasons for picking Romanian though! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Khalid Lucas Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 3743 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: French | Message 7 of 44 08 October 2014 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
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Hello there, Rniks, welcome!
I wish you success on your studies and in your life. Khalid Edited by Khalid Lucas on 16 February 2015 at 11:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5857 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 8 of 44 08 October 2014 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
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I would definitely give FSI a shot, even if you focus on European Spanish the accent will fade away but the grammar and automaticity will stick. I think it'll also help your pronunciation. And besides, it sounds a lot better speaking European Spanish with a slight Mexican accent than it does with a heavy US accent ;)
I don't much care for Aqúi no hay quien viva (or La que se avecina), personally i like Aída much more, at least the earlier seasons. I haven't watched much of the later seasons. But i do agree that Emilio is a great character (and so is his dad). Chavo del ocho and the Chapulín Colorado (both by Chespirito) are really popular in Latin America, a lot of people grew up watching them. Making references to either show will probably make whoever your speaking with smile ("Más ágil que una tortuga, más fuerte que un ratón, más noble que una lechuga, su escudo es un corazón... ¡Es el Chapulín Colorado!"). Another show in Spain that i saw aired quite a bit was Manos a la obra. Two other shows i'd watch from time to time were El intermedio (a satirical news show) and El hormiguero (not sure how to describe it, they do lots of science experiments but also have other stuff, too, like talking about current events and lots of skits). I like some stuff by José Mota, too, though sometimes it's a bit too much. There's no shortage of shows out there, though, so i'm sure you'll find something (or several things) you like :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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