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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 137 20 January 2013 at 5:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Today, we had a 2-hour chat, mostly in Esperanto with some French and German thrown in for good
measure. I hope to be able to try out some interpretation practice next time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 137 21 January 2013 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pimsleur Romanian Experiment (2)
I have now finished Pimsleur Romanian's 10 units, which I believe is the basic course. I now know virtually nothing. There has been no mention of gender or cases and the only verb conjugations covered are 1st sing and 2nd plur persons of a handful of verbs (I'd be surprised if it was more than 6 or 7). The whole bit about people adding or removing fingers ad infinitum to get me to count was annoying -- oddly, they left out 6 and 7!!! -- and it was also annoying to hear the guy and the woman argue endlessly about what time they'd go for a beer and how she wasn't interested and he just wasn't getting it. I did enjoy being able to listen on the bus or on the go when I couldn't have studied otherwise and it does make you concentrate on the pronunciation. I often wished I could see the words written as well, though. I think I would have remembered better. The full course is said to have a total of 30 lessons and be "comprehensive". I doubt 3 times this material could be considered comprehensive anything. To finish, I'd have to buy 5 units at a time for $21.95, for about $100 with taxes for the rest of the course. I don't think I'll be buying them, but if my library had them, I would probably continue. Edited by Arekkusu on 21 January 2013 at 9:24pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 11 of 137 21 January 2013 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
That sounds much like my time with Pimsleur French, which was also my first exposure to learning the language, though I stopped before getting all the way through the course. Some people seem to really like Pimsleur but I found it rather frustrating. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 12 of 137 21 January 2013 at 9:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Indeed, though I think it's worth doing at times when no other study is possible. If anyone has any suggestions of what to do next with Romanian, I'm all ears. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 13 of 137 22 January 2013 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I made the same experience with Pimsleur. Personally I cannot stand to listen to it. I
generally don't do well with audio-only methods because I zone out, but knowing that I'm wasting my time learning only 5-6 words max in 30 minutes (some forum member counted all words in 3 levels at one point), it becomes completely unbearable.
How'bout looking at some Assimil Romanian dialogs when you have time and then listening to the audio dialogs on repeat while commuting? Romanian is similar enough that you should be able to match the audio to the meaning once you've read over the translation a few times. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 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 14 of 137 22 January 2013 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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And Romanian orthography is very logical to boot.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 15 of 137 23 January 2013 at 1:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just posted my week summary in my log. In a nutshell, I did well in terms of finding
time to read and watch videos in my target languages, and posting two long texts to lang- 8, but I need to do more towards my goal of having target-language conversations, and I've fallen behind on Anki. I'm seriously wondering whether I should participate in the February 6 Week Challenge. I want to eventually try Thai this year, but right now I'm afraid that I might not give it the focus it deserves, because I'm absorbed in Greek/Chinese and generally not in the mood to do much "studying" studying. An alternative would be to attempt to reach reading fluency in Portuguese or Swedish. Or just skip the 6 Week Challenge entirely this time... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 16 of 137 23 January 2013 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm skipping it myself. I will still continue to work on pushing German to C1/C2, Esperanto into a stronger C1 and Japanese (mostly maintenance), and Romanian to a lesser degree (maybe to B1?), but I find the challenge cumbersome and sometimes stressful as I get a feeling of obligation from it that gets annoying.
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