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| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 17 of 51 25 February 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry I didn't see this log until now.
Good luck with your studies. Go Team Freutsch ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 18 of 51 14 March 2012 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you all for your support. :-) I had taken some break from languages (and most of
my other studies as well) until about a week ago to recover a bit from being desperate. :-D I had finished the 6wc long before the end and I've given up Esperanto even though I will surely return to it when the time allows it because I still consider it an interesting experiment. On Friday, I am going to France for a week of skiing! I'll have a few opportunities to speak as well but I am rusty. Since the french tv series streaming website was mostly removed from the internet (and I havent found a substitution yet), I don't have that much of fun listening material. I have begun learning basics of Italian. I know it sounds crazy to start something new now but I need it for my job. There are lots of Italian customers in the shop where I sell and most of them know no languages, not even English. So, the best option proved to be them speaking slow Italian (and repeating things twice of three times) and me speaking real bad Spanish. I think I can just as well speak bad Italian soon :-) I got a great czech based textbook with a lot of drill exercises. A flaw so far seems to be the choice of vocabulary. "Il campanile" in the second lesson surprised me. I hope more relevant vocabulary will fill the rest (it promises about 3500 words in whole course). The course seems pretty good when it comes to most of the dialogues and grammar and it aims to bring me to level C1. But I will need to substitute it with a lot of listening exercises, since the audio covers only the introductory dialogues. I am still reading the song of ice and fire, currently the second part of book three, and I am quite addicted. But I am not reading now because I am afraid of the chapters to come as I've accidentally read more spoilers than I wanted and I don't wanna see some of my favourite chars dead. I know it sounds stupid. It's been a long time since I loved chars of a book so much. And at the end of this week, book five is being released in paperback! I hope GRRM's health will be perfect for at least next ten years so he can finish the series (I hope it doesn't sound bad but I believe many people understand. Especially fans of the Wheel of Time). My German is asleep but I'll wake it up when I'm back from France. Until then, genetics and physiology are my main targets. It looks funny when a huge part of my baggage to the mountains is consists of heavy books but I'm used to it. I'll need to catch up on my teammates logs since I've been reading even the forums much less lately. I hope you are all well. And bravely pursuing your language studies of course :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 19 of 51 08 April 2012 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good news, everyone.
It's been a long time since I wrote last time but I have some good news. The week in France was great, I got back some good mood and got complimented on my French a few times. Not sure how much is true about that or whether they just had really low expectations of foreigners speaking it. I found out that people outside the tourist areas are much nicer. And I used an expression which I had met on memrise and thought "I will never need that." It was very useful (I wanted the meat "bien cuit"). Back in Prague, I was in theatre to see Pierre Richard's one man show and it was perfect. I must admit I didn't understand much when he was imitating a man speaking with a lisp and I was grateful for the subtitles at the moment :-D It was wonderful, if anyone has the opportunity, I highly recommend it. Mr. Richard was entertaining the public whole time, but never stupidly. The way he makes fun of his own clumsiness is awesome, I really don't know how much he is clumsy and how much he is pretending in the old films. And it was one of the rare occassions when I wasn't laughing the loudest (accually, my laughter was completely lost under the roaring). And since I am back at home, I am back at the languages as well. I am spending quite a lot of time at memrise. When I have more time, I will create my own wordlists but not now. I have found quite nice thematic lists for Spanish. I am reading in English but I am resuming my other language studies as well. I found out I had learnt cyrillics quite well because I had several opportunities to read it. I understand just a part of the meaning (after all, I don't study Russian), but it is fun to be litterate. Last thing. I noticed the Freutsch team is less visible in the logs forum. That is wrong. I will update more frequently to fight against this ugly phenomenon :-D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 20 of 51 08 April 2012 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome back !
Yeah, the Freutsch team a bit down at the moment. We need all the help we can get. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 21 of 51 12 April 2012 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Bjorn.
I have been memrising lately and I even gathered the courage to start creating my own lists. It will take time but it will be worth it as they will be the best lists on whole site :-D (just kidding. but they will be very good among the lists for the target languages). Another + of my own lists will be knowing how huge is my vocabulary. I am taking it as a mix of review, relearning and learning new words, set phrases, idioms etc. I started with Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 22 of 51 12 April 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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And I nearly forgot. I have recently watched quite a lot of Doctor Who (and Torchwood) in
English with French subtitles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5202 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 51 13 April 2012 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||
I don't know which seasons you've been watching, but if you've been catching the ones with David Tennant as the Doctor, you might also like to try his Hamlet. It's a BBC/Royal Shakespeare Company co-production, and - as expected -excellent. There are English captions, but there doesn't seem to be (even on Amazon.fr) a version with French subtitles. Still, even just the English should be enough to extend your vocab somewhat...! (One of the many things I like about this production is that the language really comes alive - it's not a musty artifact that one has to study.) Nice log you have here, by the way. And I know just what you mean about the joy of finding new words: one of my earlier delights was the French word "néanmoins": nevertheless, nonetheless. It's such an ordinary, frequently-used word, but I liked its utility as a conjunction, and the way it sounds. It looks, at first glance, like such a tricky word (I initially wondered, "could it be a legal term?"); néanmoins, it is really so simple and obvious once the word has been explained. Edited by songlines on 13 April 2012 at 5:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 24 of 51 14 April 2012 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, Songlines! It is nice to hear such a nice feedback to my log :-) Thanks for
the advice about Hamlet, it looks really good. I haven't gathered my courrage for Shakespeare in original yet but I should. Néanmoins is a beautiful word. So simple once you are used to it and still looks tricky at first glance and therefore makes you sound clever :-D I love approximativement similarily. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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