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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 353 of 656 12 June 2012 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
There's a Hindi version of this as well, Bheja Fry. It is 15 minutes longer than the French film, but is very short for a Hindi film. I remember enjoying it.... but there was no dancing!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5727 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 354 of 656 12 June 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: Portuguese
CHALLENGE: Half CURRENT LEVEL: A2 COMMENTS: I hope to be fluent in Portuguese for my trip to Brazil. This challenge will motivate me to keep up the studies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 355 of 656 12 June 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 356 of 656 13 June 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I liked your review, microsnount - so I've just added Le dîner de cons to my queue!
I got a lot of reading done this weekend, finishing the second book of Madame Bovary and one manga, Rohan au Louvre. This is the fifth of a series of graphic novels that the Louvre commissioned from mangakas, and the third I've read. It's 128 pages, though I'm logging it at 20 (1/5 of a 'book'), and this feels about right. I started writing down words that I had to look up, as recommended on the HTLAL Guide (FX's essential guide to learning a language), and my rates seem comparable between one graphic novel and 1/5 of a book. As an aside: I was shocked at how many words I was actually looking up. There's a lot of vocabulary out there! This is really helping me a lot in appeciating the text, as opposed to just undertanding it. The language becomes more alive when you know the exact definition of a word, rather than the general definition you can sense from the text. I'd highly recommend this for other intermediate learners. I thought about entering the words I wrote down into Anki, but there are too many of them. Next up: 115 more pages of Bovary, and Le Lotus blue - my first Tintin! I'm love it so far; it's very "Indiana Jones" and appeals to the 13 year old dreamer in me. Current count: 3 books (340 pages) and 6 films. Edited by kanewai on 13 June 2012 at 12:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5237 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 357 of 656 13 June 2012 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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As an aside: I was shocked at how many words I was actually looking up. There's a lot of vocabulary out there!
This is really helping me a lot in appeciating the text, as opposed to just undertanding it. The language becomes more alive when you know the exact definition of a word, rather than the general definition you can sense from the text. kanewai, I fully agree with you. My reading practice generally consists of being in front of google translate with a notebook, so I can write down words that I don't know. I don't do this for every one, but little by little, my vocabulary is improving. Most of these words haven't moved into my active vocab, but it"s nice to come upon a word later & recognize it passively. LIke you, I don't want to just "understand" the story, as if I need to pass a comprehension quiz at the end. I want to enjoy the text as much as I can, because reading is a real pleasure. I hadn't updated because I hadn't finished the book, but I'm 228 pages into La Piramide Roja. So I guess my list looks like: Libros: 1. La Casa en Mango Street (112) 2. No Bajes Al Sotano (121) Peliculas: 1. Solas I also am still reading some out loud for spoken practice. Well, back to my book, before the day starts in earnest! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5241 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 358 of 656 13 June 2012 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: French CHALLENGE: Half CURRENT LEVEL: A2/B1 COMMENTS: I've been ignoring my French for years, because I don't like studying it - this should be a good way to get it back in shape. There's some good recommendations here, so I'll be sure to follow them up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 359 of 656 13 June 2012 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5184 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 360 of 656 14 June 2012 at 3:05am | IP Logged | ||
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'Japanese Books
1. HunterxHunter treasures vol.1 manga 788 pages=157 pages 2. HunterxHunter treasures vol.2 manga 520 pages=104 pages Japanese Movies 1. となりのトトロ I really love this movie. I was pleased to find out that I could understand even more than when I watched it about a year ago. French Books 1. Easy French Reader 100 pages French Movies 1. Le Roi Lion 2. Mon Voisin Totoro I couldn't help but watch it in French after I watched it in Japanese since it was available and it's a movie I'm familiar enough with, even though I don't think I've ever watched it in English. I'm already starting to notice improvements in my French as my reading and watching reinforce each other and I'm starting to play with it a little in my mind, and every day it gets easier as I get used to using it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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