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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 89 of 137 29 April 2013 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I signed up for the 6 Week Challenge with Indonesian.
There's an Indonesian speaking competition in Berlin in June and I'm tempted to give it a try - even though I spent less than 10 hours on Indonesian so far. I wonder how good of a speech I could give if I put a lot into Indonesian during this challenge. Not aiming to win - just for fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 90 of 137 29 April 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
What a nice objective! Go for it! _____________ Unfortunately, partner, I won't be doing the challenge as I have been having almost no time for study for a few weeks now. Still, I try to do a bit of German and Romanian (Assimil active wave lesson 75) daily, however little. ***Awesome German App Alert!!!!*** Geo.de has a new iPad app (app is free, comes with a free magazine, but new magazines are 5 or 6 dollars) -- the app is beautiful, well-built, and several articles are recorded and can be listened to as you read the text. There are also some videos. Edited by Arekkusu on 29 April 2013 at 9:08pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 91 of 137 30 April 2013 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Romanian Podcast
I would like to recommend this Romanian podcast Sceptici în România. You can listen online, or through iTunes. To slow down audio on iOS, use Tempo. Edited by Arekkusu on 30 April 2013 at 2:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 92 of 137 12 May 2013 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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My Indonesian studies have been coming along reasonably well - 12 hours since
May 1st, which translates to exactly 1 hour a day, though the actual distribution was different. I wish I could have done more though, because I will probably not have much time to study in Hungary, and anyway I need all the time I can get in order to prepare for this competition. As an exercise, I wrote a first text in Indonesian on lang-8: http://is.gd/yxtjOi Due to the need to write my thesis, I've actually spent 19 hours on French this month already, mostly writing, but also listening (to the director's commentary) and watching a movie (the one I'm writing about). Also, I finished another Spanish book, by necessity: Book 15: La oralidad fingida: descripción y traducción This is a collection of essays which my professor recommended to me as relevant to my thesis. Good thing I had brushed up on Spanish... Sometimes I wonder if a student of French Studies in the US would also be assigned reading material in Spanish without a question whether he speaks the language. Then again, I can cite any Romance or Germanic language without translation, so it works both ways. Edited by Sprachprofi on 12 May 2013 at 6:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 93 of 137 15 May 2013 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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My turn to update:
Still slowly working on Romanian, listening to podcasts (Sceptici în România), reading some websites (such as go4it.ro), a trilingual version of L'étranger (Strainul / der Fremde), etc. Had a one-hour German conversation with my Tandem partner over the weekend, am reading various books and magazines (Hohe Luft, Geo, etc.) Trying to find some time to continue working on writing a book on pronunciation... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 94 of 137 15 May 2013 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I had my first conversation in Indonesian! More than 60 minutes via Skype with an
Indonesian teacher, who was very good about speaking Indonesian as much as possible. At the beginning I had trouble understanding spoken Indonesian because my brain was still used to processing written Indonesian, but by the end I was able to easily follow when he talked about his family and his work. I also spoke a lot myself: about my family, language-learning, restaurants in Berlin, immigrating to Germany, traveling and other topics. I was quite amazed at the kind of things I was already able to express, both in terms of vocabulary (I crammed about 500 words so far, plus whatever I may have picked up on the side) and in terms of structures, talking about the past, the future and using various types of sub-clauses. I also realized again the value of being able to come up with alternative ways of phrasing things. For example, my teacher wanted to know if I knew the difference between "kami" and "kita" (exclusive and inclusive 'we'). My first thought was to say "kita includes you", but I didn't know the word "include" and settled for "kita is kami and you". I'm presently on lesson 7 of Colloquial Indonesian. Edited by Sprachprofi on 15 May 2013 at 4:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 95 of 137 22 May 2013 at 9:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I just came back from the Polyglot Conference in Budapest. It was an amazing experience,
not just because I got to meet so many of the people whose posts I read, but also because I practised nearly all my languages (Swahili being the only exception). I have decided to organize a polyglot gathering myself, next year in Berlin. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 96 of 137 22 May 2013 at 10:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still bummed out I had to skip the conference, I had to work. Turns out I actually
didn't have to after all, which annoyed me to no end (the only consolation being I could spend time with my girlfriend). I hope you have had a great time in Budapest! I would have loved to meet some of the big names in polyglottery, especially Iversen, Benny Lewis, Richard, Luca, Alex Rawlings, Susanna... And if you are going to organise a gathering in Berlin next year, will it have a "polyglot" or an "Esperanto" focus? By that time I hope to have a normal full-time job and no side-stuff, so if it's on a weekend I will be able to fly (or take the train) to Berlin and finally get to one of those conferences! Also, are there any big Esperanto events coming up? I think it would be cool to involve myself in the Esperanto community at some point but I don't know when the next one is. With New Year's maybe? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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