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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5384 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 117 11 January 2015 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Since our team is so small, I'm leaving it open to anyone studying Romance languages (ie - the Spanish and French teams) as well. If you're on FB much, join us. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6586 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 18 of 117 11 January 2015 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for setting up the group!
Heh, for me it's a downside that it goes to the next vid, as it's marked as viewed if I don't pause it in the last second :D And adblock plus can hide all youtube ads :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5384 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 19 of 117 11 January 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
Still, then you just go back to the last one you "watched," no big deal. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Meddysong Triglot Groupie United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 3596 days ago 56 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, French Studies: Italian, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 20 of 117 12 January 2015 at 8:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello there, fellow Romancers!
I'm Tim, other half of Radioclare (she of the collosal 2014 log in Slavic languages: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=37742). I'm not likely to put in anything like the amount of work that she does but then I don't think anybody else could either. I'm her enabler, in a way, buying her text books and novels, which she then runs through :) Where Clare handles the Slavic languages on our fairly frequent holidays, I take the Romance ones. It's not a bad arrangement. I learned French in school and thought I was really really good at it, usually coming at or near the top in tests. It wasn't until I moved to France when I was a student that my illusion was shattered, and it became clear that classroom French might buy you a beer, but you're not going to have much of a conversation whilst drinking it. Fortunately for me, immersion worked and I became functionally fluent, which triggered the language bug. I later learned Italian (reading pretty good, writing fair, spoken reasonable), Spanish (reading reasonable, writing and spoken laboured), Esperanto (functional fluency) and dipped my toe into several other languages. My mini project for this year is to read a novel in Catalan. I have no expectations of being able to write or converse in the language, but I've been able to read and understand it fairly well when we've been on holiday in Barcelona and Andorra, and so for curiosity's sake I'd like to study it. Romania and Bulgaria are still new territory to us, so I'd like to think that in 2016 we might visit those countries. Clare's currently learning Macedonian, which will mean she can handle Bulgaria, which leaves me with Romanian. So at some point this year I'd like to get started on learning it, and I'm secretly looking forward to it because it contains Slavic features that might act as a gateway to the Slavic languages too. In the meantime, though, I'd like to continue reading in Italian and French (a habit I've only recently picked up again and which Santa Claus has helped me with) and give some thought to studying Catalan. It's been a long time since I actively studied a language, so I'll keep things simple for the time being. Edited by Meddysong on 12 January 2015 at 3:40pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6586 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 21 of 117 12 January 2015 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh, welcome!!! Clare is wonderful ♥. Her Croatian is way better than mine although I'm Russian, lol.
Catalan and Romanian are really cool :) Be sure to add them to your profile btw :) Please start a log and sign up here too (add yourself to the wikia if you can). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Meddysong Triglot Groupie United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 3596 days ago 56 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, French Studies: Italian, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 22 of 117 12 January 2015 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you for the warm welcome :)
I'll definitely add them once I feel that I've put some effort in (I haven't started yet), but if it were a case of adding languages to my profile after I've read an overview of the grammar or some chapters of a Teach Yourself, then there'd be a bunch more. For instance, I attended an awful BCS class with Clare and have done maybe 12 chapters of Teach Yourself Croatian, but I realistically can't say I know Croatian or actively study it, and the same with the other languages. When Catalan and Romanian appear, at least you'll know that I really am taking it seriously :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6586 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 23 of 117 12 January 2015 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It doesn't have to be *that* serious hehe. You can already understand Catalan, so as far as I'm concerned you've already started. But whatever works for you :)
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| Ccaesar Triglot Groupie Denmark Joined 3784 days ago 84 posts - 94 votes Speaks: Danish*, English, German Studies: Italian | Message 24 of 117 13 January 2015 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ciao a tutti!
Bonjour à vous! Well I am from Denmark and have had a passion for languages as long as I can remember, I've learnt English, German and French at school (and afterwards), however, my English and German is much better than my French. I have decided to take up Italian and I am currently using Assimil and watching/listening to Italian music on youtube. In addition to that I am chatting/talking to Italians as often as I can, and I feel that I am making progress. I hope to reach a stabil B1 by the end of the year. log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=38982 Edited by Ccaesar on 13 January 2015 at 2:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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