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renaissancemedi
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Greece
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Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, English^C2
Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew

Message 49 of 86

28 December 2012 at 11:00am | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

renaissancemedi wrote:

French: I would like to study it some more, and achieve a good level of spoken
fluency. It's a shame to understand a language well, but not to be able to use it equally well. Finish Michel
Thomas or/and Pimsleur, focusing on spoken french. Dig out all my french workbooks and really work on
them.

Greek: this might sound odd, but our native language deserves some care as well. Focus on the older styles
of greek, mainly attic and hellenistic, and instead of doing crossword puzzles reading "unknown" texts. That
is, passages from thematographiae books (I am not sure how you call them in English, but the phrase greek
reader comes to mind). Just do it for fun. That's how it always works best.

Language x: I want to really focus on a new language. Continue with my deplorable russian, or learn German
(useful but my heart is not in it), or continue with the hebrew I like so much. I am a bit confused on that one.

Edit: reading some of the previous posts on this thread, I thought it is better to set specific goals.

If you would like to further improve your native Greek, would like to work on your Russian and French and is
considering German, you seem like an ideal candidate for team Sparta, where most of us share those
languages. We have lots of room and would love to have you :-)

Thank you. You mean I can join?
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Rosen93
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Denmark
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Speaks: Danish*, English
Studies: Mandarin

Message 50 of 86

30 December 2012 at 1:21pm | IP Logged

I have so many languages that I would like to begin on this year, but for the first six months, my focus language is going to be Spanish. I’ve studied the language at school for the last 2½ years and it would be nice to be able to graduate with a good grade. :)

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Theodisce
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Poland
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Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German
Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese

Message 51 of 86

30 December 2012 at 3:02pm | IP Logged

renaissancemedi wrote:

Greek: this might sound odd, but our native language deserves some care as well. Focus on the older styles of greek, mainly attic and hellenistic, and instead of doing crossword puzzles reading "unknown" texts. That is, passages from thematographiae books (I am not sure how you call them in English, but the phrase greek reader comes to mind). Just do it for fun. That's how it always works best.

I've always wondered how difficult Attic Greek is for Modern Greek speakers.
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renaissancemedi
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30 December 2012 at 4:14pm | IP Logged

Theodisce wrote:

renaissancemedi wrote:

I've always wondered how difficult Attic Greek is for Modern Greek speakers.

It depends on the writer. Thucidides is amazing, crystal clear and easy I dare say (I love him). Isocrates, Lycias etc. are a breeze. Plato is a nightmare, but it's Plato's fault. (My opinion on Plato, of course).
After some (little) study, you end up being given any attic text and reading it like modern greek. I know because i've done it, in high school, as many kids before and since my time. Please bear in mind, that in 2.500 years, rocks have changed more than the very conservative greek language. But of course it has changed.
I confess, there are some ancient writers I could strangle. If they weren't already dead that is.

Edited by renaissancemedi on 30 December 2012 at 4:45pm
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ling
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Taiwan
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Speaks: English*, Mandarin
Studies: Indonesian, Thai

Message 53 of 86

31 December 2012 at 9:08am | IP Logged

Thai: Complete all the Thai materials I have, then spend a month in Thailand.
Indonesian: Not planning a trip to Indonesia, but I do plan on visiting Malaysia,
and as such I plan to resume my studies.
Vietnamese: Get started.
Croatian: Get started.
Turkish: Get started.
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NC181818
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Hong Kong
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Message 54 of 86

31 December 2012 at 12:59pm | IP Logged

Japanese: JLPT N5 in July, N4 in December.
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Expugnator
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Brazil
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Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento
Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian

Message 55 of 86

31 December 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged

French: I really dpn't know which is my leves át. English. Maybe a close B2. I want to get used to
spoken French, understand about 70% of it. I want to read about 10 novels and write 20 paragraphs.
Russian: I've just started. Want to be able to read language textbooks written for Russian speakers with
a dictionary.
Norwegian: gain básic reading fluêncy. Read one native novel and one translation.
Chinese: Achieve a solid B1 level, mainly with podcast.
Georgian Consolidate a B1 level. Read one translated and one original novels. Would be good if I
could read a Georgian-Russian parallel text and understand it, like Dumbadze's books.
English get basic fluency at understanding spoken standard American English. Watch a full season of a
TV series.
German: Be able to read a textbook in German about other languages comfortably.
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grunts67
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Speaks: French*, English
Studies: Spanish, Russian

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01 January 2013 at 3:02am | IP Logged

Get to a basic Spanish fluency level in all of the four areas.

Maybe continue Russian or start something new. Everything will depend if I am accepted or not into a program for this summer.

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