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Andanzas Extranjeras: Team Ñ - TAC2011 | ||
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 1 of 137 04 January 2011 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||
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So another young, newborn year is upon us, and after the last 4 weeks of relaxing and rejuvination, I’m much
excited, ready and looking forward to what this year may hold. My main focus this year will be Spanish. I seem to have an inexhaustable amount of love and motivation for the language, every aspect of it I simply adore... The sound, the rhythm, it’s flexibility, the visual look and presence of the language, how wonderfully it intertwines and works with basically any kind of instrumentation, and all those beautifully poetic expressions which are used in daily life, e.g. Dar a luz - Lit. To give to light. Meaning - To give birth. But of course the main thing which keeps this language vital and full of energy and spirit, is it’s people and culture. And how could one not be motivated and inspired by the Spanish language when there is so much amazing Spanish music around and constantly being created. Some of the most creative and original writers (Jorge Luis Borges, need we say more), and of course some exceptionally unique and brilliant film makers. And then there is the warmth and openness of it’s people, and their passion for the enjoying of live and the good things there in. Goals & Aspirations: So what are my Spanish goals and plans for the year then? Well, I’d say I’m currently around the B1 level at present, and as 90% of my language time and energy will be going towards Spanish throughout the year, I’d love to reach the C1 level. Although a solid B2 in every aspect of the language, reading, writing, speaking and comprehension would be very happily received also. The two main things I need to work on this year is speaking and listening comprehension, as these are without a doubt my least developed areas. Speaking being zero, apart from talking to myself occasionally and singing along with Manu Chao. Luckily however this year I’ll be doing an intermediate Spanish subject at my uni beginning March, so that will force me to start speaking and hopefully also increase my listening comprehension dramatically. I think I’m also going to take the step and stop being so selfconscious, and try to find a few intercambios via skype and around the city also. I’ll also be finishing of Colloquial Spanish 2, which I’m half way through at the moment, and then move on to Colloquial Spanish of Latin America 2, in combination with the workbook which I’ll be using as part of my uni subject. Then in the second part of the year, depending on my level, I will either do the Aula 4, difusión student book (B2) or the El ventilador, difusión student book (C1), which is offered by the Instituto Cervantes. As I’m thinking I may try to sit, or atleast aim to sit the DELE C1 Level (Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera) at the end of the year or the beginning of 2012 sometime. Other languages?: Well I’m still not sure yet. Although it hardly need be said that I’m interested in other languages and would like to make some ground in them, I think I’d prefer to aim for fluency in one first, rather than a slow procession towards an intermediate level in a few. Although if my language obsession didn’t have uni to contend with, then I’d definitely have atleast one other language on the active study plate. That being said I am prone to foreign dreamings as much as the next person, and the two languages which I keep coming back to and thinking about are Polish and German. So in the second half of the year when I’ll have a bit more free time, or perhaps even earlier, I may add one of those languages to the active list. Where does my Dutch stand at the moment in all of this?: At present, being in Australia, I feel a bit dejected in regards to het Nederlands. Simply as thoughts I had in regards to speaking it with my family didn’t particularly turn out the way I had hoped. They speak a dialect (Twents), so they find it a little bit difficult to understand me sometimes when I speak, as I was learning Algemeen Nederlands, Standard Dutch. Also after some twenty years of them speaking to me in English, they are very used to that way of communicating with me, and despite my efforts, don’t particularly want to change that routine. So, I still wish to learn the language, very much so, but in present circumstances it’s just a bit depressing which naturally effects my motivation. So I’m thinking a break from the language may be the best decision in the long run, as it will allow me to rediscover those reasons which made me start learning it in the first place, and then I can once again learn it for myself instead of for others. On a lighter note, I do plan on spending a good amount of time in The Netherlands in the future, and I will most definitely continue my studies then. En het gaat hartstikke leuk zijn! So a good year of language, life and living has dawned once more, and I look very much forward to supporting and following my team mates during the year (¡a big hello to Team Ñ!), not to mention following all the other interesting logs and characters which I’ll be reading with much interest in 2011. ¡Vamos! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Monte_Cristo Newbie United States Joined 5198 days ago 27 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 137 04 January 2011 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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¡Hola! The way you speak about the Spanish language is beautiful...makes me remember why I chose to study it in the first place. It is too bad that your Dutch plan isn't quite working out the way that you wanted, but I'm sure things will all work out eventually!
