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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 113 of 292 11 August 2012 at 11:28am | IP Logged |
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Seems you had a great time in Paris. I'm so jealous :P Would love to travel sometime.
Japan is always a major goal, but I've also recently started Hungarian, and I so want to go see Eger. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 114 of 292 11 August 2012 at 12:19pm | IP Logged |
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I dream of visiting Japan one day, but flights are just too expensive. Maybe some day I'll be able to go.
My mother is still visiting from the US and I haven't done anything as far as language is concerned. I've even stopped nagging myself about studying which is definitely a bad sign. I just got back from work. My client who works for faurecia is going on vacation so maaaybe I can devote my next three Saturday mornings to French, if I'm not too busy. My husband and I are trying to buy a house (an old fixer-upper) and that requires a lot of my attention right now. This will my biggest fall project. Thanks to my house-buying project my language study will slow down even more (sound of Turkish grinding to a halt), but I've promised myself not to give up completely. Where there's a will and minutes to spare -- there's a way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 115 of 292 11 August 2012 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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There are important things in life that need attention, so don't beat yourself over it.
Looking forward to buying a new home is very exciting. Enjoy the process :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 116 of 292 24 August 2012 at 7:11pm | IP Logged |
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I'm doing my best to enjoy it but it's a bit unnerving :) Buying a house is a bit of a commitment, isn't it? The bank wants to strap us to a 30-year loan. I think once I start working full-time (a couple of years into the future) we'll be able to pay it off sooner. I hope so. 30 years is normal for a house but sounds like a long time. I'm still glad my renting days are almost behind me.
Tomorrow is Sat. and my "Saturday student" is on vacation. I'm hoping to pick up French somewhere where I left it. I try to recall stuff but I feel totally lost. What should I work on first? Irregular verbs? Reading? (nah) Listening? I have two movies I can watch tomorrow, Le Diner de Cons (I would watch again) or Un indien dans la ville (Little Indian). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 117 of 292 25 September 2012 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
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I'm still here! Sorry to my teammates out there, for not being very active in the Team this fall.
Things haven't exactly settled down for me: we're still haggling over this house-buying-thing. End of October should prove interesting since the owner is coming up from Bavaria to help with the appraisal. There's nothing to do until then. So I've started going through a few school books for French to help keep me from forgetting verbs and vocabulary. I'm half-way through chapter 3. I listen to podcasts from time to time but my listening is not to the point where I can listen and enjoy it (it's still a lot of work), so i don't listen regularly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 118 of 292 26 September 2012 at 8:22am | IP Logged |
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There you are! I was wondering a bit about you, but I figured you were busy with house-buying. It seems to be a very complicated affair. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised if you disappear again for a while around the end of October. And then again when you actually get to move. Do you have any idea about when that will be? You must be very excited. It's a lot of work, but it's also kind of fun. You get a whole new canvas to work with.
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 119 of 292 30 September 2012 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
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yep, here I am, but I'm a bit stretched. I have too many things going on. Actually there are many stops and starts in this little house-buying venture. We're actually renting the house we want, and it's on the market. Everything fits: short commute to school and work, just enough space, not to hot not to cold just right kind of thing. The problem is the price is too much because the foundation is very old. It was built back when cellars were used as refridgerators. The ground floor was renovated (we live there now) and the upper story is in a raw state and just needs a bit of wiring and some wall paper. Our landlord wants a price that's too high for the structure that it's build on and we're trying to deal with it. We've got an appraiser coming at the end of the month so..
As far as language goes I'm trying to save French from falling into that stage were it would take me ages to recall that what I've learned. I'm almost finished with chapters 4 and 5 of my book ("French-Rescue & Maintenance #1") and I hope my second book will come tomorrow. Edited by Sunja on 30 September 2012 at 6:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6445 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 120 of 292 10 October 2012 at 3:22am | IP Logged |
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Good luck with the house-buying adventure!
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