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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5388 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 27 17 January 2011 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
I was just wondering if it was worth checking out. I've used (to some extent) many of them for the European languages, but I would think that the Japanese (and Chinese and Arabic) would be structured differently. Just because the languages are so different, I guess. I know the Romance and Germanic ones are basically built along the lines of what MT himself did, but the others seem to have mixed reviews. I have no problem following along with the Greek and the Russian. (Although I have to run through the Russian two or three times, it sticks after that.) But I'm having trouble with the Polish sticking at all. I don't know if it's the language, or it's the way it's presented in the MT course. I'll probably check the Japanese one out at some point and hope it sticks better than the Polish. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5116 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 27 17 January 2011 at 3:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Kerrie,
It's great to see that you are able to make such good progress while also being an active mother. I am in awe of your Harry Potter collection. Do you have audiobooks as well? I'm looking for a Mandarin edition and audiobook, but no luck finding the latter as yet. Good luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5388 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 19 of 27 17 January 2011 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Li, I have the set in Simplified Chinese. You can get the Simplified ones on amazon for a reasonable price.
As to the audiobooks, I've found some online, but they are really expensive pretty much everywhere. I don't know if China has a site like eBay, but that might be something worth checking out if you can't find them elsewhere. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5388 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 27 19 February 2011 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm finding life interfering with language study, again. (Big surprise, right?)
I've been working a lot more again, and I'm packing up a four-bedroom house worth of stuff (and selling a lot of it on eBay and Craigslist). I'm anticipating foreclosure on my house within a few months, so I'm trying to prepare as best I can for that, between working 50-60 hours a week. Maybe once we find an apartment and I'm not so bogged down in bills, I'll have more time to devote to active language study. Even though I have not had the time to sit down and actively study much over the past month, I am still slowly working through Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal. More often than not, I don't have sit-down time to work on it, but I often have the audiobook on at work instead of the radio. I've noticed that when I do have time to sit down with the book, or when I read (usually at lunch at work) without the audio, I have no trouble following along with the story. I find myself enjoying the story and not thinking about the fact that it's in Spanish. There's definitely words I don't know, but it's easy enough to understand everything from knowing the story and looking at the context. I actually was listening to the audio in the car the other day and it dawned on me that I was not having trouble understanding any of it, whereas a few months ago, it was a struggle to keep up with the story because of the language. If that makes sense. So I guess even my mostly passive work is paying off a little. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5464 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 21 of 27 19 February 2011 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | ||
Qué tal Kerrie, There's only one thing I'd say about that, which is otherwise pretty good: volver en sí - to come round I'd translate it as 'to come to', as in, to come back to your senses. Apologies if that's what you meant by 'come round'! I'd say 'to come round' as 'venir' or 'venirse'. However that second one might be prickly because of some vulgar connotations in certain regions like Spain. Either way, la mejor de las suertes con tus estudios. If you have any Spanish related questions I'd gladly try my best to answer then. ¡Saludos! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5388 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 22 of 27 19 February 2011 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Gracias, getreallanguage. For some reason, I have trouble remembering the distinctions between the different forms with volver. There's a few others that I get confused on sometimes, too. But I'm trying to make an effort to look up similar groups and takes notes on them like this, so I'm getting a little better with them. =)
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6135 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 23 of 27 01 April 2011 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Kerrie, how is the studying going? I hope your situation has improved and that we see you back soon!
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