Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 153 of 338 14 January 2013 at 1:08pm | IP Logged |
Ok people, I'll write shorter next time. I had promised Ogrim an explanation and I'm glad
I made my point.
I'm having main troubles with syntax/word order, so I think it's about the time for
checking a grammar reference like the one Cristina has been reading =D
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Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4355 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish
| Message 154 of 338 17 January 2013 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
Norwegian, Chinese, Russian and Georgian. That's an impressive list of languages!
Once I'm "done" with Swedish I want to pick up Norwegian as well and I'm already day
dreaming about Chinese/Russian/Spanish but that's far future. I'll be following your log
to see how you get along with doing them at the same time, might get me more motivated to
do 2 languages next year.
Lycka till/Lykke til!
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 155 of 338 17 January 2013 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
Thanks, Kez! Some days are better than others. Sometimes I have burnout right after
Russian, usually half an hour of rest and playing games is enough for me to get in the
mood for proceeding to Georgian. When I was workingm there were very few days at which I
couldn't accomplish the schedule up to Norwegian. These 4 languages are different enough
from each other, so, it's like I'm resting when I move on t the next one.
Besides this log, I have one more for Georgia and another for Russian (plus one for
French which is not in the TAC), but I believe the Norwegian one will have the most of
attempts like trying out native materials and writing.
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Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4355 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish
| Message 156 of 338 22 January 2013 at 12:01pm | IP Logged |
Yeah I can imagine that some days are better than others. Have you already started
reading some Norwegian (children)books? or are you sticking to textbooks?
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 157 of 338 22 January 2013 at 12:25pm | IP Logged |
I'm still at textbooks, I have a long way to go. Ideally, I should be doing textbooks
first then reading a little right after, but my time for Norwegian is the most limited as
it is an extra language I've added to my schedule and I still have 3 others before I go
for it.
Today if things go well I'll be able to study a bit more. I don't even remember at which
lesson I stopped at TY Norwegian =D I guess it was lesson 4.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 158 of 338 22 January 2013 at 3:12pm | IP Logged |
Oddly enough, at lessons 6 and 7 at TY Norwegian not all dialogues are recorded. Anyway,
I'm glad I'm about to end the first half of the book. The dialogues tell a story and make
more sense than Assimil's.
I'm really glad I could do some Norwegian today. I'm getting more used to the spoken
language, and reading the dialogues isn't much difficult either. Pity that I can't take
the small challenges, no time for that. Norwegian is the only language I'm currently
learning that I could take LanguageSponge's challenges for.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 159 of 338 23 January 2013 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
I thought I wouldn't have time for Norwegian today, but here six minutes after noon,
having just finished TYN's lesson 8! About illnesses, but much more interesting dialogues
than the ones I found at Colloquial Chinese 2 on the same subject. I'm getting motivated
about Norwegian, can't wait to start actually using the language. This week I still have
limited access to the computer (limited by my brother, should I say), but when I get back
to work I'm going to try and practice more, maybe some challenges.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 160 of 338 24 January 2013 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
Still in love with TY Norwegian's dialogues. Pity that only one or two are recorded per
lesson.
At lesson 9, the main character is working in a shop. She adresses a customer with De. Is
it still the case? In Brazil the main situation where one would expect the highly format
"o senhor/a senhora" is by salespeople to adress customers (especially the horrible
telemarketing salespeople).
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