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| nuriayasmin Senior Member Germany Joined 5244 days ago 155 posts - 210 votes | Message 3 of 137 05 January 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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A mí también me gusta como hablas de la lengua española y siento exactamente lo mismo. Estoy feliz que somos en el mismo grupo y espero que puedamos ayudarnos uno a otro. Bien, ya me ayudaste porque no conocía aquellos libros del Instituto Cervantes y nunca los vi en ninguna libreria pero es posible comprarlos en amazon.de y me parecen ser buenos.
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 4 of 137 06 January 2011 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you both for the kind words.
Monte Cristo - Thanks Cristo. It’s quite easy to talk about something which I find so intrinsically wonderful and uplifting. As for my Dutch, these things happen. I was a bit down about it a few months ago, but I understand the situation well now, and it just goes to show that having the right motivations and reasons for studying a language really is of the utmost importance. Look forward to seeing your progress this year Cristo, ¡mucha suerte con tus lenguajes! Nuriayasmin - Feliz que yo podía ayudar. Estoy contento que somos en el mismo grupo también, porque para mí parece que somos por el mismo nivel, que es estupendo, ya que podremos ayudar y alentarnos a lo largo del año. ¡Mucha suerte con tus lenguajes también! Looking forward to (how does one say this in Español?) following your log. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 137 09 January 2011 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hola Vos, te deseo mucha suerte este año :) Me gusta también como escribís acerca del español. A propósito, "looking forward to" quiere decir "tener muchas ganas de" - por ejemplo "Tengo muchas ganas de leer tu log"
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 6 of 137 10 January 2011 at 2:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Así que en el fin de semana, conduje toda la manera a la ciudad (por 70km) a ir a la biblioteca Cervantes, y ¿qué
pasó? la biblioteca estuvo cerrada. ¡Qué molesto! Y entonces fui a unas tiendas de discos musicales para intentar encontrar unos discos por Ojos de Brujo y Joaquín Sabina, ¡Y nada! No tenían nada. Definitivamente no estuvo mí día. Creo que voy a tener que mandarlos por internet. So time for a bit of an update me thinks. I rarely logged my physical progress last year, but think I will try and make note of it this time round as it would be interesting to see how much work I actually get through during the year. So in the last 4 weeks or so, as I’ve been on holidays, I’ve added around 600 words with sentences to Anki, which now brings the total to 1182. I’ve read a few short stories (Walimai - Isabel Allende) and a bunch of articles from the online magazine, Viente Mundos, which is a really great resource and all the articles are about life, culture, art, music, food, travel, politics etc within the 20 Spanish speaking countries. The articles are graded intermediate level and advanced, you can download a pdf with a heap of vocabulary (Spanish - English and sometimes Spanish - German) corresponding to the different sections and articles within the magazine. You’re also able to download the magazine being read out loud by (I think) a Chilian fellow, so if you like to follow the reading whilst listening to a native, you can. Although there is zero intonation and expression in his reading, and it’s read quite fast, so can get a bit monotonous. But quite useful when you’re unsure of how to pronounce a word. I’ve also finished a few chapters of Colloquial Spanish 2, and currently up to chapter 8. And I’m nearly at the end of season 4 of El Internado. Nooo!! Hopefully I can find somewhere online to get the following seasons from. And will definitely have to hunt down some new Spanish series to keep my ears active. So that’s basically were I stand at present.
