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| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 9 of 200 16 December 2008 at 11:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I finished Les Trois Mousquetaires.
I have also posted one Spanish, and one extra french post on lang-8. I am now up to 27 busuu.com modules. Need to get cracking on assimil etc. Did a bunch of interviews in French these last few days as well. Thom. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6165 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 200 16 December 2008 at 11:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with your studies! I'm generally skeptical of attempts to learn multiple languages at once, but I think that your plan is both ambitious yet reasonable.
It's a funny thing with languages... all I can do is cheer you on. I wish I could just copy / paste my knowledge of French and just give it to you. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 11 of 200 16 December 2008 at 12:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cheers neonqwerty,
I don't imagine that I will acheive greatness in my target languages in the timeframe. However, I believe that I should be able to lay the ground work for future growth. A ce moment j'ai le temps, et j'ai l'envie. Si j'arrive à un moment où je dois laisser un ou tous mes langues à la côté ça ne me fera point un problème. Mais, pour moi, les langues dont j'ai choisis sont utile, et pas si difficile par rapport aux autres. Je crois donc que il vaut le peine de les essayer, et au moins être capable de les mettre sur mon CV. Bonne chance avec vos langues. Quelle niveau d'allemand avez vous? Est-ce que vous avez trouvé l'italien relativement simple etant donné que vous avez déjà un connaissance du français? Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6165 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 200 16 December 2008 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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My level of German is enough to lay the groundwork for future study. ;) I understand and am comfortable with basic structure, pronunciation, and very limited vocabulary. It's good enough to allow me to self-study with confidence.
En ce que concerne l'italien, oui, mon aptitude en français m'a beaucoup aidé. Je n'ai rien trouvé de bizarre, côté grammaire. Du côté vocabulaire, il est vrai que plusieurs mots se ressemblent. En effet, j'ai choisi l'italien comme ma première nouvelle langue en partie parce que je savaid qu'elle allait être relativement facile pour moi. Out of curiosity, are you at all concerned about mixing up your French and Spanish? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 13 of 200 17 December 2008 at 2:35am | IP Logged | ||
Not really. They have a distinct flavour which separates them. Although I am sure that when I try to speak Spanish I will throw in some French words to fill in the gaps. It's just what I do. Besides, why worry about something that may or may not happen? Thom 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 14 of 200 24 December 2008 at 5:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Dear readers,
Today is the day, the fat man is on his way, and TAC 2009 is underway. Accordingly, I am making the shift to this new log. Leaving my other one as an attestation to all that was accomplished in the latter half of 2008. Français: I am thinking I might follow Tricours's lead and do a bit of a French through literature while working through a book I have for improving my written expression. So this is a call to all those francophone book lovers to give me recommendations. Be they classics/modern/or whatever, as long as they are of a good literary quality. I will also finish my Grammar textbook which I think goes to a C1 level. I will then buy the DALF C1/C2 Preparation work book(s) and destroy them with the goal of sitting the DALF C1 in the first half (or C2 in the second half) of the year. Español (Castellano): Since I started Spanish just over a month ago I have done: - Gramatica: Elemental A1-A2 by ANAYA Chapters 1-3 - Michel Thomas Spanish up to CD 5 - Pimsleur Spanish up to lesson 13. - Assimil L'espagnole sans peine upto lesson 20 (probably need to restart, TheElvenLord has made it apparant that his way of using it works a bit better than mine, so I will try to find a moderate not so insane middle ground to get the most out of it I can) - 31 Busuu Modules Down. (I will go through and rewrite all the sentences that I posted for correction in their corrected forms for writing practice). - I have gone through about sixty pages of my grammar taking notes, sample sentences etc. I will continue to do so until I have finished all of them. I will also Vocab/Sentence mine El Mundo which I bought on the weekend(Scriptorium?). In addition to starting to find stuff to read, be it websites, newspapers, short novels, etc. Maybe HP, or if I can find it Harry Dresden, because well, he's just the better wizard. :p Deutsch: Starts now. I will do Assimil, Pimsleur, MT, and whatever else it takes. Starting slowly building up later in the year. Focussing on written understanding and expression for the time being. To all of you on #learnanylanguage thank you for your support, encouragement and distraction. I hope you will continue to spur me onwards, because I will be there lashing your backs with a textual whip should you slacken off. Good luck for TAC 2009 everyone, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I remain, Thom. Edited by ExtraLean on 24 December 2008 at 5:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 15 of 200 26 December 2008 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fellow TACers and those lazy few who have not (yet) decided to join in,
Been busy since the last update, Christmas time and all that jazz. Managed to slip away this morning to buy the afore mentioned C1/C2 work book for French. I have started to read La Peste by Albert Camus and I am up to page 51. It is more interesting than the Dostoyevski I started the other day, so I will go with this one, and try to knock it over soon. We went and saw "Australia" at the cinema this afternoon, just got back. It was ok. Watched it in English with the frenchy subtitles. Learned that "what the bloody hell's goin on 'ere" translates to "Qu'est-ce que c'est ce bordel?" Which was the highlight of the movie. Other than that, not too much language wise, lots of drinking, eating, and sleeping. Thom. Edited by ExtraLean on 26 December 2008 at 12:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 16 of 200 26 December 2008 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Please let me know which DALF book you got and what you thought of it. I'm thinking of getting one myself, without intending to sit the exam, just to improve my level.
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