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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 28 10 August 2012 at 12:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Just wanted to thank you for mentioning this assimil epicness :D Couldn't resist trying it out :)
I think most people who've done this course will say this sentence several times though, while telling others that a language course they did had sentences like this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 28 10 August 2012 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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The German with Ease is even more entertaining. Of all the ones I've done, it is the best. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 28 10 August 2012 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Really???? Examples? :DDDDD
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 12 of 28 10 August 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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oh cool - my choices for the next challenge are down to German or Russian. Glad to hear
that German Assimil is a good one. I'm debating trying it in a French base, but am not sure yet. Of course, with Russian I can pester Serpent with questions : ) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 28 10 August 2012 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
I will start posting some of them in my log. We don't want to hijack Kanewai's log. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 14 of 28 10 August 2012 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||
Um I mean I do, but I have no clue about Russian as a foreign language. I can explain, for example, the connotations, but not the rules. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 15 of 28 29 August 2012 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I went epic with my Spanish this month. I re-did the entire Pimsleur Level 2, and
finished the first volume (15 lessons) of FSI Spanish Basic. FSI Spanish is much less intense than FSI French. A lot of this was review for me. I couldn't actively recall my Spanish, but when I was triggered it would come back to me. It was like forgetting the name of an old friend - once you hear it again you think, "oh yeah, of course!" I'll be on the road a lot the next two weeks. I'll bring my Assimil along. I don't like studying aloud on trains and planes, but I think I should be able to do my lessons at the station. By mid-September I want to be entering new territory. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 16 of 28 17 September 2012 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish: End of the Six Week Challenge
Here's what 37 hours over six weeks got me: 17 hours of FSI (completed Volume I of the Basic Course) 13 hours of Pimsleur (completed level II) 7.5 hours of Assimil [re-started the course from lesson 50 (passive) and 1 (active)] I did even more hours with French, but that was almost all reading and movies rather than actively studying. In some ways I feel like I'm back to where I was almost exactly a year ago (mother has just died in the bathroom, again). I'm sure I have a strong base, but I'm hitting the same type of information overload that I hit last year. This weekend FSI covered two types of past tense, while Assimil introduced the subjunctive (passive phase) and the imperfect (active). It's almost too much to do all at once, and I can't keep any of it straight. When I knew less (with Pimsleur) I could speak more. Now that I know more it all becomes jumbled and I can speak less. This has only happened to me with Spanish; I've never felt it with other languages. I think it's something I need to push past. I leave for Guatemala in seven weeks, so the clock is ticking for me to get past this hump! My current plan of attack is: 1. To suck it up and make a verb reference chart. 2. To put FSI on hold for a bit. I am currently on Spanish Basic Volume 2 (lesson 17). I like the course, and will come back to it. My experience with FSI French was that I needed to take frequent breaks. I'd hit a chapter that was too advanced for me; I'd set it aside, continue with my Assimil, and then when I came back to FSI it was easier to work through the new drills. 3. Keep on with Assimil Spanish with Ease. I think I can finish the passive wave before I leave. I'm currently on lesson 67; I stopped out at lesson 70 last year. 4. Do the next round of audio tapes on my commute. This morning I started Michel Thomas Espagnol Perfectionnement (French base). I'm seriously thrilled that my French is good enough for me to use this course, and am secretly hoping that someone will ask what I'm listening to so that I can show them. But no one ever does. I'll follow this with Pimsleur III, and I've ordered Michel Thomas Spanish Master Class (English base; formerly the Language Builder, I think). Edited by kanewai on 17 September 2012 at 11:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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