|
 |
TAC 2011 - Team Ohana – Le Cinéma Rex | ||
Tags: Dabbling | France | 6 Weeks Challenge (6WC) | Immersion | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | English | German | French | Spanish | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5566 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 97 of 198 04 May 2011 at 7:32am | IP Logged | ||
|
Renee! Je gaat het Spaans studeren! Hartstikke leuk! Ik hoop dat je het echt genieten zal, en als je een vraagtje
heeft of zoiets, zal ik heel blij zijn om je te proberen helpen (maar denk ik dat je geen help nodig zal hebben). Ook als je wat pdf's over de woordenschat en gramma van het Spaans wilt, kan ik je ze sturen. Veel succes! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 98 of 198 04 May 2011 at 8:01am | IP Logged | ||
If it's your favorite, I hope you get a chance to watch the Dutch version Jungle Boek because the accents in that one are rather good as well. I especially like the voices of Colonel Hathi and Shere Khan. I'll try my best with all the different Spanish accents but I'm very bad at recognizing accents as a rule so don't expect too much from me. ;-) Edited by ReneeMona on 04 May 2011 at 8:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 99 of 198 04 May 2011 at 8:09am | IP Logged | ||
Hoi Vos, jep, ik kon ondanks al m'n eigen bezwaren de verleiding niet weerstaan. In tegendeel, ik denk dat ik hartstikke veel hulp nodig ga hebben dus bedankt voor het aanbod! Die pdf's klinken interessant, zal ik je een PM met m'n e-mailadres sturen? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5566 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 101 of 198 04 May 2011 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Ja zeker, doe maar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 102 of 198 04 May 2011 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I enjoy your posts so much, and I recognize myself in so much you say. On a scale of 1 to 10 I am a 5-6 when it comes to actual language studying, but I am a 18 when it comes to study material hoarding. If I count both films and books and courses I must have more than 50 different Russian items. If we are talking study material in general we are into the uncountables. :-)
I am sure you'll love Castilian. Knowing as much French as you do it will be a breeze. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 05 May 2011 at 5:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 103 of 198 05 May 2011 at 9:14am | IP Logged | ||
|
@ Kuikentje: Dankjewel. Ik vind het Spaans ook nogal snel gesproken maar dat vond ik vroeger ook van het Frans en dat kan ik me nu nauwelijks nog voorstellen dus ik hoop dat het met Spaans ook zo gaat.
@ Solfrid Christin: Thank you, that comment made my day! I’m probably a solid 18 on the hoarding scale as well. I bought an external hard disk not that long ago so I could finally collect all the materials I want but it’s filling up at an alarming speed so I’ll probably need a new one soon to be able to keep all of my materials. Yes, I’m finding Castilian quite easy so far. Thankfully, I’m not mixing it up with French at all, which was what I was most afraid of, but Castilian pronunciation is a bit strange to get used to after being so used to French for so long. Edited by ReneeMona on 05 May 2011 at 9:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 104 of 198 08 May 2011 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||
|
6 Week Challenge Castilian: week 1
I was feeling pretty good about this first week until I decided to check out the high scores on twitter to see how my score compared and now I feel dreadful. 20 hours, 30 hours, 50 HOURS! Are you all eating healthy and sleeping at regular intervals? Week 1: 6 h. 40 min. Total: 6 h. 40 min. Berlitz 02/20 Last week I predicted that Berlitz and I were not going to get on very well but I now realize that I may have been a little too hasty in saying this. The truth is that Berlitz and I hate each other, and I believe this hatred was born in just the first two minutes of our acquaintance. My main reasons for this hatred are: - The book is obviously aimed at prospective tourists and since I am not a tourist (and even when I am I still don’t like to be talked to as one), the dialogues are bound to annoy me. The one that introduced the first unit immediately rubbed me the wrong way because it concerned a tourist and a man (conveniently named El Señor) discussing the difference between a street plan, a map of the region and a book in a profound conversation that went one for two pages before the tourist left without buying anything. - The exercises are without question the most useless ones I’ve ever been made to do. For instance, the first chapter asked me to fill in the correct article for a bunch of words that were conveniently listed in the vocabulary list on the previous page, so I only needed to glance to the right to see what the correct gender of the word was. - The grammar explanations are abnormally long. The first chapter took out half a page to explain the difference between él no es and él es and then another to do the same for ella no es and ella es (and then made me do a whole page full of exercises to make sure I completely understood what was going on there). Okay, so I’m just whining, but I really do dislike this book and I’m considering giving up on it altogether. It all depends on whether the next few chapters are an improvement on the first two. Michel Thomas 13/83 Rather unexpectedly, MT is my favorite learning material so far. I often wonder why he still bothers to try to correct the students’ pronunciation because Dumb and Dumber seem quite intent on ignoring whatever he says. His third student is not paying too much attention to his advice either for two reasons: One, he teaches Latin American Spanish and since I have discovered that pronouncing Castilian feels vaguely like drinking a banana-yoghurt smoothie (my favorite), I look up pretty much every new word he teaches to see if the Castilian pronunciation differs from the LAS one, and two, I’ve been told his accent is pretty bad. :) Apart from these trifles, I’m really enjoying the course so far. The “stupid students to make you feel smart”-strategy works very well on me. I especially love it when MT asks us to translate a particularly long sentence and I’ve already given the answer before Dumb and Dumber have had time to say “uhm”. :) Assimil 02/109 I guess I needed a break from Assimil after finishing La pratique du français because it took quite some willpower to start on L’espagnol sans peine and I grew tired with it pretty quickly. Apart from that I watched La Sirenita (Spanish Flounder is so cute! :P), listened to several hours of Spanish music (not counted as study time of course) and worked on expanding my Anki deck with such useful words as “air freshener” and “flyswatter” that the Word of the Day service sends me. I was considering trying to write something in Castilian but I’m about to fall asleep on my keyboard so I think I’ll save the humiliation for when I’m awake enough to appreciate it. Edited by ReneeMona on 30 May 2011 at 4:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
