Wort Groupie Austria Joined 4538 days ago 82 posts - 87 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Spanish
| Message 153 of 439 03 January 2013 at 10:07am | IP Logged |
I hope you will achieve your goals fabricio! Good Luck! :)
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 154 of 439 04 January 2013 at 1:09am | IP Logged |
Good luck with all your language studies this year, Fabricio!
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 155 of 439 06 January 2013 at 1:38am | IP Logged |
Thank you all guys for the support! Again, I have great news! =)
РУССКИЙ:
I got to practice A LOOOOT of Russian this week, I'm even impressed with myself. I had a Belarusian friend on Livemocha with whom I hadn't spoken for quite a while. I had nothing to do at work, so I went to her on chat and said Привет! That's when all began! Ahahaha
We started chatting in Russian (since her English is not great, according to her) for 4 hours straight! That was a record! The next day we chatted again for about 2/3 hours, and then came the best part: we decided to try a Skype spoken conversation....brrrr... and it was terrific! =D I was so glad that again, I could understand about 85% (sometimes more) of what she said, I was able to express myself clearly (even with a lot of errors) and we went on for 45 minutes!!!! \o/ \o/ She complimented my Russian, said that for a foreigner I have an excelent accent and could understand all of what I said. Another great confidence booster after a lazy week =D
FRANÇAIS:
Very good also! I didn't really study anything, but practiced a looooooot of French by chatting with a Canadian friend, people on Livemocha and @tarvos. This week (hopefully starting today) I'll go back to my Assimil book, review the last 5-10 lessons and then move to the next one. I'm glad about the "rate" with which my French is evolving, mostly because I can already see it in action (even if only written by now, but anyways). =)
That's it for now guys! I hope we can arrenge a Skype meeting for both teams MIR and ROMULAN soon enough!
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 156 of 439 06 January 2013 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
Note to self. Must not be envious. Or if envious, must not show it:-)
Jokes aside, I am so happy for you that you can speak Russian with ease. That's brilliant! In 4-5 years I hope to be there too :-)
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 157 of 439 06 January 2013 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
Wow! What kind of job do you have that you can chat for 4 hours?! I've got to get me one of those jobs! Where do I apply?
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Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian
| Message 158 of 439 06 January 2013 at 9:18am | IP Logged |
Excellent news on the Russian front! :D I'm very happy for you!
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 159 of 439 06 January 2013 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
Wow! What kind of job do you have that you can chat for 4 hours?! I've got to get me one of those jobs! Where do I apply? |
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I'm a programmer, so I stay behind the computer literally all day =P But it was actually at the end of the day, so probably 1h30 while at work, then I went home and we continued for more 2h30 or so. =)
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 160 of 439 07 January 2013 at 10:10pm | IP Logged |
A great study day for....
FRANÇAIS:
Like I said a few post above, I'm a programmer. I got to work at 9am as usual, turned my computer on, my boss had traveled so I had very few things to do.... and bang! I find out that the internet isn't working =/ That pratically ruined my (and my colleagues') work day. We called the company responsible and they said they would "send a guy" (yeah, I'm still waiting...just at home now) =P
While we were waiting to see if the internet would come back, I thought I was a good idea to get my French Assimil book and take a new lesson.
I actually started by re-reading ALL the previous lessons, from 1 to 21. Then I went to lesson 22. And then to 23. And then to 24! I don't know if it's a good practice, but I'd been away from Assimil for quite a while and I had literally nothing to do there without the internet. During lunch time I listened to the previous lessons from 10 to 21, and then again the last 3 ones. My understanding is pretty good, but I'll give a more accurate overview when I get to the next review lesson =)
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