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| angeltreats Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6295 days ago 48 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Swedish | Message 25 of 74 28 December 2007 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish: Hang out with Spanish-speaking friends more. Try to go to Spain at least once. Read more books in Spanish than in English this year.
Portuguese: Actually do some studying outside of my one class a week. Try and get to the point where I can read (fairly straightforward) books and newspaper articles. Listen to Portuguese from Portugual and get used to the accent so I can actually understand it a bit better, because at the moment I only ever hear Brazilian. French/Italian: I don't have time to actually properly study either of these due to working full time and doing a degree part time, but I'd like to brush up a bit on what I have previously learned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zhuangzi Nonaglot Language Program Publisher Senior Member Canada lingq.com Joined 7029 days ago 646 posts - 688 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Japanese, Swedish, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 26 of 74 28 December 2007 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I am mighty impressed with the multilingual goals of everyone here.
First of all I wonder if I am not the oldest language learner here at 62. Second I find that I am only able to concentrate on one language at a time. I can maintain or refresh others by reading books or listening to audio books, but to tackle the long and steep slope of learning from scratch to fluency I need to focus on one. 2008 will still be heavy to Russian. I want to bring my unknown word ratio to less than 10% for most content (literature and history) that I import into LingQ. I also want to focus on some grammar constructions(largely ignored so far) through tagging relevant phrases from the texts that I am reading. Korean was left as a work in progress and if we get our Asian languages up on LingQ it will not be hard to go back and bring it up to my Russian level. Korean is easier for me than Russian since I now Japanese and Chinese. I have ordered audio books from Brazil and will devote a month to Portuguese in order to get comfortable in the language. The vocabulary is mostly there from Spanish.I even ordered an audio book of Portuguese grammar. I am curious to see i I can listen to it as learning content. I am hoping to find good combined audio/e-text content for Chinese, Korean and most languages, really. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| OrlMoth Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6365 days ago 77 posts - 83 votes 2 sounds | Message 27 of 74 28 December 2007 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Mine are:
To reach basic level in Cantonese To get started on either Italian or French. Finally, to travel somewhere outside the country where I can practise my languages with native speakers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doing_kermit Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6193 days ago 68 posts - 68 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Catalan, French | Message 28 of 74 28 December 2007 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
1-your way older than me(15), and I think you are the oldest lol 2-in my experience with portuguese, the portuguese from brazil was alot different than that of portugal, just to warn you 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zhuangzi Nonaglot Language Program Publisher Senior Member Canada lingq.com Joined 7029 days ago 646 posts - 688 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese, Swedish, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 29 of 74 28 December 2007 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
I have listened to both and read in both and find the differences not so overwhelming. Brazilian is a little easier to understand. I intend to listen to and become familiar with both. I will probably vary my accent depending on whom I am speaking to. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6245 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 30 of 74 28 December 2007 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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my goal is to practice french more as i was really lazy this year (i actually only found all these methods maybe a month ago or so, when i joined).
i was really passive this year, only listening to french the whole time, while phonetically i have the language in my pocket. completely useless, i should've listened to korean more, which is a tad harder. korean tho, is my ultimate goal, i want to at least achieve some basic comprehension and i want to be able to read hangul without any 'thinking'. i was lazy on hangul too, going with it veeerrrryyy slowly. but i'm optimistic, 2008 will be a good one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| philolingua Diglot Newbie United States philoarchaeologist.c Joined 6177 days ago 15 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian | Message 31 of 74 28 December 2007 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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French
I want to maintain my french despite that I probably won't be actively working on it. Italian I would like to achieve intermediate fluency in Italian before June, as I am going to Italy then I would like to be able to communicate. German After my Italy trip I would like to begin working on German. I think I need to break out of the romance languages for a while. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6440 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 32 of 74 28 December 2007 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Leserables claims to be 69. Iversen is 55, give or take a few years. Most people haven't mentioned their ages. Hence, while you may be among the older of the language learners here, I doubt you're the absolute oldest, though I could be wrong. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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