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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 73 of 336 23 September 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been catching up with Por ella soy Eva through On Demand and I'm quite
enjoying the earlier episodes. They deal a lot with gender issues, especially (though not exclusively) through Eva/Juan Carlos, a man who sees what it's really like to be a woman, especially one who isn't young and attractive. The added plus is that through On Demand the closed captioning is in sync, whereas it gets out of sync when it airs at its regular time which makes it almost useless. Airing at the same time on another channel is another telenovela with the same actor, Los Existosos Perez, which I have found is easier to understand. But unfortunately it's not on On Demand so I would need to find some other way to catch up with it. I have decided that while watching TV and reading Harry Potter are very nice, I need to make a stronger effort to make my Spanish more active. I've gotten into a more set schedule at work and just got through an 8-9 day run so I ought to be able to. I don't have any specific goal in mind for my Spanish but it'd be nice to get up to some kind of conversational level so that it could be of some use at work. I plan on actively learning vocab and phrases (concentrating on hospitality industry I suppose), being more consistent with Assimil (I keep saying that so time to do it) and practicing the main verbs. I'll also try to write on a regular basis. To that end I've written a bit on Lang-8. My first Spanish entry was to be expected: quite a bit of red back though sometimes it was just for little things ("de" vs. "del"). My latest one is suspiciously too good - just a couple of mistakes that were simply word choice though it may not have been corrected all the way (which I suspect is the case). You can check out my journal here: http://lang- 8.com/121496/journals I was able to work through a fairly serious guest service issue at work thanks to my French which made my coworkers and managers happy. And though I wasn't able to read as much because it was busy, I did get manage some: rétropédaler: to backpeddle l'alternance: (politique) change in power tant/aussi sur le fond que sur la forme: in form/content as well as substace un Grenelle: a political conference (the sort that ends with an agreement or treaty). The origin of this expression is explained here. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4634 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 74 of 336 23 September 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Good luck with Spanish!
Also, thanks for putting those little phrases/vocab words on your log the last two posts. I never heard of "sur le qui vive" but when I read your log, I saw it used in a chatroom a few hours later. Are you using the Assimil with the French base or English? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 75 of 336 23 September 2012 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks! Good to know people appreciate it! I find that's the way it works with vocab -
you learn it once and then you suddenly encounter it everywhere. I regret not following the news more before because I always get great vocab from it. I'm using Assimil with French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 76 of 336 24 September 2012 at 1:47am | IP Logged | |||||
My Spanish-speaking coworker confirmed that I in fact made very few errors which really surprises me. I had to look up a lot of stuff so I expected some preposition errors and whatnot at the very least. And for one of the word choice errors I was about to use the "correct" one when I decided it looked like the other one was used more. Well, we'll see next time if it was just a fluke. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 77 of 336 29 September 2012 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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Just finished Harry Potter y la cámara secreta today so I get to move on to what many
identify as their favorite book in the series. I think I'm getting more into the flow of reading in Spanish now. Some passages I barely glance over at the English except for the odd vocabulary word here and there. I wrote some more for Lang-8. This time my entry was hardly as flawless but I suppose that's because I had to mix verb times a lot more and quite a bit of the vocabulary/expressions I looked up didn't work out right. It took me a good hour to come up with a short paragraph as well. One method I've used to activate my study of Spanish has been Memrise. Let me just say how much I'm loving this site for learning new vocabulary! I've tried using pre-made Anki decks and I just couldn't get into it. I love how Memrise presents the words in several ways, working on getting me to recognize and then produce vocabulary. I'm working through the first 5000 words in Spanish deck and trying out some advanced French ones. I looked for Irish ones but I haven't found any at beginning level that have audio, example sentences and the like and so if anyone has found one let me know! I'm going to a production of Rhinoceros by Ionesco performed in French tonight so I'll spend the evening surrounded by my lovely Frenchies. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 78 of 336 08 October 2012 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been making some decent progress in Spanish. I decided to see if I was good enough
to skip Pimsleur I and start in directly on II with the background I already have and I found that I could. There were only a couple words that were unknown to me. I was wanting to use it to hopefully get some of the accent benefit but was really dreading going through the whole "You're a businessman in Latin America and you see a local woman" thing. Continuing with Memrise which I'm really loving. I think I have about 200 plants in my garden now. Making progress towards 5000. I'm now halfway through Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban. I also watched a bit of the first movie with the Spanish language track and I found that after getting used to watching Spanish television that it's really easy to follow. I've been writing on Lang-8. My near perfect post was a bit of a fluke in that my next one had many more errors. I chalked it up to the fact that I had to mix tenses a lot more in that one. But I just started a series that will be an alternate ending to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and my first post only had minor mistakes even with quite a bit of tense mixing. I also wrote an entry in French but was loosely translating from something I had already written in English. That turned out to be a minor disaster. Not only was it really hard for me to write but it came back with tons of mistakes. Which shows it's a good exercise - I probably have plenty of "work- arounds" I'm not aware of when writing directly in French to overcome anything I don't know and translating directly from my own writing shows how I'm deficient in expressing exactly what I want. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 79 of 336 08 October 2012 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Eww. That sounds really kinda skeevy, now that you mention it. My biggest yuck in French is the portrayal of Africans in older bandes dessinées. A lot of newer stuff, fortunately, is amazingly good—contrast the excellent Immigrants with Tintin au Congo.
Yeah, when I write in French, I think in French. This limits my range of expression, but tends to reduce the number of outright linguistic train wrecks. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 80 of 336 08 October 2012 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yup since I used the short Pimsleur Irish course one of the few things I know how to say is "Would you like something to drink at my place?" (Ar mhaith leat rud éigin a ól ag mo thighse?) That and say that I'm American, that I only speak a little Irish and ask for directions. What more does a tourist need to know? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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