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Radioclare’s TAC log 2014 (*jäŋe/*ledús) | ||
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 41 of 522 23 January 2014 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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There was a lot of watering awaiting me on Memrise this morning after all the planting I
did last night. Before breakfast I wrote out the answers to the exercises in lesson 13 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian'. I found some of these quite difficult as they dealt with dates; both giving the date on which something is happening and saying the year in which someone was born. I am particularly bad at years in any language - even in Esperanto where it couldn't really be much easier - so this may be a chapter that I need to revisit again in future. The client is taking me and my colleagues for a night out in Glasgow tonight, so expect that no further studying will be done! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 42 of 522 24 January 2014 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last night degenerated from a meal and drinks into clubbing and sambuca, with the result
that we didn't get in until 3am and had to be at work for 8. I therefore didn't manage to do any more lessons from 'Teach Yourself Croatian' before breakfast. I may not have managed breakfast itself :'( All I have achieved today is to keep on top of my Memrise plants. I had 248 awaiting watering this morning, which I've managed to get through in stages throughout the day. On the plane on the way home from Scotland this evening, I tried to revise some chapters from 'Beginner's Croatian' but fell asleep after about 15 minutes. Hoping that tomorrow will be a more productive day! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 43 of 522 25 January 2014 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Despite sleeping for 10 hours last night, I still felt pretty wiped out today!
This morning I caught up with more Memrise watering; over 200 plants, mainly refreshing vocabulary I learnt in the Croaticum course a few weeks ago. This afternoon I watched an episode of 'Poštar Pat' (or Poštar Pet!) on Youtube. It was called 'Zeleni Zec' and the storyline revolved around Pat volunteering to look after a baby while its family go to the cinema with Pat's son, Julian. The baby is very attached to its green rabbit toy, which it proceeds to lose multiple times during Pat's post-round, causing chaos as Pat has to hunt for it desperately to stop the baby crying. When I first started watching it I was struggling to catch some of the sentences, but as the story progressed I got more into it so I think it was probably just because I haven't listened to much (any?) Croatian audio this week. Once I got to the end, I watched it through again and followed it a lot better second time around :) The rest of the afternoon was largely taken up with making holiday plans. I wanted to go to Montenegro in September but options for flying to Podgorica are quite limited and the prices of flights to Dubrovnik are far too expensive. I did, however, find amazingly cheap flights to Skopje, so I spent quite a while researching how difficult it would be to get to Montenegro from Macedonia (very!!). Getting to Serbia seems more straightforward though, so now I am contemplating a few days in Macedonia (which looks beautiful) and the rest of my holiday in Serbia for some language practice. This evening I found a website where you can test your Croatian level. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but I scored 46/60 which is estimated level B2. That's better than I expected; I would have guessed that I am at B1. Edited by Radioclare on 25 January 2014 at 10:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 44 of 522 26 January 2014 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Radioclare, this log is bringing me intense wanderlust for Croatian! Will have to hold on
to Russian firmly. Nice to know you're already at a B1 level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 45 of 522 26 January 2014 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, Expugnator :) I have to confess that I am experiencing extreme wanderlust for
Czech at the moment as I have a week off work in July which is potentially going to be Central European holiday. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 46 of 522 26 January 2014 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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This morning I had a nice blast of Hladno Pivo to cheer me up as I walked to church in
the pouring rain. I treated myself to the single 'Na ovim prostorima', so listened to that quite a few times. This afternoon I read and wrote out all the exercises from the first two chapters of 'Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian - A Textbook'. These were pretty easy as I've learned all the vocab on Memrise now, but it was good to practise doing the drills. I also completed the homework for my Croatian class, which was emailed to me although I missed last week's lesson and will miss this week's too. We had to write a shopping list, which wasn't too difficult for me but may be a bit difficult for everybody else if they don't know about the genitive yet. This evening I read another chapter from 'The Balkans' by Mark Mazower. I'm flying to Scotland again tomorrow morning, so hoping to read more on the plane. I have to add that this week a colleague was asking me questions about Esperanto, and wanted to know what the word for "chair" would be as an example of how the language sounds. I had a moment of absolute blind panic as the only word for "chair" entering my mind was the Croatian "stolica". Esperanto is my most fluent foreign language and I can speak/understand it as rapidly as English, but I actually had to stall her and tell her the word for "table" (tablo) instead while I dredged the word for "chair" (seĝo)out of the furthest recesses of my mind. It's never good to stumble over Esperanto words while trying to demonstrate to a sceptic that it is a "real" language, but I was able to draw consolation from the fact that the amount of Croatian practice I have been doing must be paying off if that is currently the uppermost foreign language in my mind! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 47 of 522 27 January 2014 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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It is surprising to have interference from Esperanto into Croatian, Radioclare. After
all, they both have plenty of words ending in vowels, and consonants that change when adding something over them =D A friend from Serbia would go mad everytime I wrote Serbian using Esperanto's unofficial digraphs due to lack of proper characters, for example, I'd write 'nisxta ne znam' 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 48 of 522 28 January 2014 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||
I do this all the time :D If I want to type out answers to exercises it's so much quicker than inserting the proper accented characters. But I can imagine that it looks quite strange to other people! **** Today I had to get up at 4am to fly back to Scotland. On the plane I read some more of 'The Balkans'; I'm about halfway through now. I'm enjoying it but don't think it would be a great book to choose if it was your first attempt at reading up on Balkan history, as quite a bit of background knowledge seems to be assumed. Apart from keeping up with Memrise, all I have done today is watch a short video on Deutsche Welle hrvatski about the popularity of public showers in Paris. Hoping to be less tired tomorrow and do some more exercises from TYC. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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