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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5393 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 177 of 236 15 September 2012 at 10:43am | IP Logged | |||||
Nor Cal so I get access to Link+. I think I'll go over to the library after work one of these days and start browsing. It definitely is convenient living somewhere that has so many foreign language resources :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5397 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 178 of 236 15 September 2012 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
¡Gracias! I'll take a raincheck on the HP party, though. (My allergies have been kicking my butt. My eyes are infected and I can't even keep them open for more than an hour or two at a time.) Give me a few days and then we'll party. =) Besides, now I have to go finish Using French. THAT will be an occasion to party! If I can finish it by Thursday, we could have a birthday party and an HP party at the same time. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 179 of 236 15 September 2012 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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aww what a cool expression:) thanks for reminding that English is a wonderful language too! :D
a birthday party sounds fantastic! how many French lessons do you have left? and should I add anything to the competed goals at the consistency thread? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5397 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 180 of 236 15 September 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
I would imagine your public libraries have lots of stuff, especially for Spanish. I am surprised how much stuff our library has for French, but most of it is older, so they may have been donated from an estate or something. Then there is always the internet. =)
Haha. Consistency? I'm really not sure what that is anymore. =) I only have 7 or 8 lessons left for the French, and I am going to try to double up this week because I want to be finished with it. =) Right now, though, I have five children instead of two, and they're being particularly noisy. My head is really not happy about it. Maybe if I turn my mp3 player with songs in 10 languages on, I can scare them off. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5397 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 181 of 236 15 September 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow. I just finished filling up my second spiral notebook of copying French lessons. Granted, the second one was already half-used, but still.. that's more than 100 pages front and back of writing French. It's really strange, too. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. I wonder if that feeling ever goes away, or if that really means that I'm making progress. :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5393 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 182 of 236 16 September 2012 at 10:11am | IP Logged | |||||
That feeling still hasn't gone away. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4907 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 183 of 236 16 September 2012 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm afraid this feeling will never go away. I recently read Marlowe's Doctor Faustus for my Advanced Super Challenge and realised that even after over 20 years of studying English I couldn't name all seven deadly sins (I missed out sloth and gluttony), which I think is a bit embarrassing, because I consider this common knowledge. Now, reading Robert Louis Stevenson, I realise I really need to work on my knowledge of trees and plants... So, I take this feeling as an orientation on what to work next. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5397 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 184 of 236 16 September 2012 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
There are things that I don't know in my native language. I remember reading The Plains of Passage (the fourth book of the Clan of the Cave Bear series) and feeling lost because I didn't know half of the plant names she used. (Of course, the author was a botanist, and most native speakers were probably wondering what she was talking about, too!) Some of it is definitely worth learning, but (to me) some of that stuff is better going in one ear and out the other. =) You're right, though. With French, I know there are lots (and lots and lots) of holes in my grammar. Things that I can understand, but I wouldn't know what form to use. I haven't figured out the tous-tout thing. I still haven't figured out the rules for using de vs du or de la. That's one of the weaknesses of Assimil, I think. (And realistically, I could find out in five minutes if I opened my grammar book or just googled it!) I'm not worried about it, but I know those holes are there. After I finish Using French this week, I'll start using Practice Makes Perfect Complete French Grammar. I'll also start using Anki - I'm thinking 20 words a day should be manageable, especially since a lot of the focus will be to bring passive words into my active vocabulary. And I'll pick one of the dual-language books someone posted years ago. I will have to poke through them and see which one is best for my level. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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