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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 121 of 137 26 August 2013 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Had a Dutch lesson yesterday, only to realize that I've let the language slide way too
long: I can recognize having learned words and I understand them, but they don't actively come to my mind anymore or take very long to do so. It's annoying, but on the bright side it should only take several hours of Dutch conversations in order to re- activate most of what I had learned. Also, yesterday I finished a Chinese book that I had been reading for ages (my Chinese reading speed is abysmal): Book 23: "自杀" by Edouard Levé. This is a Chinese translation of the book "Suicide", but I didn't know that when I bought it. The language is quite easy, talking about every day life for the most part, so that this was an easy if slow read. 1 person has 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 122 of 137 26 August 2013 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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You will be fine within hours of practice. It didn't sound bad to me at all.
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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 123 of 137 03 September 2013 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Tadoku has been very good for me; within 2 weeks I read 213 pages in my weakest
reading languages: 72 pages of Greek and 141 pages of Chinese. It's unprecedented for me to read so much in Chinese in this time frame because I tend to take 4-5 minutes a page and quickly lose interest, but somehow the Tadoku really motivated me this time. 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 124 of 137 20 September 2013 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been negligent about reading as my days got very hectic. Yesterday I re-read a book
Arekkusu gave me: Book 24: "Les voisins" by Claude Meunier and Louis Saia. 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 125 of 137 20 September 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
Pis, c'tait-tu bon? :) 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 126 of 137 21 September 2013 at 5:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Oui, j'aime le dialect québécois. Le livre a l'air d'un de Ionesco.
You haven't updated in a while. What have you been up to, language-wise? 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 127 of 137 21 September 2013 at 6:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't updated in a while because I've had very little time for languages, and most of my free time has
been devoted to preparing for interpretation contracts and working on another significant personal project :) Although these activities don't constitute learning languages per se, they are definitely language related! I continue, however, to read German here and there online, write emails, and watch the occasional online video. As for Estonian, I don't know if I'm going to continue, but I would like to point other learners to a nice resource called Keeleklikk. It's a free online Estonian course offered by the government. 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 128 of 137 02 October 2013 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just got back from a trip to Britain and Greece. Greece was fun, but I was at a
conference all the time and didn't have many occasions to speak Greek. I spoke a bit of Dutch, French and Italian with the other participants, and a bit of Greek with the hotel staff, but that's it, and now I'm ca. 20 hours behind my plan for the year... I did read two books while in Britain: Book 25: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein - possibly the best science fiction book I've read. Book 26: "Il profeta" by Khalil Gibran, in a bilingual edition. I can see where all the quotes come from that are circulating on the internet, but I think the book itself is over-hyped. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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