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| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5406 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 89 of 108 18 November 2013 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have a love-hate relationship with Mandarin. This is the first language I tried to learn and everytime I come back to it, it seems to defeat me so easily...So my advice would be a mix of "Sure, go for it !" and "get out while you still can" ;-)
How are your Greek studies going ? I finished MT Greek recently and found it great. The students aren't as dumb as in the other courses and the teacher places great empahsis an getting pronounciation right. I'm now trying to find a radio with lots of talk, call-in shows but can't find one. Every Greek radio (even the ones labeled "talk") seems to broadcast more music than anything else. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 90 of 108 19 November 2013 at 8:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Try this station
tovima radio It has music of course, but it's mainly talking, and it's a news channel. So you'll learn the news as well! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5406 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 91 of 108 26 November 2013 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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That's exactly what I was looking for, many thanks !
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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 92 of 108 26 November 2013 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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In addition, these stations were recommended to me: ΣΚΑΙ 100.3, ΝΕΤ 105.8 & ΒΗΜΑ 99.5.
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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 93 of 108 20 December 2013 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Excruciatingly slowly, akkadboy. I have really missed the mark in terms of my language goals for 2014. I'm glad to see that you are also studying Greek. Will you join a team for TAC 2014 with Greek? I also really liked MT. When you're done that, I recommend Language Transfer as it goes a bit farther. I think I made it to A2 in Greek, but barely. Considering how long I've been studying, I should be much farther along. I had to take a few breaks along the way (most of September and October) and I found I had to relearn a lot of the material I had studied before. My professional life was turned upside down this year. Instead of spending time studying, I was putting out fires. And things are still not sorted with my job. Hopefully by spring. I will provide an inventory of my studies soon. I thank everyone who has provided support for my Greek studies along the way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 94 of 108 31 December 2013 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Michel Thomas: Completed the Advanced course. Language Transfer: Completed all three levels Assimil: Got to lesson 58. Ellinika A: Lesson 12 Spoken World Greek: Lesson 6. Lessons via Skype: approx. 40 hours. I have definitely noticed progress here. At first I was only able to have a conversation for maybe 5-10 minutes in Greek. At my best, I think I went 40-50 minutes with only asking for the odd translation. Only an hour or two of conversation exchanges. I started using Flashcard programs for the first time (Anki, Memrise and Quizlet). I do find them useful, but unfortunately I can't seem to get into the habit of doing them everyday as I should. Studying in fits and starts is not the best method for me as my memory is just not good enough to retain much after a long break, and I've had too many long breaks this year Nevertheless, I will make Greek my main language of study for TAC 2014. Spanish I put more work into Spanish this year than I expected to. Maybe because my Spanish was a lot rustier than I thought. Lessons via Skype: approx. 7 hours. I've been taking one-on-one lessons via Skype which has been helpful in identifying my weaknesses and working on those. I'm not sure if I'll continue with the same teacher in 2014. She's from Spain and I find I'm not as at ease speaking with her as I would be with Latin Americans. I tend to overthink my word choices, worried that they're "too Latin America." I once let out "Orale, que padre!" to express my amazement with something and it just got me blank stares. I know I should just relax and let it flow without worrying about such things. I've also found this teacher has told me some things I've said were wrong when they didn't feel wrong to me at all. I'd later look it up and find that what I said was correct, just not used in Spain. I took a couple of Verbling classes but didn't find those terribly useful. There are too many people in the classes. I've done a few hours of conversation exchanges. conversationexchange.com is the most useful site for those, I have found. I regularly read news sites in Spanish and didn't keep track of pages read or time spent on that. I also watched a few documentaries in Spanish. Overall, this year -- well, mainly the last couple of months -- has meant much more active use of the language than I've had in a while. Catalan Lessons via Skype: 1/2 hour. Pons Catalan: 2 lessons A fascinating language. Maybe I'll revisit when I've made sufficient progress with my Spanish and French. French Lessons via Skype: approx. 4 hours. Verbling's French classes are not in high demand so they're a bit more useful. I've only taken one, and may continue. I've been reading French more often lately and making an effort to listen to French- language radio (Radio-Canada). It's been a good time for my French. I've had much more exposure this year than I've had for a long time. Italian I've taken several Verbling classes. Again, these classes aren't crowded so they are useful for the price. I'd like to throw myself into this language which I once studied way back in high school. Realistically I think I will just dabble in it here and there. As for other languages I thought I might tackle, Dutch and Swahili were pretty much ignored this year. I bought Spoken World Swahili and Assimil Dutch and listened to the first lesson or so but didn't do anything beyond that. Edited by embici on 08 January 2014 at 2:03pm 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 95 of 108 31 December 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck in 2014, and thanks for being my teammate in 2013 - I am happy you had more success than I did
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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 96 of 108 08 January 2014 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you very much, Cristina, and good luck to you.
Really, your Russian progress is indeed something to brag about. It's inspiring! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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