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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 249 of 251 05 March 2015 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
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I've been listening to some French music recently, including watching music videos on YouTube. In particular, I've
become obsessed with this video, Maître Gims -- Zombie. Besides the obvious pathos, my thought when I first saw this was "[expletive], this is some dark [expletive]." I won't say any more for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen this before, except to note that yes, this video is CLEARLY a metaphor. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 250 of 251 24 March 2015 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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Is anyone else getting email updates anymore? I haven't gotten a single one since the technical problems wiped out
a week of posts. It's making it very hard to interact with the forum anymore. In any event, I've finally had some meaningful Hebrew action. Spurred on by St. Patrick's Day, I watched some youtube videos in Irish (No Béarla-a series about the status of Irish as a living language you can use in real life in Ireland), which led me to want to learn more Hebrew. The attitude about Irish as a "secondary" language to English, learned universally but imperfectly, but which people are nevertheless proud of as a part of the national identity, resonated with the status of Hebrew in the 21st century Jewish diaspora for me. I spent some time reading the Hebrew version of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" to my daughter, who enjoyed it a great deal, especially when she came across her favorite words (yes, she has favorite words, I think). I listened to a news podcast in Hebrew, read some more Harry Potter in Hebrew, and did a few Assimil lessons, as well. I think I should give Assimil a chance. With the receptive knowledge I have already, I bet that simply giving Assimil a chance would get me to a basic conversational level after a couple of months. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 251 of 251 20 April 2015 at 12:40am | IP Logged |
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Assimil L'Hebreu continues to go well. Around lesson 30 it finally got up to speed where I'm having to learn some
words each lesson. Grammar is still very much a basic review. Doing some self-talk I've surprised myself in how many ideas I can express actively in Hebrew, if I allow for some weird circumlocutions. A nice bonus is that I get a little bit of French maintenance for free along with the Hebrew. I haven't signed up yet, but I am expecting to make it to the Polyglot Conference in NYC this fall! Edited by geoffw on 20 April 2015 at 12:40am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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