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| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 73 of 176 16 November 2014 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Please tell me what you think.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Ntjpstq7Pe Thank you. Edited by Sarnek on 16 November 2014 at 5:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 74 of 176 16 November 2014 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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You certainly have a much better pronunciation than me.
Do you have a recording where you speak freely? I find that my pronunciation deteriorates significantly from reading aloud to speaking freely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 75 of 176 17 November 2014 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't as of yet. I might do one someday though, that'd be a good idea.
Anyway, I think that what is really hard in "free" speech is to keep a good intonation/proody. Assimil helped me a lot in that regard, but still I've got lots of work to do. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 76 of 176 23 November 2014 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
Sorry I come to your post with a few weeks’ delay, but as you may have noticed I’m not often online lately. Anyway, if you’re looking for legal places where you can watch German TV from Italy I can suggest a couple: the ARD Mediathek and the ZDF Mediathek. In particular, here and here are the sections where you can watch TV-movies (at least a couple new ones every week). These are generally new or fairly recent productions: as with most network TV, budget constraints and middle-brow tastes mean that you won’t find anything super-cool here, but if your purpose is to watch TV in order to learn the language, these Mediathek work perfectly fine. Personally I prefer the ZDF Mediathek: the video quality is (slightly) better and you can always choose to use the subtitles for the movies if you want or need them. In the ARD/Das Erste Mediathek the subtitles are available only inconsistently. Occasionally some of the videos are geoblocked, but most can be viewed from abroad and in any given week I’ve always had more choice than I have had time to watch, so that’s not too bad. As far as podcasts are concerned, I suppose you already know the Learn German page on the Deutsche Welle website and its podcast page organized by CEFR levels. Here for instance are the courses and programmes at B1. Also, you can look at this podcast with pdf transcripts from the Goethe-Institut: Grüße aus Deutschland. I don’t think there’s an official CEFR level on it, but I believe that it should be at about A2/B1 level: anyway, you can judge for yourself if it’s worth your time. I hope this helps. EDIT: typos. Edited by Emme on 23 November 2014 at 11:54am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 77 of 176 30 November 2014 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I feel so dumb for not having found them earlier...
Thanks a bunch, Emme, your help is always very appreciated. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 78 of 176 02 December 2014 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Short update.
I'm starting to feel some progress in my listening skills in Swedish. I can now listen to Klartext understanding everything, with "just" about 10 to 20 uknown words each time. I'm also trying to avoid using subtitles for tv programmes, which has turned out to be fairly OK. I will start using FSI courses from now on. Those sentences might come in handy if I'll get to go Erasmus in Sweden next year. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 79 of 176 04 December 2014 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Jag vet att jag sa att jag skulle skriva här bara på svenska/tyska, men det tar väldigt lång att göra det. Alltså
det kommer inte att vara lika vanlig som jag planerade, men jag ska fortsätta ändå. Särskilt på svenska. Jag är inne i en konstigt fas där jag kan tillräckligt ord för att följa en bok eller en film men inte alla. Men problemet är att jag är för lat för att söka efter deras betydelse varje gång. Kanske måste jag hitta svårare material. I know I said that I would write only in Swedish/German here, but that takes a very long time to do. So it will not be as usual as I planned, but I will continue nonetheless. Especially in swedish. I'm in a weird phase where I know enough words to follow a book or a film, but not all of them. But the problem is that I'm too lazy to look up their meaning every time. I should probably find harder material. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4213 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 80 of 176 05 December 2014 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I asked for harder material and I got it: my University has a Scandiavian section which today was giving away books, and I got "Särskilda Uppdrag - Två fall för Fandorin" a
thriller by Boris Akunin. It's a translation from Russian, but it seems really well written. I've read a few pages, averaging a 10-15 unknown words per page. I'm setting it as my new goal to read 1 page a day. I might apply "Luca's Method" (Tranlating from L2 to L1 and back to L2 again after a few days), but that might take away a lot of time, so I probably won't apply it to every single page. Hej då! Edited by Sarnek on 05 December 2014 at 12:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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