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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 97 of 221 17 April 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
RUSSIAN/SPANISH
I am going to Ukraine tomorrow, so I am super excited about that! I have been listening to A LOT of Russian lately – some that I had already gone through before (Pimsleur, Teach yourself Russian) and some that was new or too advanced for me (Assimil).
I got a compliment for my Russian the other day. I called a Ukrainian friend in Belgium with whom I have always spoken French, and had decided that I was going to start out in Russian, so the conversation went as follows:
- Hello Nadia, it’s me, Cristina, from Norway.
- Oh, but you speak Russian!
- No, I speak Russian quite badly.
- No, you speak it very well, where have you learned it (followed by a lot in very quick Russian which I did not catch, so I had to go into French…)
So, not terribly impressive, but I take a compliment anywhere I can :-)
I also received the Spanish book on Russian grammar a couple of days ago, and it is amazing! The title says that it is only about cases and prepositions, but I do not think the author has actually read that, so it is about most aspects of Russian grammar. I opened it yesterday morning, and I did the first 20 exercises before breakfast, and could hardly put it down. It does not give translations for all the words they use, so I do not think I could have used it when I knew less Russian, but it is very good for my current level. It is the first time I do Russian from a Spanish book, so that feels a bit weird. I am so used to all my French books on Russian language and grammar. Another ten exercises went down this morning, and I am bringing it to Ukraine so I can do more while I am there.
And tomorrow is my birthday! That is, not my biological birthday, that one is in May, but tomorrow I have been here on this forum for a whole year, and right now I can hardly imagine my existence without it. So I want to send a big birthday hug to those of you who read my log, and I hereby invite all of you to stay at my house for a few days whenever you happen to be in Norway.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6144 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 99 of 221 17 April 2011 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
С Днём Рождения, Кристина! Я желаю что твоя поездка в Украину будет замечательная и что ты будешь говорить много с твоими друзьями по-русски (или по-украински?). Счастливого пути!
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 100 of 221 17 April 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
Thank you, Ellasevia, for the congratulation! I will definitely try to speak to them in Russian and not in Ukrainian!!!
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5337 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French
| Message 101 of 221 17 April 2011 at 8:22pm | IP Logged |
I was going to congratulate you tomorrow of course but since you’re leaving I’ll do it now to make sure you read it before you leave.
Поздравляю с днём рождения! (if that was wrong it’s Wiktionary’s fault. If it was correct I totally figured it out myself) I feel honored to almost share my forum birthday with you! Удачи in Ukraine and many happy linguistic returns!
Edited by ReneeMona on 17 April 2011 at 8:22pm
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 102 of 221 18 April 2011 at 6:15am | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristina, I wish you good and language-intensive holidays in Ukraine! Remember that's a privilege to travel to foreign countries, so you should really enjoy it.
Best wishes,
Fasulye
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5568 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 103 of 221 18 April 2011 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
¡Enhorabuena con tu cumpleaños de este foro! Que te lo pases muy bien en la Ucrania.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 104 of 221 18 April 2011 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
Happy Forum Day, Solfrid! I hope you have a wonderful time in Ukraine, and return reinvigorated and inspired, with more than enough skills to interpret Battleship Potemkin (lol). ;)
Счастливого пути! (Bon voyage!)
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