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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6137 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 145 of 172 14 September 2009 at 10:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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Glad to hear your back on track, and even taking Russian classes. :-) Very impressive.
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6664 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 146 of 172 17 September 2009 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks, DaraghM!
As usual, I have spent most my time doing university related things, but I have managed to write another post on lang-8. I had forgotten how much I enjoy writing :-) I now have so many lang-8 friends that I get several corrections within no time at all, which is absolutely great. ExtraLean pointed out that it's about time for a post in Hungarian, and I fully agree, so perhaps... tomorrow? On my way to work today I listened to a Russian podcast, The Big Podcast. It was a bit silly, but that they and it did actually almost make me laugh on the Metro, and that's an achievement, so I think I will download more episodes. I feel rather confident about my listening skills now, what is holding me back now is lack of vocabulary when I don't understand something, rather than inability to recognize words I do actually know. This is the podcast by the way. I should also mention that every Wednesday I watch a Russian movie with people from my university. This week, we watched "Prisoner of the Mountains", which I had already seen once. The movies gives a little bit of extra exposure which is good, but we watch all the movies with English subtitles. As for Hungarian, I have actually done something! This is the text I worked with. It contained a lot of new words but it was an interesting text, and I think that my favorite fruit description was rather adequate (I chose pineapple). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6664 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 147 of 172 20 September 2009 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I listened to another one of those podcasts and it really annoyed me. The guy constantly has to say things in English, scream and so on. I don't understand why it should be so hard to find a decent podcast in Russian!
Other than that when it comes to Russian I haven't done much. I recorded an audio letter and yet again felt guilty about never speaking Russian. For Hungarian I did finally write a lang-8 post. It was incredibly hard and convinced me I must stop ignoring Hungarian, so I'm writing another one today. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6589 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 148 of 172 21 September 2009 at 2:50am | IP Logged | |||||
Привет Трико, Ты уже обнаружила rpod.ru? На этом сайте есть тысячи подкастов! Без сомнения ты найдешь там что-то интересное (и с яасными голосами). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6095 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 149 of 172 25 September 2009 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey tricoteuse, looking forward to read more about your Hungarian, Russian (and next possible language) adventures!
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6664 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 150 of 172 26 September 2009 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks Leo, it's always nice to hear from you!
magister among it was on that site that I found "The Big Podcast", but I decided to try another one and I did actually find a podcast that I like: Школа Жизни. It's instructive and every episode is rather short, and the readers have very pleasant voices. I have listened to perhaps five podcast so far and I do actually enjoy them. I don't enjoy listening to complete nonsense so I find this rather suitable. Besides from working on my essays, I *have* finished a French book. I wrote more about this on my blog though, so I won't repeat it all here. As for Hungarian, I have written a new lang-8 post, but I haven't published it yet. I think it needs some more work first. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6664 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 151 of 172 28 September 2009 at 11:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am getting quite good at doing Hungarian! I'm not very good at Hungarian, but that's another problem. Yesterday, I wrote another lang-8 post and I printed a chapter from a Hungarian language book that was earlier too difficult for me. The book is Lépésenként Magyarul and I think I worked with the second chapter (I got the chapters scanned, it's some all-Hungarian book they apparently use in Hungary). It was really fun working with since it was exactly my level and I could understand all of the instructions, at least so far...
I also forgot to previously write down that I worked with some more Assimil! I have no idea where I was before but now I'm at chapter 59. I don't work with the chapters as I used to do since I cannot write or type, I mostly just read them out loud and try to listen to them. Other than that I have also been reading in my grammar book, and dreaming of another one. Word Count for Anki is now 2027 for Hungarian. For Russian I have done most reading so that's in the other log. Word Count for Anki is now 3176. Oh, and I've been listening to podcasts! I listen to five of them yesterday and all were easy to understand except one, so I'm rather content. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6095 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 152 of 172 28 September 2009 at 11:18am | IP Logged | |||||
Congratulations for your achievements!
Wow. How many daily card reviews does c. 5000 words mean? And how many new cards do you add on average daily/weekly? I am stuck at... 19 words on Anki! :-D 1 person has voted this message useful |
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