¡Quabazaa! Lindo oír de tú, iba escribir en tu log esta mañana deseándote un gran año de vida y idioma también, y aquí estás. He estado siguiendo tu log durante la semana pasada, tienes unas lenguas muy interesantes allí, y tengo muchas ganas de leer tu log y ver tu progreso, especialmente con el árabe. Me imagino que sería un desafío bastante grande (destacando lo bastante). ¿Cómo anda todo en Suiza? Y por casualidad, los libros leído por Borges, ¿se puede encontrarlos en internet? Tengo que darte gracias también por tu hilo acerca de la música española, encontré Mercedes Sosa en esa manera. Y ¡qué bien es Sucio y Desprolijo! Gran canción. Bueno, mucha suerte con todo, disfruta tu tiempo en Suiza, y muchas gracias por explicarme cómo expresar 'to look forward to' en castellano. Hasta luego 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 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 7 of 137 10 January 2011 at 4:16am | IP Logged | ||
¿Tú también ves El Internado? Qué fantástica serie, ¿a que sí? Yo casi he terminado la séptima (y, desafortunadamente, la última) temporada y te puedo asegurar que las últimas tres son las mejores. Tantas cosas increíbles suceden y todas las historias se complican aún más. Muchísimos personajes importantes se mueren y averiguarás que algunos de los personajes no son tan buenos como parezcan. En los últimos meses he estado tratando de saborearlo para que dure más tiempo, pero ahora sólo tengo dos capítulos más hasta el fin de la serie. Si todavía no tienes una adicción, ya la tendrás muy pronto. Es sin duda la mejor serie de televisión que he visto nunca. Puedes seguir mirándolo en el sitio de Antena 3 (http://www.antena3.com/videos/el-internado/temporada-5.html ), pero a veces no funciona. Tal vez www.zonaelinternado.com sería mejor, y puedes encontrar el capítulo que necesites haciendo una búscada en Google poniendo “El Internado” y el título del capítulo (hay una lista con las nombres en Wikipedia). ¡Que te diviertas muchísimo! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 8 of 137 13 January 2011 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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He hecho un poco de coser hoy, no he cosido dentro de muchos años. Y ahora me siento un poco frustrado ya
que cuando coso, saca (o trae fuera? - it brings out) el perfeccionist dentro de me. Mí ideas y imaginación casi concurren nunca con mi paciencia, por desgracia. Aunque aún gran diversión. Así que como mucha gente ya ha oído, Australia está inundado en el noreste con muchas aldeas completamente bajo el agua. La cantidad de agua que ha caído durante la semana pasada es increíble. Incluso la ciudad de Brisbane está inundado. Y aparentemente está para hacerse peor. ¡El verano australiano maravilloso!
¡Ah! Así que hay serie más, fantástico. De verdad, las tres primeras temporadas no entendí nada de lo que decían, y sólo en la cuarta temporada he empezado a entender un poco. Pero eso no me ha detenido de disfrutándolo un montón. Y además ha sido un gran ayuda con mis habilidades de escuchar. Pero sí, tengo un vicio pequeño, sin embargo siempre creciendo. Y ahora especialmente ya que todavía tengo ¡tres temporadas más! (...Me estoy preguntando ahora de qué pasarán a todos...). Tantas historias van (going on?) y todas son interesantes. ¿Has visto nunca Dexter? Tengo un vicio grande con ese programa, y tengo cuatro temporadas en español con subtítulos españoles. Prefiero programas verdaderos españoles, como El Internado, pero aún es muy bien. Muchas gracias con tu ayuda con encontrar las tres temporadas siguientes. Y más importante buena suerte con tus estudios de idiomas este año. ¡Tus metas son increíbles y tu aptitud para aprender idiomas es fenomenal! Tengo muchas ganas de seguir tu log este año. Update Anki - 1262 A few hours of audio (film, audiobooks, music) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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