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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 25 of 137 30 January 2013 at 3:51pm | IP Logged |
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Shyly, I began to do some self-talk in Romanian, but it's obviously still very embryonic. I'm now on lesson 44 of Assimil Roumain.
I continue to work with Anki in Romanian, German and Esperanto. Tonight will be Japanese: I will have a two-hour session with my tutor. Edited by Arekkusu on 30 January 2013 at 7:55pm 1 person has 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 26 of 137 31 January 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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Tonight, I shall begin the active phase of Assimil Roumain -- I've used Assimil before, but I must say I never reached (or did) the active phase!!! I zoomed through the first 49 lessons in 7 days, so it'll be interesting to see how much of it stuck. However, the last few lessons were mostly comprehensible on first reading, so I don't think I'm doing to badly. Updates here soon ;)
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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 27 of 137 31 January 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
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Haha, I can't imagine how I would have fared if I had tried to do Assimil French 1 - 49 in a week! But you're way more experienced at this and speak a Romance language natively. Good luck with it and have fun. :-)
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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 28 of 137 31 January 2013 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
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I just finished my Greek book!
Book 1: "B.A.f.H. - Das Neueste vom Bastard Assistant" by Florian Schiel Book 2: "Το ταξίδι στη χώρα που δε βλέπουν τα μάτια..." by Αντώνης Καλογήρου This book reminded me of "Sophie's World" in that its story is mostly packaging for philosophical explorations - not a beginner's course in the history of philosophy, but thoughts on how to find your true self, make your dreams come true and lead a happy life. I might write a review of it as Greek practise eventually. I can already feel that reading this book has improved my Greek by leaps and bounds. I now have a Greek voice in my head and I can often see how to use words naturally, remembering expressions and sentences I encountered in the book. Next I will probably read something in a language I'm more familiar with in order to catch up. And do the Portuguese 6 Week Challenge of course. I'm now up to 57 hours of study this month. If I keep this up, I will fall short of my goal of 700 hours this year. However, I did no study in the first week of the month and barely any study in the second week, so I think it will be fine if I can keep up my current pace. 3 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 29 of 137 01 February 2013 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
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Ok, the active wave has begun! It's fun :)
So I finished lesson 52, which means I also translated dialogues 1 to 3 into Romanian. It's not perfect, but we're doing good. In lesson 2, I had 3 words wrong out of 48, and in lesson 3, 10 out of 73. But it's mostly details like 'mult' instead of 'mulți' (plural form) and using 'parenți' (parents) twice instead of 'rude' (relatives, but also parents in French, so I just read too fast). Now obviously, the active wave is more work than the passive wave. Still, I might be able to finish in another two weeks or so, if time allows. Oh, I've only listened to dialogues up to 25, so I'll need to make time for that too... 2 persons have 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 30 of 137 01 February 2013 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
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Way to go, Arekkusu! Please report more about how that goes.
I started on Portuguese today. Starting level in Portuguese: I understand ca. 80% of the words in a random chapter of "O Alquimista" through Romance language cognates. Some sentences I understand perfectly, in others I only recognize two or three words. I do not understand the conjugation, nor some recurring words that are probably prepositions or adverbs. Also, I cannot fake speaking Portuguese the way I can fake speaking Spanish. First impressions: The recordings in the Portuguese version of Duolingo seem to be much worse than in their Italian or Spanish version. Then again, Portuguese is still in Beta mode. I hope they will work on that soon. To counter this, I listened to a bit of an audiobook of Aldous Huxley's "Brave new world" in Portuguese in order to get a basic sense of what Portuguese should sound like. Edited by Sprachprofi on 01 February 2013 at 3:39pm 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 31 of 137 01 February 2013 at 3:49pm | IP Logged |
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Romanian: Assimil lessons 54 / 3 (translation score: 44/56; couldn't remember a few adverbs; there is a mistake in the dialogue, line 6: Romanian says sigurǎ (f) while the French says sûr (m), yet in the exercices (3), sigurǎ is indeed matched with sûre [sigur is also used as a masculine form in lesson 1, line 2, which seems to confirm the error]).
German: still reading Aufzeichnungen, p. 150. Esperanto: very little, listened to some songs. Did a bit of self-talk in all 3 languages. Nice to see that you are starting Portuguese, Sprachprofi! Do you have a specific goal? 1 person has 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 32 of 137 03 February 2013 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
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Today was not a particularly productive day language-wise as I had to deal with ...
well, life. I did manage to put up a HUGE white board in what is seemingly becoming my language room, which I'm looking foward to enjoying. Still, let's see what I did get done: Assimil Roumain: -went over some of the verbs introduced in earlier lessons and took notes; -listened to dialogues 25 to 35; -no new lesson today. German: -translated my self-talk exercise into German (lang-8) for Sprachprofi's website; -practiced some simultaneous interpretation into German (but also into Esperanto) using this video by Robert Bigler and David Manseray. This turned out to be a really interesting way to find out, in a really short and intense way, what words I'm missing and where I'm weaker. In German, at this point, there is no doubt that it's vocabulary, and this is a really motivating way to plough through whatever's missing. Edited by Arekkusu on 03 February 2013 at 4:05am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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