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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 96 10 January 2012 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Don't put youself down. At the end of this year you will speak Russian very well. A little starting problems will not change that :-)
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 10 of 96 10 January 2012 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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It wouldn't be a space flight without a few temperamental light switches and false starts...but have no doubt, we're going up this year! :)
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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 96 11 January 2012 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I think German should be a little bit easier for you, since English and German are close relatives. It seems to me that one should focus on one language at a time, so when you focus on Russian, it will be easier.
Don't get disappointed, studying languages is a matter of persistency :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4977 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 12 of 96 12 January 2012 at 6:29am | IP Logged | ||
Aye, aye, Cap'n! (I wasn't sure how to sound 'space-talky' without referring to Houston, which isn't fair because it isn't international, so I defaulted to navy speak). @Solfrid: I sure hope so! @drsarvo: Indeed, German is quite close to English, and I'm definitely appreciating the cognates. The fact that there are only four cases and the grammar, overall, is simpler, helps, too. One thing that I prefer about Russian, though, is the looser word order. German is strict and confusing for me in that regard. :-/ But MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: I've realized I can understand Bulgarian! This would seem only natural, considering my ties with Serbian and Russian, but I never noticed it before. I could understand every word in this video, and could even read the Youtube comments below without a problem!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEJUNKA6F3Q&feature=related (Don't ask me how I came across that video--you know how it goes with Youtube after midnight...you end up in Youtube's weirdest crevices in no time at all and with no knowledge of how you got there). I must have looked like a hypnotized doll sitting in front of my computer just now, with eyes wide as saucers and a huge smile plastered on my face. I mean, I was aware of the similarities between Bulgarian and Serbo- Croatian/Russian, but it's only just now clicked. Watching that Youtube video, I could only think how the people dancing about on stage were identical to the characters in my own head. That is, in my head, Serbian and Russian always get mashed up, so to see sentences formerly floating only in my in my cerebral cortex suddenly manifest in real life is amazing. Alright, happy rant done now. Edited by Tecktight on 12 January 2012 at 6:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4977 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 13 of 96 13 January 2012 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Update: January 12, 2012
GERMAN Nada, thus far. :/ I'll try to update my blog this evening. RUSSIAN 20 minutes of listening and reading the text being spoken. Watched a film called <<Чёрная молния>> Read a story in <<cказки народов сибири>> called <<чайки и красавица ангара>> or "The Gulls and Angara the Beautiful" in English. Took me about 30 minutes. Edited by Tecktight on 14 January 2012 at 11:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 14 of 96 18 January 2012 at 9:35am | IP Logged | ||
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did you have to take your German test yet? if so, how did you do?
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| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4977 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 15 of 96 19 January 2012 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha, nice of you to remember! :D Funny you should mention it, because here's what happened. I talked to the head of my university's department, and she said that, rather than testing me, she would just let me sit in on the first two weeks of the more- advanced course, whose professor will assess my performance. If both that professor and I conclude that I possess a skill level sufficient enough to survive the class, I can stay! Yesterday was my first class. I managed to keep up rather well, though I must admit I was rather intimidated. The style of the class is completely different from the class I was in last semester. Rather than being structured around basic grammar constructions, it revolves around reading texts and watching films and such. So, basically, I've gone from exercises on Accusative endings to reading Märchen in about a month. I.e. the jump is huge. But not that huge. Somehow, I'm still keeping up, a fact which seems to be good to be true. We'll see how I fare for the rest of the class. I must say that I do love this style of learning. I picked up an anthology of poetry which I'm now going through for reading practice, and I love it. Grammar is interesting (to an extent), but it's not nearly as fun as learning through native materials. My speaking skills, I believe, are still lacking, so that's an area I'm definitely going to try to work on. Perhaps I can find a member on here willing to help me out via Skype or some such platform...provided they're willing to endure me absolutely butcher their language. xD 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4798 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 16 of 96 23 January 2012 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
I gotta say, that was awfully nice of the professor! I guess testing is the norm, usually :) I hope you do great! You're right, learning grammar is fun if you don't take it too literally with all the fancy words, but native content is so much more alluring. I find it easier to pick grammar after I listen to, watch, or read native material. It sort of crystallizes in a way, and I'm able to visualize it more clearly. It's happening with Japanese, in my case, so I'm trying to give Russian a fair break and approach it in the same way. Whoops, this post just turned into an essay. Excuse my rant :) Good luck! I started school last week, too, and it'll be a challenge juggling languages and coursework! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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