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| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5698 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 9 of 14 13 December 2010 at 3:07am | IP Logged |
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It's nice to see someone else focusing on Italian. It was starting to get a little
lonely. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| diabolo menthe Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5966 days ago 68 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Swedish, Japanese | Message 10 of 14 14 December 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you very much for your input, hrhenry. I really like the look of that site, though I worry my level is not
quite high enough yet for some of the courses offered that I find very interesting. And thank you as well, Oasis, I was struggling finding many threads on dear old Italian around here :) ----------- My most recent lessons in Italian have involved the elusive R. My boyfriend keeps walking in on me and saying "are you okay?", to which I have to explain the difficulty of the Italian R and how it will take a lot of blowing wet raspberries before I am finally going to get it. I did it once, a few months ago. A simple buon giorno, and I did it by accident! I was thrilled, but have not been able to recapture it since in the same way. Boyfriend often suggest just replacing the Italian R with the French one. My response is "don't be silly". He should understand how important this is to me, as he downright refuses to learn French for the sole reason that he can't do the R and doesn't want to sound a fool. The quest continues. Outside of my own pronunciation practice, I have started a language exchange with a lovely person in Italy who is helping me greatly. Nice to finally meet someone whose opening line isn't "you're pretty, shall we learn together?" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| diabolo menthe Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5966 days ago 68 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Swedish, Japanese | Message 11 of 14 07 January 2011 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
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Well the year has begun, and my university course has started up again. I still find it just as much fun as before, and
just being back in the Italian department environment has been very encouraging. We are currently reviewing the past participle and have just started on indirect pronouns, so nothing overly difficult yet, but it is nice to review everything with other people present. It is also quite fun to be around students again. At some point next week I will get my midterm exam back and I will know where I stand. Until then, this is just a small check in to remind myself to keep posting and keep working! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5586 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 12 of 14 07 January 2011 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
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Hi Kat,
It seems that your studies are going very well. What would you say your current level of Italian is at the moment? After your 3 year course, I would assume it is pretty high. I noticed in an earlier post you had mentioned assimil. Did you complete the course? If so, what was your overall impression of it. Good luck with your continued studies... EDIT: sorry if some of the above doesn't trlate to you - I see it was mrhenry who had completed the italicon course - mi dispiace. Tom Edited by magictom123 on 07 January 2011 at 10:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| diabolo menthe Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5966 days ago 68 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Swedish, Japanese | Message 13 of 14 08 January 2011 at 2:59pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Tom
I would say that so far, after about a year of on-and-off self-study and half a year of a beginner's class I am to an Intermediate level. I can easily recognise the different tenses and form the main ones, but I still make many fundamental mistakes when it comes to prepositions (this is why I didn't just skip the beginner's class in the first place and go straight to intermediate). Also, my vocabulary is relatively weak as the books I used to teach myself mainly concentrated on grammar. I did take a placement test a month ago that put me in Intermediate 2 (which I imagined to be B2), but I disagree with that result as it was all multiple choice and as a French speaker it was quite easy to guess some of the answers, despite not knowing how to form those sentences on my own. As for Assimil, I have not completed it yet. I took a break from it as soon as I started my class, but I do come back to certain chapters just to get an additional vocabulary/grammar boost that we don't cover in class. But I do find it very useful as it answers a lot of the questions I would want to ask in class but that are a bit too advanced for some of the others in a very clear way. And I find it works you up to being able to understand spoken Italian from the very beginning, i.e. it plays it slowly then quickly but the jump is never so big that you'd struggle. It is definitely worth having. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| xandreax Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5893 days ago 142 posts - 160 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 14 of 14 25 November 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
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Hello!
It would be interesting to see where you´re at with Italian right now. I haven´t been posting in my language log over the past while either but I´m actively studying the language. I remembered you had started Barron's Complete Grammar Review - did you finish it? If so, what did you think about it? I´m going through that book now and I find it reinforces or adds to what I learned in Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar. I also have a Schaum´s Italian Vocabulary book as the grammar books don´t have a wide variety of vocabulary. I also hope Practice Makes Perfect comes out with a Conversation book - I went through the Spanish version a while ago and it was great! I think that after a bit more studying I´ll start having conversations - and yeah I have to search for someone who will do that with me too. I´m trying to do things now though the same way I did with Spanish so that I can eventually get to the same level. Happy studying! Edited by xandreax on 25 November 2011 at 6:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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