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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 49 of 137 14 February 2013 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil Romanian update (copied from the Assimil group thread):
I'm at lessons 75 passive / 24 active. During lesson 23, I made 23 mistakes. First, I thought that was a lot -- even though I know some are due to the fact that various translations are possible --, but then I realized that I actually got 133 words right out of 156, which is over 85%! So I'm ok. ___________ I've also been reading Micul Print (Le petit prince), which I'm rather enjoying to be honest. It's not too complicated. I made a Romanian-French side-by-side version. Ironically, I used an English version of the book last night to interpret into Japanese with my tutor and in places, I think she found the English version harder than I, the Romanian version! To be fair, there were really weird sentences in there, including things I'd never heard before, such as "Now I stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment." If I've seen this before, I can't remember... Now, I wish I could find a Romanian tutor to work on this book with me; they could correct my pronunciation and then ask questions about the text... I think this would really help activate a lot of what I've come across in Assimil. In particular, there are so many direct and indirect pronouns (or forms thereof)...! I also found this great recording of Micul print, except that I can't find the version that matches the text being read! There is a link under the video, but it's not longer active. If you should happen to have it... German: I am still reading Illuminati. Edited by Arekkusu on 14 February 2013 at 10:06pm 2 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 50 of 137 14 February 2013 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||
That is kind of a rare one, yes. I've definitely run into it, but I can't say I remember how long it's been since I last encountered it. I don't think I've ever seen it outside of literary works, much less heard someone use it in a conversation. 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 51 of 137 15 February 2013 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil Lessons 78 / 26.
I'm still a bit ambivalent about Assimil -- I dislike that it's exposing me to a lot of things I will never need rather than allow me to concentrate on the things I want to say, but I also recognize it's not such a bad thing. I mentioned the recording of the Little Prince in my previous post and out of curiosity, I checked the Wikipedia page for the voice actor, Florian Pittiș. [Kind of reminds me of Gerry Boulet, but that's another issue...] Surprizingly, I actually understand the vast majority of it, and sometimes all of it. In that respect, I'm forced to admit that Assimil has been exposing me to all the right things (although I still maintain it's done very little for my production thus far...). Here is also his version of Mr. Tambourine Man in Romanian. 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 52 of 137 17 February 2013 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Had two meetings with my new online Romanian tutor. He first corrected on of my texts,
then I went on to read Micul print, and he asked me questions about the text. Lots of work ahead until fluency, that's for sure, but to be able to understand questions and provide answers is still gratifying. It's a type of exercise I would certainly recommend. I also found Learn Romanian Magazine and read a page out of it. Only did one Assimil lesson. Still reading Illuminati in German. Went out with some Japanese friends yesterday; good practice. 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 53 of 137 17 February 2013 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Where did you find your tutor, Arekkusu? As you might (not) know, I am studying Romanian
as well and might want to use this service in the future. 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 54 of 137 17 February 2013 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
I used italki.com. Since you're here, so to speak, what are you using as a bilingual dictionary? 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 55 of 137 17 February 2013 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, italki, in that case, I know where to look.
I have not bought one yet, it's on my to-do list, but I do know a bookshop in the Hague that sells a Romanian-Dutch one and vice versa. But it's 100 euros or so in total, so I'm not going to spend all my money at once. For the moment I just use the internets as a dictionary, and I'm using Assimil (which I like by the way, only it's not much in the way of a dictionary). I'm also relying on any memories I can scrap together from when I used to hear Romanian on a semi-regular basis. Edited by tarvos on 17 February 2013 at 10:47pm 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 56 of 137 19 February 2013 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I visited Britain from Thursday to Monday and I barely did any language study while there
- only 15 minutes of French reading and 20 minutes of Duolingo (Portuguese). I did read 100+ pages of my French book on Monday while traveling home and then some more pages today, and I've also started on Duolingo again, so I'm not afraid that the hiatus will become permanent. In my spreadsheet, I'm still 10 hours ahead of where I have to be in order to reach this year's total hour goal. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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