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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4351 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes  Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 161 of 252 28 January 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today was a day of Turkish. I have finished the 4 FSI unit, and I can now count to ten. I have a feeling tomorrow will be another turkish day. The more I read, the more I like it. I can't believe I hadn't tried to learn before. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4351 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 162 of 252 30 January 2014 at 9:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I saw In the Electric Mist last night.
Nice English language film, great actors (Levon Helm too!), nice accents, but the best part was the soundtrack. The trailer doesn't do justice to the atmosphere is has. La Terre Tremblante Before I read the lyrics I could understand only words, but made no sense of everything else. I don't understand the canadian french accent either :) LA TERRE TREMBLANTE Les pêcheurs mettent leurs lignes comme des araignées Piégeurs, voleurs des âmes Les attrapes sont mises pour les innocents Gambleurs, éviteurs des blâmes Descends Allons Descends Dans l'eau saumâtre Reviens C'est rien Reviens A la terre tremblante Les voleurs, ça met leurs appâts sur la ligne La bouteille, la fierté et l’argent Ça voit pas qu’ils sont piégés pour toujours Dedans un fil étranglant Descends Allons Descends Dans l'eau saumâtre Reviens C'est rien Reviens A la terre tremblante 
Edit: In The Electric Mist (2009) Full movie with English Subtitles Edited by renaissancemedi on 30 January 2014 at 9:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7149 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 163 of 252 30 January 2014 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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For your interest, you may find this discussion from the forum of the first website for the FSI courses to be informative when it comes to phrases or words in FSI Turkish that are noticeably out of style.
I'm happy to see that you're enjoying your Turkish studies again. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4351 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 164 of 252 30 January 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Chung, this is so helpful we should make it public for the team :)
Yes, I am enjoying it a lot. I even took a good look at the second TY lesson, and it wasn't nearly as scary as the first. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4351 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 165 of 252 02 February 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I might as well admit it: My main focus becomes turkish and french, more and more. The best I can do for russian is an assimil course per day, and for hebrew simply try to learn the alphabet really well and slowly move through FSI.
I think that after a rather experimental January, it will be the pattern of this year's studies. Which is not bad, if it works. An advanced level in french, an FSI level in turkish (whatever it is), an assimil course in progress for russian and good foundation for hebrew. This thought takes a lot of anxiety off, I mean about how to effectively deal with four languages. They simply can't all be studied with the same intensity. Or at least I can't do it. Speaking of FSI levels, I read somewhere that for turkish it takes you from 450 to 2.500 words (items...). I don't know if it's true, but it sounds good. It includes the major patterns of simple sentences, and a vocabulary of about 475 high frequency items. In Level Two, basic dialogues and structure drills are supplemented with exercises that are designed to lead the student into freer conversation. It also presents the principal grammatical patterns not covered in Level One; and has a glossary of about 2500 items from both levels, as well as narrative passages serving to introduce the style of written Turkish. Edited by renaissancemedi on 02 February 2014 at 10:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6054 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 166 of 252 02 February 2014 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
That's precisely my method: change your focus as the languages progress. Along the path, you're bound to find moments where you're stuck in your number one language, in which case you should switch. Unless you have some test or exam coming up, that is. In my experience, learning languages at different levels is like having several hobbies: this month you play the guitar a lot, next one is a new ikebana technique. Just don't fall behind on the bonsai. ;) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4351 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 167 of 252 03 February 2014 at 8:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Luso :)
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4351 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 168 of 252 03 February 2014 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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For the FSI learners, a paper on the FSI courses and language learning.
FSI, Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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