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| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5718 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 17 of 34 07 January 2011 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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6-7 января
For some reason I couldn't update this post yesterday because the forum wouldn't load for me, but I watched the film Родня (kinship) and also listened to the audio from some other films on my hard drive. Sometimes if I have to multitask and don't have the time to sit and watch a 2-hour movie, I'll listen to the audio while doing something else. As for today, I went on SharedTalk. I originally was going to observe some German conversations, but three Russians ended up talking to me and I had some good conversations with them - I talked for a bit about Ukrainian/Russian dialects too. I also did more messaging today and yesterday on vkontakte. Tomorrow I'm going back to Washington, DC for school, since it's the end of my winter break. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 34 08 January 2011 at 10:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you watch films in Russian only, or do you still need subtitles? I am almost assuming that you don't, so I wander how much of the films you understand. 80%, 90%?
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| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5718 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 19 of 34 08 January 2011 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
I have some films with English subtitles, but if I had my way I would watch them with Russian subtitles. I'd say that I usually can understand about 80%, but it depends on the simplicity of the film and how clearly the characters are speaking. Also, I tend to understand more when I've watched the film multiple times, of course. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5718 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 20 of 34 09 January 2011 at 2:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm back in Washington, DC - flew in today. People are in my room right now watching
some game (football, basketball, I have no idea and don't care). For some reason the university isn't letting me log in to their Internet from my dorm, so I went to the library only to find that it was closed because classes haven't yet begun. But I've found myself a nice little asylum in the basement of one of the main buildings, where the main computer lab is closed down but there are a few computers still available for use. I've been standing here (there are no chairs) for probably 1-2 hours messaging Russians. It's a nice distraction from the noise and bad smells in my dorm - maybe I'll hang out here more often. I also met some Russians on the plane, but since I wasn't sitting near them I couldn't really have a deep conversation - I just asked them where they were from in Russian and they said that they now live in Washington. I also reviewed some German vocabulary on the plane...fun wanderlust. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 21 of 34 09 January 2011 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Now that is what I would call dedication! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5786 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 22 of 34 09 January 2011 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, snovymgodom,
I understand very well your problems related to you living conditions. During my university sudies I was living in the dorm - it was a hell! Привет, С Новым годом, Очень хорошо понимаю ваши жилищные проблемы. Когда я училась в Университете, я тоже жила в общежитии, и это не самое лучшее воспоминание в моей жизни..Сочувствую. Аня 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5718 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 23 of 34 10 January 2011 at 6:16am | IP Logged | ||
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9 января
Привет Аня! На самом деле, когда я учился на первом и втором курсе, у меня не было проблем в общежитии. Только мне в этом году пришлось жить с человеком, который всё время лежит и смотрит телевизор. Его половины комната - бардак (и плохо пахнет). У нас по телевизору показывали какой-то матч американского футбола. Поэтому некоторые знакомые собрались сюда, чтобы её смотреть. Я вообще люблю общаться с друзьями, но когда сижу дома я предпочитаю более спокойную атмосферу. Особенно когда я стремлюсь к серь ёзным языковым целям. Но всё равно я не хочу слишком много жаловаться, потому что вокруг нас живут много бомжей, у которых никакой комнаты нет. Today I went to the library at around noon and was there for a few hours doing the messaging thing on Vkontakte and also playing that Russian-language hospital game again. I got a little distracted because one of my friends saw me and wanted to talk, but he also is learning Russian (he started studying the language this year) and may want my help at some point. After a break, I spent some more time at the library, watched a little bit of Берегись автомобиля in my room (but didn't get to really focus due to distractions). Then my friends wanted to get together, so we had dinner and hung out for a few hours. One of my friends in that group is Russian, so I did get some conversation in. Ever since I started learning Russian, it has been a rule that if I meet someone who speaks Russian (or if I hear Russian on the street), I have to talk in Russian with them, at least for a little bit. This is especially important when living in a non-Russian-speaking country since you can't guarantee every day that you'll run into Russians on the street (unless you live in a place like Brighton Beach). Anyway, I'm back in the basement of that building doing some more messaging. Hopefully this will be the last time I have to come here, because tomorrow the library will resume its schedule of being open for 24 hours. The funny thing is that this building is open until 2 AM, though I've never heard of people actually needing to do things here that late. Anyway, tomorrow is my first day of classes! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5718 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 24 of 34 11 January 2011 at 7:34am | IP Logged | ||
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10 января
Today was the first day of classes - I had my Russian poetry class today, though it was just an introduction; we didn't get to reading actual poetry today. Still was nice to listen and speak to Russian though. This class will be Monday and Wednesday. I also did some more messaging on vkontakte, but not as much as I did the previous days, since I was pretty occupied today with class. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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