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| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3620 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 17 of 30 21 April 2015 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Crepi! Grazie mille tristano!
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| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3620 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 18 of 30 13 May 2015 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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ICELANDIC: The trip is coming up in just a little more than two months! This week I've decided to slowly wade back into studying Icelandic. I'm surprised at how much I remember, especially with a couple months off. I think I'm going to make a point of memorizing important travel phrases and responses, and also a personal introduction in case someone asks why I'm learning Icelandic. I'm also going to review the basic grammar from my Hippocrene textbook. ITALIAN I've been able to SMS an Italian friend lately, and she's been incredibly helpful! She lives in the US and I think perhaps grows tired of using English all the time (could be wrong) but she always, always, always answers me in Italian if I start a conversation in it. I love that, because usually I find people are reluctant to switch the language in which a friendship "exists" (myself included! I was trying to switch all my conversations with my brother to French, since we're both able to express ourselves, but that hasn't worked out yet...). I actually visited her and her family in person this past weekend but I was too shy to try any speaking. SPANISH AND FRENCH Doing the same stuff-- occasional movies and TV, some reading. ---- The weekend before last, I was in NYC with my family, and I love how diverse it is and how many languages you can hear in the streets. It was exciting hearing snippets of Spanish, French, and Italian especially, since I understood all three. I was even able to explain a change in a tour boat schedule in French to a French woman who didn't understand the change. It was a lot of fun, especially since I don't often get to use my languages organically in everyday life. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3620 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 19 of 30 15 May 2015 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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ITALIAN Started Duolingo yesterday, just to activate some basic vocabulary and grammar structures, a lot of which I recognize from texts. I'm not too crazy about Duolingo, but I like the sleek app and interface too much (ha!), and I would like to stick with it for a longer period of time so I can have a better opinion of it. But if it gets to tedious, I'll probably switch to something else ^^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3620 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 20 of 30 28 May 2015 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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ITALIAN Still sticking with Duolingo! I'm still not too crazy about the method, but I don't want to be too serious about learning Italian, and it's been helpful for small grammar things I've missed thus far. I also listen to some radio, but Italian is a more secondary study for me. SPANISH I really need to improve, and I think I'm going to make an effort to watch more Spanish language movies and TV, even in translation. ??? I bought a Pimsleur Conversational course for Cantonese! Just to assuage curiosity pretty much, but I love how Cantonese sounds. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4293 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 21 of 30 28 May 2015 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, it sounds awesome. Sadly, I've heard Pimsleur released only one level? 批評をお楽しみにします！ また、 日本語の漢字の音読みが時折 官話より広東語に似たそうなので、 もっと覚えやすくなりますかもしれません。 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3620 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 22 of 30 29 May 2015 at 3:38am | IP Logged | ||
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As far as I can tell there's only one full level of Pimsleur Cantonese, but I can't
afford such things, and I don't live near a well-stocked library so I only picked up the 16 lesson conversational one :) And yeah-- already I learned that Cantonese uses the same hanzi for eat (食) as Japanese and that Mandarin uses something else-- interesting! 私 は、日本語がとても弱い。。。でも、頑張り ましょう！漢字がきれいですね、だからもっ と習いたい。 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Soffía Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4494 days ago 22 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic | Message 23 of 30 31 May 2015 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi there! Great to find someone else actively working on Icelandic.
I was wondering whether you've come across Alaric Hall's MP3 course? It's not great for pronunciation, since he's not a native speaker, but it really helped me grasp the basics and start putting sentences together. (It's along the lines of the Michel Thomas courses.) The related resources aren't up at the moment but you can still download the course itself here: http://www.alarichall.org.uk/teaching/modern_icelandic.php 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3620 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 24 of 30 10 June 2015 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Soffia-- thanks for the resource! I'll check it out :)
UPDATE: I've gotten so excited about all these languages! This past weekend, I went to Boston to visit my brother, and the town of Cambridge especially has some fantastic bookstores. Among my treasures, I found used TWO of the Graceling books by Kristin Cashore (it's a young adult series that, unfortunately, I never really got into in English) in Hungarian! I have no serious plans to learn Hungarian right now, but I hope everyone can understand that I needed to buy them both :D Of course, I spent a couple hours picking through them with Google Translate. I also found Book I of Hyperion (a science fiction novel originally in English) in French, which was also great! I'm usually disappointed in the selection of French books in US bookstores-- if they have them at all, it tends very heavily towards classics and academic literature. Back to the things I *should* be working on: ITALIAN Going very, very well! My brief Duolingo studies everyday are still enjoyable, and I've started (slowly) reading Il Nome della Rosa by Umberto Eco. If you know anything about this book, then you know for a fact that it is not beginner's literature; however, it's the only Italian book I own for now :) SPANISH ES: Me gustaría leer un capítulo de Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego cada día. Espero que mi nivel mejoró con este libro. Leo ahora mismo el libro de Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I learn Languages, en inglés, y quiero leer más en mis idiomas. Sra Lomb estudió sus idiomas por la lectura. Me gusta leer, entonces me gusta el estilo de Sra. Lomb. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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