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bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 1 of 29 08 January 2011 at 11:10pm \| IP Logged
	Hi, My log this year is going to be primarily for German for the first few months because I´m taking a German class at the university here so it will be for sure 3 times a week at least just in the classroom and several hours outside of class of myself studying and reviewing/praticing etc. For the latter part of the year or maybe half way through it´ll be more for Russian and to improve my Russian to a higher level. I´m not quite sure what my level is at now, I´d say my writing needs the most work but that will be a long work in progress for a long time to come, so easier goals would be to improve my vocabulary and maybe my grammar a bit more. For Russian I´ll be using mostly resources I already bought (books, grammar books, verb books etc), and LingQ for reading and listening for sure. Also random Russian news sites I know of to brush up on reading. I just want to be able to make myself more clearer when speaking I guess. As it is now I have no problems besides the occasional odd word I don´t know, but need more practice with cases I guess. German I want to be basically fluent I guess, I think this is very realistic and achievable, especially speaking Dutch it helps a lot! Last year my goal was to be able to hold a conversation in Russian by the end of the year with my friends. I´d say this goal was met because I can now converse no problems in Russian with them, with asking only once and a while for certain words in Russian. Taking the first level of German at the university was just an introduction but I can understand a lot of German now. After this semester I imagine it´ll be twice as much! If I have time I will dip into Portuguese with Assimil Le Portugais du Brésil. So.. I´ll try to update this much more than I updated last year. Not everyday because I have a full course load at school (5) so I will be busy enough with that however I´ll update whenever possible. Success to everyone else participating! Edited by bramsterdam on 08 January 2011 at 11:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful
joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5463 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German	Message 2 of 29 09 January 2011 at 11:22am \| IP Logged
	I see you've added Russian to your fluent languages... Congrats toyou! 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 3 of 29 10 January 2011 at 6:56am \| IP Logged
	Thanks. I´m not sure if I can say totally fluent or not yet but I know now I have no problems holding a conversation regardless of the topic so, I´d say above intermediate level for sure now. 1 person has voted this message useful
joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5463 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German	Message 4 of 29 10 January 2011 at 9:52am \| IP Logged
	Well, basic fluency isn't supposed to be perfect. 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 5 of 29 11 January 2011 at 10:29pm \| IP Logged
	Today went through a few LingQ conversations, basically reading/listening exercises. On Thursday hopefully will have some more time to go through them again. Heute habe ich ein paar Gespräche von LingQ durch gelesen. Wahrscheinlich Donnertag tue ich (hoffentlich) wieder als ich Zeit habe. Alles was habe ich Heute gelesen, verstehe mit keine Probleme sondern ein paar Worte, die sind sehr komplizierte. In die Vorlesungen lernen wir jetzt die Akkusativ mit Personalpronomen also mich, dich, euch, etc. Es ist nicht so schwer weil ich habe schon Erfahrung mit diese auf Russische (als menya, tebya, vas, etc). Edited by bramsterdam on 11 January 2011 at 11:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 6 of 29 20 January 2011 at 8:21pm \| IP Logged
	Update I continue to go through LingQ conversations, they are very good resources. Other than that been reading the newspaper to/from the university to home on my mobile. Die Schweiz Zeitungen oder Die Zeit (Deutschland). Ich möchte mehr Russische lernen aber ja.. ich habe nicht so viel Zeit mit meine fünf Vorlesungen jede Woche und es ist ja ein bisschen schwierig zu tun. Ich habe Gestern mit einen Freunde auf Russische gesprochen, war prima. Aber mit Deutsch geht es gute, letzte Woche hatte ich 100% auf meine erst Quiz. Edited by bramsterdam on 20 January 2011 at 8:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 7 of 29 15 February 2011 at 6:34am \| IP Logged
	Wow, long time since last update. I´ve been really busy with school this semester. German classes are going great ich habe sehr viel gelernt und jeden Tag lerne ich immer mehr. I havn´t been able to study too much Russian but I see my girlfriend´s parents usually once a week or every two weeks and only speak in Russian with them so its great there. Saturday is a friend´s birthday followed by mine on Sunday. I´m gonna attempt to write out a speech for him in Russian see how it goes. 1 person has voted this message useful
Alexander.Stoma Bilingual Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6296 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Russian, Belarusian, English^B2 Studies: Spanish	Message 8 of 29 15 February 2011 at 7:49am \| IP Logged
	Good luck in yuor journey! Iа you want to practice Russian you can call me through Skype. 1 person has voted this message useful

