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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 9 of 51 05 January 2013 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
renaissancemedi wrote:
I have neglected the challenge so far. Not only is German becoming my focus,
but I am seriously thinking to start russian again (after many years), and learn turkish as well. Not to
mention how I really really really like hebrew...
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Tell me about it. My husband is considering filing for divorce, citing infidelity with the forum as the main
cause :-)
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 10 of 51 06 January 2013 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
LOL, my own husband hasn't understood what's happening yet, but I'll let him gradually get the message!
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 11 of 51 06 January 2013 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
By the way, I've asked to join a russian team, so this french log may suffer a russian transformation!
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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 12 of 51 06 January 2013 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
The Russian team is closed but you could try asking Slavic/Romance “Nebun”. That would cover both the French and the Russian. Just let me know on the sign-up thread if you join, OK?
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 13 of 51 06 January 2013 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
Yes, I will be joining the Nebun team, with great pleasure. This means I can fit in my french challenge, but it will be slow and somewhat irregular. But that's ok.
So, my main focus will be German and russian.
Let me share with you some of my past with the russian language.
My main foreign language was English. At the age of 10 I asked to learn french, and my parents got me a tutor.
When I entered the university, I found out that as a student I could learn any language I wanted for very little money. Most of my friends went for Italian, Spanish, french, German, even arabic. Everybody spoke English. A few of us chose russian. It was a very easy decision, because I was always attracted to that country, mainly through its litterature and poetry.
My first course was русский язык для всех, but for several reasons I never finished that year. I stopped the course because my schedule was too much. But the love remained. Since then I have been studying on and off, collected more and more material, but never got past beginner.
What I really learned was the alphabet and the cursive, because I was taught by a (native by the way) teacher, and she paid a lot of attention to it. So that is one obstacle I don't have.
I love handwriting in russian, it's one of the pleasures of this language. I can't wait to read Pushkin in the original (ambitious, нет? )
There seems to be some real work going on here, so I'm in good company!
I have already started with русский язык для всех, the preliminary courses, and I will continue with that. I will also choose an audio course to practice conversation.
Following the same path for German, and saving some time for french, I ask myself where I will find all the hours!
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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4608 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek
| Message 14 of 51 06 January 2013 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
Bonne chance, renaissancemedi!
My knowledge of Russian is nil and it's not on my list for this year, but I'm starting to think it should be. Regardless,
I'll be following your log to lend support and to get inspiration for my French studies too.
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 15 of 51 07 January 2013 at 9:04am | IP Logged |
We'll support each other!
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 16 of 51 07 January 2013 at 9:40am | IP Logged |
Last night I stayed up to watch the Red Army Alexandrov Group on tv, on a concert they gave in Greece sometime ago. I focused on the words of the songs, and even got some of them! Very nice. Talk about a coincidence, as I decide to start russian again, to watch that on tv.
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