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| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 41 of 128 20 December 2009 at 7:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Hobbema
There was an unnecesary blank space in the address, I corrected it in the original post. Thank you for pointing it out. Creating written materials is really time-consuming, but it works well for me. As the Chinese script is alien for me, I need to come across the same word many times in several settings to remember it well. Moreover, if you are a kinesthetic to a certain extent, the mechanic memory helps you to learn when you write smth down. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 42 of 128 20 December 2009 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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A little passage in Spanish, just about life. Ssory, no stresses:
La semana pasada hizo mucho frio en Moscu. La temperatura cai hasta -25 grados. No queria salir de casa con mis hijos. Teniamos que vestirnos mucha-mucha ropa y teniamos aspecto de col. Muy incomodo. La semana que viene va a nevar mucho pero la temperatura ascende. Hacia dos semanas me robaron mi bolsa con mi pasaporte y ayer llego el aviso del correo qie mi pasaporte fue encontrado. Estaba muy sorprendida. No se que hacer porque ya presento documentos para que me hagan el otro. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 43 of 128 24 December 2009 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Continue with goals for 2010.
Spanish and German 1. Harry Potter y la Orden del Fenix and Harry Potter y la Camara secreta - I have these audiobooks both in Spanish and in German. I plan to listen to them chapter by chapter first in Spanish then in German (as my German is much weaker than my Spanish). I also want to read a couple of other books of this series in Spanish. 2. I also have several audiobooks in Spanish and in German that I intend to listen to. The list will be added later on. 3. I plan to watch one movie in Spanish a week and write down my thoughts about it (in Spanish). 4. Listen to ssl4you podcast. 5. Study the book "Practicas de lengua espanola - niveles medio y superior" (it's about grammar). 6. Listen to "Wieso nicht?" podcasts from Deutsche Welle and study the pdf files that accompany them. Edited by dragonfly on 03 January 2010 at 9:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 44 of 128 03 January 2010 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Happy New Year!
So, let's see if I've completed the goals set for 2009. Mandarin: though I made a long break in my studies, I managed to fininsh the first volume of the textbook and begin the second one. I also covered Pimsleur I and Michel Thomas, and began studying the book of fairy tales. Also worked at Chinesepod podcasts. So I can say Mandarinwise the year (esp. the latest four months) was rather productive. Spanish: only listening. Never came to studying the book for reading. German: complete failure. And I don't even want to improve the situation. "Не лежит душа" as the Russians say. But I believe its turn will come sooner or later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 45 of 128 03 January 2010 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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What I already managed to do this year:
Mandarin: - finihed Unit I of the textbook; - finished the first tale (it will have to be revised); - listened to Chinesepod Elementary podcasts; - Anki 218 entries. Spanish: - watched 3 movies in Spanish already (ahead of the schedule!): Avatar, Luna Nueva, Una Novia Para Dos (my opinion a bit later); - read 132 pages of "Crepusculo" (total 332, Spanish). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 46 of 128 06 January 2010 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, about the films I've seen.
Avatar: un cuento fantastico de un hombre terrenal en el cuerpo de una criatura de la planeta alejana, traicion y amor. Tienes que ver esta pelicula en 3D como efectos especiales son muy bonitos. Pero en lo que se refiere a sujeto, me parece poco original. Luna Nueva: la continuacion de la historia del amor de un vampiro y una chica humana. Triangulo amoroso en que tambien participe un hombre lobo. Un cuento bello para chicas romanticas. Este serie me gusto menos que la primera (Twilight), no era tan viva y bonita. Y el heroe principal (vampiro) tiene aspecto horrible (aunque se supone que es hermosisimo). Una Novia Para Dos: una comedia que trata de un hombre joven que tiene el hobby de asustar a mujeres con su conducta insoportable para que piensen que sus novios son los mejores. Se enamora de una de sus victimas igualmente como su amigo mejor. Divertido y un poco vulgar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hobbema Senior Member United States Joined 5748 days ago 541 posts - 575 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, French, Dutch | Message 47 of 128 07 January 2010 at 5:38am | IP Logged | ||
Hi dragonfly, I myself kind of like these types of posts. I don't study Spanish, but I took it in high school and can make out what you wrote. I think writing about ordinary life kind of stuff in your target language is cool. But this is your log so write what you want...I thought I would mention we ourselves have frigid temperatures here too! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6486 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 48 of 128 13 January 2010 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, Hobbema. Right, this year the winter is very cold.
Time to update. What I did about... Mandarin: - revised Tale 1 from my reader (now I know it almost by heart) and started working at tale 2; - listened to ChinesePod Elementary podcasts a lot, thoroughly studied "The Traffic Jam", "Do you have vegetables?", "Your turn to pay!", "Finding an apartment", "Discussing eating" (scriptorium, characters); - Anki 282 entries. Spanish: - finished reading "Crepusculo" (Twilight)- 362 pages; - watched "Personas sustituas" and "Yo, Robot" Tengo que decir, que a mi me gusta mucho ficcion cientifica y me gustaban ambas peliculas, aunque la primera mas. Tratan del mundo futuro inunando por robots. En "Personas sustituas" humanos no salgan de sus casas, todo el tiempo estan pegados a sus sillas espezialisadas manegando de esta manera un robot que vive la vida real. Claro que esta situacion al fin concluye. En la segunda pelicula robots son usados como la ayuda en la vida diario, pero (como sucede demasiado a menudo) el robot central decide que la humanidad es peligrosa por si misma y para protegerla el tiene que controlarla. Es interesante, que la parte del criador de los robots es representada por el mismo actor. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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