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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 929 of 1511 01 November 2013 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks. I remember Loïc Cheveau. His homepage is a bookmark. Very useful for some Breton
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 930 of 1511 03 November 2013 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Korean
I've had a lot of free time and worked through the first 10 lessons of TTMIK level 3 - I can feel my grip on Korean increasing a bit. It'll be necessary, but I'll explain why in detail in a second - tomorrow will be a huge challenge. To do so, I've been improving my Korean grammar - which is necessary. I particularly like studying Korean right now because it is built very differently - it's a new thing to me. I like new things. Hebrew I've been writing a bit in Hebrew on InterPals. I still need a dictionary for a lot of words, but my problem is more with the vocabulary than with grammar here. Oh god it really has been too long. Russian Today I found out that there are Russians living not far away from me. One contacted me through Interpals and we met up today and talked in Russian for more than two hours while walking around town (a neighbouring village to where I live). It was particularly excellent because I don't have troubles anymore with keeping up a conversation - I can fully engage and interact, there aren't any communicational barriers, or if there are, they are not many. People feel quite at ease (and the girl I was talking to was wowed by my use of slang, which I tend to throw in when speaking Russian - I am terrible at literary Russian but very good at using all the fillers that Russian has like че), leading her to say I talk like a Russian. (and not like a foreigner). That I can talk for 2 hours in Russian socially is not a record (I've done it before) but it is the first time it's been this fluent and correct. It's the first time not everything has gone over my head, I had to deal with a southern Russian accent on top of that, and where I could interact without trouble. Victory is mine. Edited by tarvos on 03 November 2013 at 9:31pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 931 of 1511 03 November 2013 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Italki Marathon
Tomorrow, I will also engage in a personal experiment. I have booked 4 hours of classes (5 languages) for tomorrow. This means that I will have to switch, during the day, sometimes directly, between French, Korean, Hebrew, Romanian and Russian (in that order). Romanian and Hebrew are half an hour each, the others are an hour. What I am trying to test is how well I respond to continuous switching, interferences, and other skills. I won't have time to study some of these languages in more detail (I'll stay away from Russian class for a while and likely Romanian as well), but it will test my endurance. They're almost all from different language families, different types of languages, a very complex task thus. Let's see if I can maintain a polyglot day tomorrow! Tomorrow night is band practice so I will be able to relax afterwards. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 932 of 1511 03 November 2013 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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This sounds like a fascinating idea! I'm looking forward to your report. Good luck on your polyglot day!
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| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5409 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 933 of 1511 03 November 2013 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
That's great news, congrats ! Russian has always fascinated and scared me because I can't wrap my mind around the stress. Maybe it's time I try to tackle it with a 100% audio approach...Are you aware of any good audio only beginner material for Russian (I've read mixed review of MT) ? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 934 of 1511 03 November 2013 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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No, and I haven't used it either. Sorry. I used several beginner's materials and it took
me forever to work out something good. I don't really like audio-only anyways - I actually learned most of my Russian from chatting online. Edited by tarvos on 03 November 2013 at 10:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 935 of 1511 04 November 2013 at 11:11am | IP Logged | ||
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So far, after two lessons: my French was horrible this morning and my Korean was even
worse. Let's hope I do better soon... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6553 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish | Message 936 of 1511 04 November 2013 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
I think TTMIK level 3 is my favorite in terms of how and what it teaches. Have fun! But I want to ask - do you often do 3 or more lessons in one day? Do you review them afterwards? My experience was that I forgot the new constructions rather quickly if I didn't review them - and I was studying only 3-5 new lessons per week. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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