tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 81 of 329 10 January 2013 at 12:03pm | IP Logged |
New exercise I've invented: going on language exchange sites, checking out the French entries of Anglophones, and comparing them to the *corrected* versions posted by Francophones. Then I can use flashcards and my own writing to get the idiomatic phrases and corrected grammar into my head. :-)
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tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 82 of 329 10 January 2013 at 8:51pm | IP Logged |
tastyonions wrote:
I scheduled a one-hour session for Friday with a French tutor on italki! Since I've never spoken French with a single soul in my life, I imagine this will be pretty nerve-racking. |
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And I just realized minutes ago that I scheduled this session for 2:00 - 3:00 AM Friday, i.e. in the middle of the night about 11 hours from now, when I meant to schedule it for 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. LOL!
Oh well, it's too late to change it at this point (at least if I want to have it tomorrow), so I'm just going to stay up tonight and go for it anyway. :-)
Edited by tastyonions on 10 January 2013 at 8:56pm
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songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5209 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 83 of 329 10 January 2013 at 9:37pm | IP Logged |
tastyonions wrote:
tastyonions wrote:
I scheduled a one-hour session for Friday with a French tutor on italki! Since I've never spoken French with a single soul in my life, I imagine this will be pretty nerve-racking. |
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And I just realized minutes ago that I scheduled this session for 2:00 - 3:00 AM Friday, i.e. in the middle of the night about 11 hours from now, when I meant to schedule it for 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. LOL!
Oh well, it's too late to change it at this point (at least if I want to have it tomorrow), so I'm just going to stay up tonight and go for it anyway. :-) |
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That's pretty funny. - Best of luck; I look forward to hearing how it went!
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Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4682 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German
| Message 84 of 329 10 January 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged |
tastyonions wrote:
I'm just going to stay up tonight and go for it anyway. :-) |
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That's the spirit!
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tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 85 of 329 11 January 2013 at 8:36am | IP Logged |
Well, thirty-five minutes into the hour and the person who was scheduled to tutor me seems not to have gotten on Skype (at least, Skype says my text messages couldn't be delivered, and trying to call them didn't work either). And they aren't on italki at the moment, either, so I have no way to contact them.
Looks like this is a bust.
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songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5209 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 86 of 329 11 January 2013 at 8:48am | IP Logged |
tastyonions wrote:
Looks like this is a bust. |
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Sorry to hear that. Did you manage to spend the waiting time doing some extensive reading or Assimil lessons, at
least...?
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tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 87 of 329 11 January 2013 at 8:51am | IP Logged |
Not really, I spent the bulk of it flailing around making sure that my Skype wasn't the problem and that I hadn't missed any special protocol for how to do a tutoring session. Time for bed I guess. :-/
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 88 of 329 11 January 2013 at 11:20am | IP Logged |
That's not reassuring; I've been thinking about doing conversation lessons through Italki with a tutor, with the hope that people might be a bit more reliable and serious when there's money involved. Apparently not :/ or maybe you were just unlucky.
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