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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 1 of 114 06 December 2011 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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This will be the thread for the Team Žá where everyone speaks or studies one Romance and one Slavic language (or more than one). Everyone is welcome to join!
What is this about? See the official TAC 2012 thread! By the way, while technically Latin and Esperanto aren't Romance languages, they also count. Members and languages: Serpent: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian; Russian (native), Croatian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish + the language of the country that wins Euro 2012 (unless it's France) Kerrie: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese; Bosnian/Croatian JoãoCorreia: Portuguese (native), French; Russian zecchino1991: Romanian, Italian; Russian GRagazzo: Italian, Sicilian, Spanish; Russian tennisace: Spanish, French; Croatian Amerykanka: Spanish, Latin; Polish AlephBey: Spanish; Russian mick33: Italian, Spanish; Polish pineappleboom: French; Russian kyknos: Latin, Spanish; Czech (native), Slovak Gallo1801: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan; Croatian chlwrd3: Portuguese; Russian, Polish becks: Spanish; Russian Cutter: Spanish, French; Russian, Croatian http://justpaste.it/codigo_fuente - code for those that want to post these links in their logs. That's not required! This code will be updated as needed. Members are more than welcome to introduce themselves and describe their goals and reasons to study this or that language:) Resources etc Consistency thread Funny/interesting twitter accounts. Quite many in Spanish and especially Portuguese. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - great stuff for Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese; nice introductions to Russian and Polish http://gloss.dliflc.edu/Default.aspx free lessons in a lot of languages http://multilingualbooks.com/ - free legal books in many languages (thanks João!) collections of collections of... collections of resources compiled by Volte http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/ - free vocabulary lessons (thanks zecchino1991!) http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/index.html - useful phrases, authentic videos on everyday situations, cultural information, travel advice. Thanks to Chung! My favourite add-ons for Firefox - not all are useful for language learning but hopefully some will be helpful (check out fuzzytime especially) Edited by Serpent on 15 March 2012 at 10:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5258 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 2 of 114 06 December 2011 at 5:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi! I am studying Romanian and Russian. I am studying Russian at my university, mostly
because I just like it but also because I am planning to go to Russia with my mother some day. As for Romanian, I don't really have a reason for learning it. I just like it! I am currently studying it for the 6 week challenge. Edited by zecchino1991 on 06 December 2011 at 5:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4961 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 114 06 December 2011 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm studying Spanish and Italian, and also Polish
I'm studying Italian because of heritage and Spanish because it I learn it in school. I am pretty decent in both but definently more fluent in Italian. My main goal is too reach native fluency in Italian and just get advanced in Spanish. I decided to begin Polish because I want a challenge and because Slavic languages excite me. I don't really have a goal in it, just get as far as I can and hopefully reach an intermediate to advanced level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 4 of 114 06 December 2011 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fantastic! Welcome :))))
zecchino1991, such a fascinating list of languages :) will you be also studying Italian, btw? :) I've read your profile and my situation is so similar to yours, I watch lots of football (soccer), listen to music but I feel I have some gaps in the basic stuff though I've recently got Italiano per medici for fun and I understand the texts quite well. And I have too little motivation for basic textbooks with stuff like "this is a table" (though I recently found an Italian textbook for Croatians and that's better:) I have the same situation in Spanish (but I know less) and somewhat better in Portuguese (it was my first proper Romance language so the basic stuff wasn't boring at first, but I never fully mastered the verb system because I see it as a screwed up version of the Latin one.....sigh) What are your goals, are you trying to bridge this gap with Italian? I'm quite shy so my first goal is writing fluency - in Italian and Portuguese. Maybe already next year??? would be awesome... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5258 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 5 of 114 07 December 2011 at 1:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I've never really been studying Italian per se. I have just learned it various ways
(mostly from music) over time. So I will continue learning it just as I always have. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 6 of 114 07 December 2011 at 2:48am | IP Logged | ||
I'm trying to see how to learn to write without this proper studying thing:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JoaoCorreia Triglot Newbie Portugal Joined 4760 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, FrenchC2 | Message 7 of 114 07 December 2011 at 2:55am | IP Logged | ||
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You could read a book, summarize each chapter and post it on lang-8. You would be improving your vocabulary, your grammar, your reading, your spelling and you would be having fun by following the storyline.
Could work! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 8 of 114 07 December 2011 at 3:15am | IP Logged | ||
(is it okay to occasionally write in your L2? i kinda got in the Portuguese mode when watching Coelho's twitcam (zomg Brazilian Portuguese is still so hard for me ;__;) so I couldn't resist. subjectively, I'd assume it's okay to do in the Romance languages but not in the Slavic ones? The Romance ones are quite transparent with English and googletranslate handles them better too... Especially writing in Russian would be unfair as not everyone can read Cyrillics. I promise I won't write in Russian at least, well without a translation:)) does the forum autocorrect Italiano to Italiano? :S Edited by Serpent on 07 December 2011 at 3:18am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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