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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 457 of 1511 07 January 2013 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
Oh! Well then kol hakavod! (good job). :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 458 of 1511 07 January 2013 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Todah! Today will be spent mostly on thesis stuff and maybe band prac, we'll see whether
I get anything (except Breton) done. Edited by tarvos on 07 January 2013 at 11:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4676 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 459 of 1511 07 January 2013 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
Does it mean that you'll do some Breton no matter what, or that you won't do any Breton? In any case, I suggest that you do study Breton more! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 460 of 1511 07 January 2013 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do Breton no matter what. My goal, is, in fact, to go the whole Assimil unbroken and do
some Breton every day until I have finished both waves. So far, I have amassed 66 consecutive days of Breton, started the active wave on time, and managed to sit a thermodynamics exam while writing a thesis, playing in a band, and chatting in Russian while reading Swedish novels and going to French classes, as well as celebrate Xmas and New Year! Edited by tarvos on 07 January 2013 at 2:29pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 461 of 1511 07 January 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Your achievements are really impressive. I wished I had so much tenaciousness. There has not been much room for studying languages besides working, travelling to Denmark, practising for my orchestra, celebrating Christmas and New Year, eating, sleeping, and following all the other mundane commitments one has to do, so I'd be happy if I could show such achievements as you.
Well, anywho: Good luck with your studies and your TAC in 2013! See you on Team MIR and Clan Lugus. Успехов! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 462 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 12:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Russian Discovery of the Day
So, I have made a discovery of the day. This doesn't concern a really intricate grammar point or the aspects of the tenses; rather, it's an aspect of colloquial, and slangy Russian that you might come across when talking to or chatting with Russians both in real life and on the internet. As you might know, I have spoken Russian quite often, and I have a select group of friends who I write to and chat with, entirely in Russian. You read that right - I am maintaining these friendships through Russian without using Any English Whatsoever. And yes, I am doing it through Grammatically Incorrect Russian. But I have spoken to these people for months, I have been talking to them for over half a year now, entirely in Russian. But during these chats you come across a lot of new words. I used to have to use a dictionary to almost translate responses word for word. But over time I got better. Nowadays I barely need a dictionary, and they praise me on my Russian and they are very happy to speak to me and help me out! However, some things still remained unclear to me, and I'll address one in particular. To indicate a sort of future tense in Russian, you can use Я пойду + infinitive, a common combination is я пойду спать. However, whenever my friends in Siberia would announce they were going to bed (they are six hours ahead of me, so they are often up late when I haven't had dinner yet, and they'll go to bed... or sometimes they will stay up until five and not go to sleep before I have gone to sleep either...), they would say Я спать. (entirely leaving out the пойду). Now, you can occasionally leave out the verb to go in the present tense. But I didn't know you could also do it in the future tense. So I asked and I said something like сейчас я писать диссертацию. But she said it was better to add the пойду. So I asked what's the difference? She said in principle there is no difference. You can leave out пойду when you talk, but not when you write; however, some people are simply lazy, and leave it out when chatting anyway (it's colloquial, after all!). So it turns out that this tarzan way of expressing sleep (I to-sleep?), is actually fairly normal in speech! (I have taken to using it when appropriate, of course). But it's also telling that you've improved when this sort of thing is what you notice, and not a new verb conjugation. Or a new grammatical feature. Everything Else I have of course managed my daily lesson of Breton, even though... BR: skuizh on, ha dav eo din mont da gousket, neuze n'm eus ket zesket mat brezhoneg. Met deskin am eus brezhoneg c'hoaz, hag emichañs e c'hallin dont da soñj da unan bennak warc'hoazh. Marteze az ain a-benn. N'eo ket gwir, sur eo ha az ain a-benn. Noz vat! Edited by tarvos on 08 January 2013 at 1:03am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 463 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 12:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting! I didn't know that. I need to get some Russian people to talk to!
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 464 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry I didn't even wish you a happy new year before. I hope this counts ;)
That's very interesting, but of no use for me right now / yet. However, it is floating around in my head now, awaiting the opportunity to integrate into my Russian -- thanks for sharing something you might not be told about that easily! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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