JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4102 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 89 of 319 31 December 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
dbag wrote:
JIK wrote:
Stelle, dbag, and James29: I've been following all three of your progress
quite a bit over the past year or
so. Any plans to upload a youtube video or anything of yourself/yourselves speaking Spanish? It would be
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Maybe later in the year, but I'm a bit shy for that! I think if I could dramatically improve my accent, I
would definitely do it. In fact that could be something to work towards?
Actually I think that Stelle has some videos of her speaking, and last time I watched one, which was
months ago, I was very impressed, especially given the small length of time she had been learning.
BTW are you native Estonian or just living there? I was in Talinn only a few weeks back, nice place.
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Best of luck with it! I tend to be the same way about videos. I did see Stelle's a few months ago, which
were impressive for sure, but I haven't seen any new ones in a while!
How did you like Tallinn?? It's not really a place most people think to visit! Yeah, I'm Estonian. Well, I'm
ethnically half-American and half-Estonian, but I grew up in Estonia (though I now live in the States
again...chaos).
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 90 of 319 31 December 2013 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
It's a really pretty place! I didn't really have enough time to get out of the old town though, which is a little touristy for me. I think if I had the chance to go back I would check out Tartu, or another small town.
From Estonia I took buses through Latvia, Lithuania and Poland which are all worth seeing. Although I find that visiting countries where I don't speak the language really makes me value learning Spanish- It just enables me to have a much richer experience and gives me access to at least 20 countries!
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JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4102 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 91 of 319 31 December 2013 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
dbag wrote:
It's a really pretty place! I didn't really have enough time to get out of the old town
though, which is a little touristy for me. I think if I had the chance to go back I would check out Tartu, or
another small town.
From Estonia I took buses through Latvia, Lithuania and Poland which are all worth seeing. Although I find
that visiting countries where I don't speak the language really makes me value learning Spanish- It just
enables me to have a much richer experience and gives me access to at least 20 countries! |
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Thanks! That sounds like quite the trip. If you ever get a chance to go back to Estonia, I would definitely
recommend Tartu. The rest of Tallinn really isn't particularly interesting (unless you're interested in Soviet
history, in which case you might enjoy it). Tartu would be great for sure, and if you want a smaller town, I
would recommend Viljandi. I think it's probably the nicest town in Estonia.
I definitely agree with the Spanish thing... It's much more useful than Estonian haha. You can't even get
by in certain parts of Estonia with Estonian... much less anywhere outside of the country :D
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5375 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 92 of 319 31 December 2013 at 10:17pm | IP Logged |
I'd never be able to figure out how to work a video camera... posting a video would be impossible.
Edited to correct a spelling error caused by my Spanish!
Edited by James29 on 31 December 2013 at 10:17pm
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suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4602 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 93 of 319 01 January 2014 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
Like JIK I too would like to know if you still accept new members. I expressed my interest to join a Spanish team in the general 2014 TAC sign-up post and forgot to comment on the team thread after it was created.
Thanks a lot!
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 94 of 319 01 January 2014 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
I am keeping the same log I have always had, but can't see how to change the title to include the team name?
Anyway, you can read the first page here
You will have to scroll down to the last post on that page. Sorry about the length, but I have decided to forgo the festivities and spend the evening with HTAL and a cold beer!
Here's to the New Year!
Edited by dbag on 01 January 2014 at 12:45am
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suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4602 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 95 of 319 01 January 2014 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
dbag wrote:
I am keeping the same log I have always had, but can't see how to change the title to include the team name? |
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You have to edit the very first post of your log, just click the edit button and you will be given the chance to change the thread title :)
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 96 of 319 01 January 2014 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
Sorted! Thanks!
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