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bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 1 of 29 08 January 2011 at 11:10pm \| IP Logged
	Hi, My log this year is going to be primarily for German for the first few months because I´m taking a German class at the university here so it will be for sure 3 times a week at least just in the classroom and several hours outside of class of myself studying and reviewing/praticing etc. For the latter part of the year or maybe half way through it´ll be more for Russian and to improve my Russian to a higher level. I´m not quite sure what my level is at now, I´d say my writing needs the most work but that will be a long work in progress for a long time to come, so easier goals would be to improve my vocabulary and maybe my grammar a bit more. For Russian I´ll be using mostly resources I already bought (books, grammar books, verb books etc), and LingQ for reading and listening for sure. Also random Russian news sites I know of to brush up on reading. I just want to be able to make myself more clearer when speaking I guess. As it is now I have no problems besides the occasional odd word I don´t know, but need more practice with cases I guess. German I want to be basically fluent I guess, I think this is very realistic and achievable, especially speaking Dutch it helps a lot! Last year my goal was to be able to hold a conversation in Russian by the end of the year with my friends. I´d say this goal was met because I can now converse no problems in Russian with them, with asking only once and a while for certain words in Russian. Taking the first level of German at the university was just an introduction but I can understand a lot of German now. After this semester I imagine it´ll be twice as much! If I have time I will dip into Portuguese with Assimil Le Portugais du Brésil. So.. I´ll try to update this much more than I updated last year. Not everyday because I have a full course load at school (5) so I will be busy enough with that however I´ll update whenever possible. Success to everyone else participating! Edited by bramsterdam on 08 January 2011 at 11:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful
joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5463 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German	Message 2 of 29 09 January 2011 at 11:22am \| IP Logged
	I see you've added Russian to your fluent languages... Congrats toyou! 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 3 of 29 10 January 2011 at 6:56am \| IP Logged
	Thanks. I´m not sure if I can say totally fluent or not yet but I know now I have no problems holding a conversation regardless of the topic so, I´d say above intermediate level for sure now. 1 person has voted this message useful
joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5463 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German	Message 4 of 29 10 January 2011 at 9:52am \| IP Logged
	Well, basic fluency isn't supposed to be perfect. 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 5 of 29 11 January 2011 at 10:29pm \| IP Logged
	Today went through a few LingQ conversations, basically reading/listening exercises. On Thursday hopefully will have some more time to go through them again. Heute habe ich ein paar Gespräche von LingQ durch gelesen. Wahrscheinlich Donnertag tue ich (hoffentlich) wieder als ich Zeit habe. Alles was habe ich Heute gelesen, verstehe mit keine Probleme sondern ein paar Worte, die sind sehr komplizierte. In die Vorlesungen lernen wir jetzt die Akkusativ mit Personalpronomen also mich, dich, euch, etc. Es ist nicht so schwer weil ich habe schon Erfahrung mit diese auf Russische (als menya, tebya, vas, etc). Edited by bramsterdam on 11 January 2011 at 11:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 6 of 29 20 January 2011 at 8:21pm \| IP Logged
	Update I continue to go through LingQ conversations, they are very good resources. Other than that been reading the newspaper to/from the university to home on my mobile. Die Schweiz Zeitungen oder Die Zeit (Deutschland). Ich möchte mehr Russische lernen aber ja.. ich habe nicht so viel Zeit mit meine fünf Vorlesungen jede Woche und es ist ja ein bisschen schwierig zu tun. Ich habe Gestern mit einen Freunde auf Russische gesprochen, war prima. Aber mit Deutsch geht es gute, letzte Woche hatte ich 100% auf meine erst Quiz. Edited by bramsterdam on 20 January 2011 at 8:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful
bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian	Message 7 of 29 15 February 2011 at 6:34am \| IP Logged
	Wow, long time since last update. I´ve been really busy with school this semester. German classes are going great ich habe sehr viel gelernt und jeden Tag lerne ich immer mehr. I havn´t been able to study too much Russian but I see my girlfriend´s parents usually once a week or every two weeks and only speak in Russian with them so its great there. Saturday is a friend´s birthday followed by mine on Sunday. I´m gonna attempt to write out a speech for him in Russian see how it goes. 1 person has voted this message useful
Alexander.Stoma Bilingual Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6296 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Russian, Belarusian, English^B2 Studies: Spanish	Message 8 of 29 15 February 2011 at 7:49am \| IP Logged
	Good luck in yuor journey! Iа you want to practice Russian you can call me through Skype. 1 person has voted this message useful