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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6307 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 25 of 85 20 October 2007 at 5:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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How much of a help has German been in reading novels? Sounds pretty impressive to have read a full novel after only a few months.
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| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6312 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 26 of 85 20 October 2007 at 6:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Without the German version I wouldn't had been able to read the whole book in Danish. I always read a chapter first in German and then in Danish. Then it is really not difficult for me. But I choose the books carefully, classic stuff is mostly not as easy, the book should contain lots of direct speech and an interesting plot. I was lucky with Dan Turèll, exactly what I needed.
But nevertheless I needed of course a basic understanding of the target language itself. How sentences are build, the usual common words, tenses in general. I also must know, how the language sounds. While reading I often "hear" the text - oddly, because the voices are the ones from my other language courses. Many, many greetings to wonderful New Zealand, Fränzi (btw your username was the name of my grandmother and is the shortcut of my real second name :-). In 2004 I visited your country for 5 weeks and it was overwhelming... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 85 20 October 2007 at 6:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Dan Turell was a very popular and wellknown person in the nightlife/cultural life of Copenhagen. He was affectionately known as "Onkel Danny", and every knew who he was ('the guy with the black finger nails', - and he always wore black clothes). It was a good choice for your first modern Danish author.
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6307 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 28 of 85 20 October 2007 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
Too bad I'm a guy then :( I took the name from a cartoon in some comic strips in a German textbook back in highschool. Hasn't caused me too much strife so far, heh.
I imagine Germany will be the same when/if I finally make it there same day! :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6312 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 29 of 85 28 October 2007 at 5:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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Week 13 – uge tretten
This week I only did one lesson of Assimil and Rosetta Stone, but lots of bilingual reading. I also worked through Pimsleurs ten lessons Danish and it was rather easy at this point of my Danish studies, not a bit challenging. But I had a striking experience on Monday. I commute every week between Berlin and Hamburg by train. While I took place I heard on the left side a mother with three little children talking to them in English and German – sometimes really mixed, question in German, answer in English. I just wanted to put on my earplugs for listening Danish, when I suddenly heard Danish spoken. I was indeed confused, hearing Danish before I started the player and I must have looked a little dumb :-) Then I realized, that the two people in the seats in front of me where talking in Danish. So I thought, no lesson on the player today, take this opportunity and listen to real Danish. But they didn't speak much and it was also not good to hear and additonally I had a bad feeling about eavesdropping. Nevertheless I got the chance listening to a short conversation. And this was one of the finest language experiences I ever had, because I realized, that I am definitely on the right track. And why? Learning a language from language courses or at classes is one point and confronted with real spoken language could be sometimes a very different point. But this time it was not different! Although I didn't understand everything what was being said by this Danes, I recognized the similarities to my "model interview", my language experiment inspired by this forum, it was all so genuine. It's hard to describe this in English, but I somehow got a huge confirmation of my language learning style. Now back to the train from Berlin to Hamburg. The travel was soon to end and I took my luggage and went to the door. While waiting for the arrival a man next to me made a call on his cell phone. Normally I can not stand such behaviour, unless it is in a foreign language :-) He spoke very clear and loud and I tried to determine, which language he was speaking. After a few minutes I thought it could be Icelandic (I once visited this wonderful island). And yes, it was indeed Icelandic – I just asked him. When I got to the hotel in the evening after work, the car across the entrance had Danish number plates and the people where just checking in before me. So that completed my last Monday… 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6312 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 30 of 85 05 November 2007 at 11:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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Week 14 - uge fjorten
Only one more Assimil-lesson and with Rosetta Stone I'm now at Unit 4 Lesson 5. I did also one lesson from "Vi snakkes ved". And I still read Dan Turell with great pleasure! It's sometimes a very comforting feeling to recognize so many words and sentences from the so far studied lessons. Last Saturday I went to a so called "flaghouse" in Berlin, a litte business offering flags from all over the world. I bought a small Danish flag for my desk, a tiny reward for my Danish progress :-) Slowly but steady seems to be my way ... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6312 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 31 of 85 19 November 2007 at 10:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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Week 15 and 16 - uge femten og seksten
Although I've done my usual Danish lessons, I was in no mood to write for my language learning log :-) In reading I made some progress - from reading "chapterwise" German and Danish to reading half the book in German and then Danish. The next book I'll read first completely in native tongue and afterwards in the target language. I even tried to read chapters first in Danish, and the result surprised me, because I did more understand than not. Today I've got a Power Point Presentation where the first and the last slide were written in Danish: "Det var en fed fest, men kan man overhovedet huske noget fra festen? - Taenk over det, inden du fester naeste gang. (sorry, I had problems with typing ae as one letter) - and every single word was clear to me .. but I must admit, it was really not difficult. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 85 19 November 2007 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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