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| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5770 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes  Speaks: Danish* | Message 1 of 86 16 February 2009 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to my log.
Here, in the first post, I will try to gather some links to: Free online legal Romanian related learning material and to: threads in this forum I found useful in my learning proces. (Remember to delete the spaces in the URL's.) Romanian radio http://www.romania-actualitati.ro/ Iversens log. Read, learn and be inspired. http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=12983&PN=1&TPN=1 Read this thread if you want some serious and constructive info about pimsleur: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=17704&PN=1 Program where you can read the bible in 40 different languages and have them side by side http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=17789&PN=1 Links to different Romanian free grammar and study books http://soyouwanttolearnalanguage.googlepages.com/languagee-b ooks4 Here, among other, the Peace Corps Romanian (+audio) and Romanian Grammar from SEELRC. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: The entire DLI Romanian course (uploaded by Forum member Fat_tony), including audio, at: http://www.4shared.com/file/129912677/71ed39d8/Romanianpdf.h tml http://www.4shared.com/file/129924002/2880022e/romaudioVol1. html http://www.4shared.com/file/129933100/67fb183c/romaudioVol2. html http://www.4shared.com/file/129953099/41678446/romaudioVol3. html http://www.4shared.com/file/129963644/c95580d4/romaudioVol4a .html http://www.4shared.com/file/129977098/c3c270e7/romaudioVol4b .html http://www.4shared.com/file/129990157/dcedce95/romaudioVol5 html http://www.4shared.com/file/129996749/3a8f1bd/romaudioVol6-7 .html Modern Romanian / Limba română (online version of the textbook) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet /ERICServlet? accno=ED054673 Audio of the first half of “Modern Romanian / Limba română” courtesy Indiana University in .mp3 format http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/romanian_archive.html Cheap pimsleur audiobook download (not free, I know) http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp? productID=BK_SANS_001376&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes Edited by Amoore on 09 November 2009 at 3:00pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5770 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Danish* | Message 2 of 86 17 February 2009 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5770 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Danish* | Message 3 of 86 17 February 2009 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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.UPDATE ON MY LIFE!
Right now I am trying to get my "Bachelor of Education", a 4 year period of study, so I can become a teacher in, among others, Danish. (So if you need some help with Danish, I am willing to.) About me... Volunteered for the army and ended my military service 1. December. Maybe I will study at the university after summer, maybe not. I have not decided yet. And that's it. The story of my life. About me and language... They tried to learn me German, English, Latin and Spanish in school, but i "forgot" to pay attention. My grades in Latin was quite good, but i have no idea why. Anyway. So i speak English but my grammar is not that good. Spanish... No, no hablo español, pero comprendo un poco y tengo un facil hijo, llama Juan y vive en una maleta. Or something like that.. I read Barry Farber's book and did Pimsleur's Spanish 1-10 + learned a few words a week or so before my final examn - and passed. So i really can not speak, understand or write any Spanish, but i learned that language can be fun and easy to learn! So maybe one day in a brighter future i will learn this language. Who knows? (I do O.o ) German?... It's worse than my Spanish. Back on track. I want to learn a new language and it is going to be: Romanian. Why? I know why it seems. So here we go... Learning Romanian 09
These are my reasons, and they do not have to make sense. Lucky me. And Romanian is spoken by more than 28 mio. people. Thats more than Hungarian, Gerek, Serbo-Croation, and the same as Dutch. Challenging, beautiful, helpful and i can practice it with native speakers. So why not.. First-timer I will not bore anyone with more of my nonsense, but i will remind you all about the fact that i am af first-timer-language-learner with no experience or opinions on the subject: "how to learn a language". So all comments and ideas are welcome in this thread, and especially those who improve my language skills. ...and I will, once in a while, update this page with random stuff. Edited by Amoore on 04 November 2009 at 3:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5770 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Danish* | Message 4 of 86 17 February 2009 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Study Calender
Febr. 10 - Febr. 18. The Pimsleur-Age. Pimsleur Romanian 1-10. Colloquial Romanian Chapter 1 and dialog 1 and 2 "Read" some of Harry Potter with bilingual text and a Romanian audiobook Prepared 160 new words on flashcards. Listened to Matthew chapter 1 (The Bible) in Romanian while sleeping Spoke with two of my friends in the little Romanian i know. Practiced known words. Did 80 different words in a row on flashcards, from native to target language. Edited by Amoore on 04 November 2009 at 3:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5770 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Danish* | Message 5 of 86 17 February 2009 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Read this thread if you want some serious and constructive info about pimsleur:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=17704&PN=1 Pimsleur - My very own opinion. I did pimsleur 1-10 in 8 days. The Pimsleur volumes are the best way to kickstart your target language. I recommend learning the alphabet and the pronounciation of the letters first of all. I have tried Pimsleur in Russian, Spanish and now Romanian, and so far it seems to work very well. I already had my first conversation in the little Romanian I learned from Pimsleur. But. The language is soooo formal, so very formal - and there is no warning about this. Pimsleurs dialogues do not reflect contemporary Romanian it seems. So when you open your grammar-book and try to conjugate the verbs they suddenly do not seem to match in person. This can be very confusing if you'r not aware of the fact that Pimsleur is teaching you how to ask the Queen if she would like to have a drink with you, and not your friend. In Pimsleur Romanian 1-7 I learned the same amount as in 8-10. It felt like such a waste of time going through the same and the same and the same, again and again and again in 8-10. I really do believe they rushed through 8-10, only because they had to have 10 units in a volume. Well. Do yourself (and probably everyone else) a favour and buy Pimsleur. Colloquial Romanian coming. Edited by Amoore on 04 November 2009 at 3:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5770 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Danish* | Message 6 of 86 18 February 2009 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Alrighty then.."
Pimsleur 1-10 done, and I have added a few lines about Pimsleur in the thread. My Vocabulary is 85+ words. Not amazing, but I do have other things to do these days than sit and learn new words - sadly. My plan is to read Romanian literature, maybe Harry Potter. I do have bilingual text for five Harry Potter books, plus audiobooks. This way I will be able to say more magic formulars than many Romanians! This is actually my concern about Mrs. Rowlings books - all the extra unnecessary homemade words... I will go through the Colloquial Romanian book (and audio) and read some grammar. I am very excited about the grammar! :) So. So far.. so good... My question is, to all who reads this: What should I prioritize the highest? Grammar - because it excites me? Colloqiual - Conversations with bilingual texts and audio, and some grammar? Harry Potter? It is not a choice between them, but only a matter of where I should invest the most of my time. Thanks. :) André Moore Edited by Amoore on 19 February 2009 at 12:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 7 of 86 19 February 2009 at 1:32am | IP Logged | ||
Mick Edited by mick33 on 19 February 2009 at 1:57am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 8 of 86 19 February 2009 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I would also say grammar, but on some very specific points:
the use of subordinate sentences instead of infinitives the inflected 'a'-thing that is used in possessive constructions the different ways of expressing future (plus conditional/optative expressions) if you didn't live in Denmark I would also have added the postclitic definite articles Unless you know these moot points in Romanian you may be thrown off course or misinterpret the things you see and hear in your textbook, Potter and elsewhere. Apart from that: get an overview over the grammar, but don't try to learn everything from the beginning, - you will remember all the syntactical and idiomatic details better when you are already engaged in reading and listening to genuine materials. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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