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| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 41 of 152 15 December 2010 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
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Starting to understand a little bit more of the SBS Italian program. I also re-read chapter 1 of Harry Potter and found that I now understand a lot of the words that I highlighted the first time around - this is a promising sign! Still ploughing through Assimil and getting more accurate with the active wave. Edited by Oasis88 on 15 December 2010 at 12:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 42 of 152 16 December 2010 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
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Flirting with Anki again! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emiliana Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5113 days ago 81 posts - 98 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 43 of 152 16 December 2010 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Oasis!
I really appreciate what you are doing and I am fascinated by your motivation and your strong will. But I have one question: What do you do besides language studying? I mean do you have a regular job, school, university or anything like this? I just made a rough calculation and I realized that you spend about 7 or 8 hours each day (!) in studying! So I really want to know how you do that! Are you a genius or something? Don't you sleep? ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 44 of 152 16 December 2010 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Emiliana. Thanks for your encouragement. I do work full time. I am currently on holidays so there is no way that I'll be able to maintain this kind of progress indefinitely. It will be interesting to see how many hours I can put in when I go back to work. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 45 of 152 18 December 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
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I've been doing a little research on the Italian CELI certificates. I wonder what exam I could comfortably pass after my 1,000 hours. Tonight I worked through the A1 and A2 exams and I don't think I'd have many problems if I were to sit either of those tomorrow. http://www.cvcl.it/MEDIACENTER/FE/CategoriaMedia.aspx?idc=64 &explicit=SI Does anyone have any experience with these? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 46 of 152 19 December 2010 at 4:32pm | IP Logged |
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Been hungover and have not made as much time for Italian as I'd have liked. Oops. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 47 of 152 20 December 2010 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
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I came across this article today which I was really glad to read. It perfectly summarises my ideas for learning languages or any other skill. Edited by Oasis88 on 20 December 2010 at 1:19pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5704 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 48 of 152 21 December 2010 at 11:37am | IP Logged |
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Today was a little frustrating. After spending most of the day looking at rental properties I came across a guy who was talking to another woman about Buenos Aires, both of whom were looking at the same property as me. I asked the gentleman if he was from Argentina and he replied that he was so I struck up a Spanish conversation. What a disaster! Every couple of words I either directly substituted the Italian word or correctly chose the Spanish word but pronounced it with an Italian accent. After 2-3 minutes we switched to English. Fail. Being from Buenos Aires it was clear that he also had a strong Italian influence so he understood the language quite well. We had a good laugh. It is now clear to me that my spoken Spanish is really suffering. At this point I really feel as though my spoken Italian would rate more highly than that of my Spanish probably because I've been living it breathing it over the last 10 weeks. Thankfully my reading ability is still relatively strong - I doubt that will evaporate in a hurry but I could be mistaken. Has anyone had this problem while learning a 2nd/3rd romance language? Will I separate the two after a bit more study? Oh well. I'm now even more motivated to study and conquer these two beautiful languages. Edited by Oasis88 on 21 December 2010 at 11:38am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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