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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5210 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 89 of 204 09 January 2013 at 1:50am | IP Logged | ||
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May I encourage people to head over to the TAC 2012
voting thread, and to vote? If I could repeat some of what I said there: Even if you haven't been following many logs throughout the year, you could - since we now have most of the links of finishers handily gathered in that thread - perhaps scan some of the ones you've missed? (I use the "Printable version" link at the bottom of the page for quick scanning.) Those logs for your respective target languages would of course be likely to be of the most immediate use, but reading logs for languages you're not studying can also be both very inspiring and useful, with respect to general study techniques/challenges. Some of the best are outstanding examples of both language-learning and log-keeping. (Cross posted to my other team thread, Schnitzel.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5311 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 90 of 204 16 January 2013 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Apologies for my lack of activity so far this year. I was away for the first week and then came back to start of term exams last Friday. Since then I've been rather swamped with new term things and a seemingly infinite to do list, but I will get around to catching up on all your logs, I promise!
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| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5210 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 91 of 204 17 January 2013 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Word discovery of the week:
I recently posted a piece on my log post 142, which included my happy discovery of the French word for "shower-head" : pomme de douche, literally "apple of the shower", to which Quique replied,
And it led me to wonder: what is this object called in other Romance languages? And what other weird and wonderful names might there be for any other commonplace household (or otherwise) objects? Have you come across any terms which have made you similarly laugh in delighted recognition, nodding in agreement; startled or amused you, or just tickled your fancy? If so, do share... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4890 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 92 of 204 17 January 2013 at 7:58am | IP Logged | ||
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oooh, I can't wait to use "pomme de douche" in a sentence!
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| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5210 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 93 of 204 17 January 2013 at 8:21am | IP Logged | ||
Well, you know what they say about vocabulary acquisition: the right context will go a long way in helping you remember it..! [smile] 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5210 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 94 of 204 25 January 2013 at 8:38am | IP Logged | ||
One little activity which I invite other Pax members to also try:
My vocab list is at post 157, for anyone else who's doing French. Feel free to snaffle it for your Anki lists etc if you wish. - Haven't changed my computer to French yet, though. (Baby steps...) Has/is anyone else done/is doing the same for their target languages? Edited by songlines on 25 January 2013 at 8:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4890 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 95 of 204 25 January 2013 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I changed my iphone to French. So far it's been really, really irritating! I recently
discovered that, when Siri asks "Que puis-je faire pur vous?" there's a little "i" I can hit for information, and that gives me possible commands. The strangest part is that I need to pronounce my friend's names with a super exaggerated French accent for Siri to understand me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fezmond Groupie Korea, South Joined 4927 days ago 72 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 96 of 204 25 January 2013 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wish I could change my phone but it only does Korean and English.
I changed chrome to French and was thinking about changing Windows 7 to French but too scared too...especially as I don't have a premium version 1 person has voted this message useful |
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