Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 761 of 812 21 June 2015 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
So many plans, ideas and opportunities, but at the end of the day it's a few episodes of House of Cards with German subs, a paragraph of a blog post in German, a Formula One race with English comments and this example of me writing down lyrics and
working with them:
That only sounds like a lot. But basically it's super-laziness, which is usual for me.
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 762 of 812 23 June 2015 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
I guess my condition is called a lazy-ass syndrome. I would really like to do something about it, but even my lazy methods of studying seem to be working.
Well, I find that I don't have the guts even to open Er ist wieder da, because it is really too hard for me now, I also still have no idea how to write that blog post I started on Sunday.
So all I do it watch House of Cards, in which some moments I can't get in both English and German, which speaks for the usefulness of such a task, listen to the music and practice my handwriting like this:
I actually like my handwriting (or I guess any other written with a black pen on a white paper) in a big scope, I already made three wallpapers in the last three days and I guess you already realised that while I am obsessed over something I can be really
productive in this something.
This doesn't really have to do much with languages, right?..
Edited by Via Diva on 23 June 2015 at 4:09am
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 763 of 812 24 June 2015 at 10:14pm | IP Logged |
On a crazy whim I realised I need to install German on my poor Chinese phone. Today, nevermind the exam on Friday. Here's how it went - auf Deutsch!
Please give me some feedback here. It's 2:11 here after all, and I started thinking about what to write around 23:25. Does the time affect my writing abilities much? :)
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4216 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 764 of 812 24 June 2015 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
The only thing I can say with certainty is that you
should have used "bestehen" instead of its perfect
form.
Better wait for a native speaker's feedback though.
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 765 of 812 24 June 2015 at 10:38pm | IP Logged |
Maybe she wanted to write something like "ich werde bestanden haben", but in a
conditional or temporal subordinate clause.
Falls/sobald/wenn ich meine Prüfung (werde bestanden haben)/(bestanden haben werde),
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One of these two constructions at the end might be an Austrianism, don't ask me which
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der Lehrer (ich kann ihn nicht ein Professor nennen, obwohl er nicht so jung
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Dozent: jemand, der an der Uni lehrt, aber nicht die Stelle eines Professors innehat
(werden beide im Englischen als "professor" bezeichnet soweit mir bekannt, im Deutschen
aber nicht).
Lehrer unterrichtet an der Schule. Es gibt aber auch den "Hochschullehrer" als Synonym
zum Dozenten, aber wird denk ich kaum verwendet.
Edited by daegga on 24 June 2015 at 10:47pm
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 766 of 812 25 June 2015 at 4:06am | IP Logged |
I am just bad at Konjunktiv and all that jazz. But this construction does look like something I could've used there. Maybe.
I just mixed up infinitive and past participle. I do have a history with this kind of abusive behaviour towards German verbs (e.g. Kannst du das verstanden?).
We have "преподаватель" which applies to everyone who teaches at universities. The reason why I avoid using words like Professor or Dozent is because these are positions on a career ladder in Russia. Well, it's not Professor in RUssia, it's доктор *insert a
branch of science* наук. Some of our lecturers are docents all right, some are candidates of science (a step before getting a doctorate here), and some are indeed what you'd call professors.
I guess I can always get away with Lektor/ Lektorin...
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 767 of 812 25 June 2015 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
Oh ok...
... gotta move my English back to "Studies", eh?
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rtickner Diglot Groupie AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3519 days ago 61 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB2 Studies: French, Spanish
| Message 768 of 812 25 June 2015 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
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Do not despair, I find that statement to be deliberately provocative (and many other native English speakers would agree). Your English is fine. Take your previous post for example:
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The lack of the definite article here does not make you appear uneducated, in fact it wasn't until you pointed out a potential issue with usage in your post above that I even realised they were missing.
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