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Nikolic993’s： IT，RO，中文 log. (Team César)
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nikolic993
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Senior Member
Yugoslavia
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106 posts - 205 votes

Speaks: Serbian*, English
Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian

Message 1 of 37

25 January 2015 at 4:35pm | IP Logged

Hello everyone and welcome to my language log.

A short introduction:

Serbian:
I grew up in Serbia and it is my native language. Shtokavian "dialect", Ekavian "pronunciation", Sumadijsko-Vojvodjanski "sub-dialect(?)".

English:
I've been learning English since I was 3 years old and I'm currently studying it in college. I learned it thanks to years of massive input and very little output. My accent is American but I can also put on a good British accent, although it doesn't suit me because it sounds too posh.

Italian:
I started learning Italian a year and a half ago because I had to choose either Italian or French as a second foreign language for my college curriculum. Having never studied a language in a formal way I struggled a lot with Italian in the beginning, but everything is finally starting to fall into place.

Romanian:
My mom is Romanian, but I never learned the language when I was a kid, probably because English took over. I can still remember some words and phrases. I've officialy been studying it for 3 weeks now.

Mandarin:
Love how it sounds, I got to Assimil Lesson number 4 and I've also been watching CCTV1 just to get a feel for it.

I might try to write something in my weaker languages above from time to time, so corrections are more than welcome.

Edited by nikolic993 on 28 January 2015 at 2:06pm
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nikolic993
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Speaks: Serbian*, English
Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian

Message 2 of 37

25 January 2015 at 5:10pm | IP Logged

Italian:
Assimil - Italian With Ease PW:50/105 AW: 4/105
Colloquial Italian - Unit 2/17

Romanian:
Assimil - Il Romeno Senza Sforzo PW 4/101 AW: 0/101
Colloquial Romanian - Unit 2/20

Mandarin:
Assimil - Chinese With Ease PW 4/101 AW: 0/101

Notes:
I started watching "I Cesaroni" last night and I like the show so far. I've also been listening to a lot of Romanian rap/hip-hop. My favorite rappers are Raku, Bitza and the entire group "Parazitii".

Edited by nikolic993 on 01 February 2015 at 2:17am
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nikolic993
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Speaks: Serbian*, English
Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian

Message 3 of 37

26 January 2015 at 5:17pm | IP Logged

Italian:
Assimil - Italian With Ease PW:51/105 AW: 4/105
Colloquial Italian - Unit 3/17

Romanian:
Assimil - Il Romeno Senza Sforzo PW 5/101 AW: 0/101
Colloquial Romanian - Unit 3/20

Mandarin:
Assimil - Chinese With Ease PW 5/101 AW: 0/101
ChinesePod - Basics 1/100

Notes:

Multiple "th" sounds in one sentence practice:

"th" recording

1. I thank my three brothers.
2. My birthday is on Thursday April third.
3. These three teeth hurt in my mouth.
4. They went with their mother to the theater.
5. There are thirteen thin women there.
6. She has a loose tooth in her mouth.

An excerpt from "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson, on the fallacy of the distance between stars and planets.

Recording:

Solar System Recording

Quote:

You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale. Most schoolroom charts show the planets coming one after the other at neighborly intervals - the outer giants actually cast shadows over each other in many illustrations - but this is a necessary deceit to get them all on the same piece of paper. Neptune in reality isn't just a little bit beyond Jupiter; it's way beyond Jupiter - five times further from Jupiter than Jupiter is from us; so far out that it receives only 3% as much sunlight as Jupiter.

Such are the distances, in fact, that it isn't possible, in any practical terms, to draw the solar system to scale. Even if you added lots of fold-out pages to your textbook or used a really long sheet of poster paper, you wouldn't come close. On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant. On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. Even if you shrank down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feet away.

Edit: The vocaroo recording sucks because it was recorded on my laptop, but I recorded the MediaFire one on my phone, so the quality is much better.

Edited by nikolic993 on 27 January 2015 at 2:30pm
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nikolic993
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Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian

Message 4 of 37

28 January 2015 at 4:18pm | IP Logged

Italian:
Assimil - Italian With Ease PW:53/105 AW: 6/105
Colloquial Italian - Unit 3/17

Romanian:
Assimil - Il Romeno Senza Sforzo PW 10/101 AW: 0/101
Colloquial Romanian - Unit 3/20

Mandarin:
Assimil - Chinese With Ease PW 7/101 AW: 0/101
ChinesePod - Basics 2/100

Notes:
1. Watched 2 episodes of "I Cesaroni".
2. Read and translated 2 pages of "Il Padrino"
3. Talked with my mom in Romanian for about 10 mins. Just some basic stuff.
4. Listened to Leson #2 on ChinesePod (Where are you from?)
5. Practised writing some basic characters. 你我是好吗很

Edited by nikolic993 on 28 January 2015 at 4:20pm
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tristano
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Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English
Studies: Dutch

Message 5 of 37

29 January 2015 at 8:29am | IP Logged

Ciao @nikolic993,
in bocca al lupo con i tuoi studi!
Una serie tv che a me è piaciuta tantissimo è Boris, parla di uno studio televisivo dove girano una telenovela
chiamata "gli occhi del cuore" mettendo in evidenza la poca professionalità dell'ambiente. Davvero divertente, io mi
rotolavo a terra dalle risate :) Fammi sapere se ti serve qualche consiglio per l'italiano ;)
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nikolic993
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Message 6 of 37

29 January 2015 at 10:11am | IP Logged

Ciao Tristano :)

Crepi il lupo!

Grazie per il suggerimento, forse la guarderò quando finisco guardare "I Cesaroni". Se mi serve aiuto o consiglio, ti farò sapere. Sai che anche in Serbia diciamo "Ciao" e "Ma dai"? Si scrive "Ćao" e "Ma daj". :)

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Thanks for the suggestion, maybe I'll watch it when I finish watching "I Cesaroni". If I need help or advice, I will let you know. Do you know that in Serbia we also say "Ciao" and "Ma dai"? It's written as "Ćao" and "Ma daj". :)
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Sarnek
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Studies: German, Swedish

Message 7 of 37

29 January 2015 at 10:56am | IP Logged

nikolic993 wrote:

Ciao Tristano :)

Crepi il lupo!

Grazie per il suggerimento, forse la guarderò quando finisco guardare "I Cesaroni". Se
mi serve aiuto o consiglio, ti farò sapere. Sai che anche in Serbia diciamo "Ciao" e
"Ma dai"? Si scrive "Ćao" e "Ma daj". :)

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Thanks for the suggestion, maybe I'll watch it when I finish watching "I Cesaroni". If
I need help or advice, I will let you know. Do you know that in Serbia we also say
"Ciao" and "Ma dai"? It's written as "Ćao" and "Ma daj". :)

Ma dai?!

Like "come on now!"?

Anyways, good luck with your studies :)

Edited by Sarnek on 29 January 2015 at 10:56am
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nikolic993
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Message 8 of 37

29 January 2015 at 11:07am | IP Logged

Sarnek wrote:

Ma dai?!

Like "come on now!"?

Anyways, good luck with your studies :)

Sì, è la stessa cosa. Grazie mille. :)

daj= give (Imperative)

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