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| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 65 of 145 08 January 2014 at 1:46am | IP Logged | ||
Really it's more like I start listening to a news story or something, and when I start understanding I stop trying so hard to focus in the sounds. Or it will be something like they will say a date and I'm thinking what day of the week that is. Or I'll hear the words "not" and "going" and think wait they are not going... oh.. NOT going. (all in Cebuano of course) Edit: I am very glad that I know a little Tagalog so that when someone comes on the Cebuano newscast speaking it I'm not twisting my brain around trying to figure out the "cebuano" words. Edited by ElComadreja on 08 January 2014 at 7:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 66 of 145 09 January 2014 at 2:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, Yesterday I didn't get to listen to the whole newscast, but I felt that I was doing
well. I was breaking up the sounds of some of the speakers around me, some of which are normally incomprehensible to me. Understanding SOMETHING out of that is a big motivational boost. Today I got to sit through a whole news cast & I felt from start to finish that it was not as good. I found myself instead struggling to break up the sounds. At one point I looked away from the video and then it got easier, but then I lost it again :-/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 67 of 145 10 January 2014 at 5:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Today, maybe I got the first taste of listening bliss. Today I was listening to the 30
minute broadcast and I could parse the sounds out again. About 2/3 of the way through something happened. It suddenly got easier for me to do this. It was like I could take each word as it came to me, and if I didn't understand it, I could ignore it and move on, and get the basic idea anyway. The main trouble was when it switched to a different speaker, it took a few words for me to "tune into" them. I had an appointment about 5 minutes after this happened, during that they used a word that I heard correctly, would understand if it was written down, but I couldn't think of what it was. When they told me I was like "oh, yeah". I came back later to finish the show, and it was not quite the same. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 68 of 145 15 January 2014 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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The news is getting much easier now, and I'm able to hit that "sweet spot" more often.
I've noticed though that the the time of day makes a big difference. Early morning I usually will be completely lost, coffee or no coffee. Still last Saturday night I was sitting next to 4 guys talking to each other, and I got pretty much zero :( Edit: I'll add this since it's still the same day, after being in a native home. I'm definitively at the "understand if said twice" place. I'm also hearing much of what is said without too much effort, but without outside context, it's still hard to pick up what people are talking about. It's not brain burning anymore. Still someone gave me the equivalent of "Would you please pray for us." at a time that I didn't expect it to happen, and I heard it just fine. The word "lasa" threw me off. Even after I had a translation. I have no goldlist explanation for that. Edited by ElComadreja on 15 January 2014 at 5:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 69 of 145 17 January 2014 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well that was odd, when I said something to someone today, they said I "sound like a
Japanese" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 70 of 145 18 January 2014 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I tried something new today. Realizing that I need outside context to understand
Cebuano, I listened to some old news broadcasts without looking at the video. My understanding went to almost zero. I wonder if I should just keep doing this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 71 of 145 18 January 2014 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you already know most of the words but can't follow the broadcast yet, then it's a
matter of time. Keep listening till your ears get used to the new environment and you'll start recognizing the words you already know as well as picking up others from context. Even if someone knew a language fluently in its written form, with accurate pronunciation and such, it would take a few...weeks, maybe? till they got used to the sounds, rythm etc.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7239 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 72 of 145 18 January 2014 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks. Always good to know that others are still looking at this log. If I knew how
long this would take it wouldn't be so bad. I have heard that for a first foreign language it's like you have a "broken" ear, and when you do it once, it's easier for the next language. I don't know if this is true or not. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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