tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4663 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 1 of 66 29 December 2013 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to my TAC 2014 log! After this little introduction about my current level and
goals in my two target languages (French and Spanish), I am going to attempt to write
all future posts in those languages (this will be quite hard for Spanish at first,
haha).
Spanish
I am a beginner in Spanish. I had classes for three years in high school and then did
nothing with the language for eleven years. Though I retained some comprehension
(probably helped out a bit from French), my active abilities pretty much vanished.
Here are the resources I plan to use:
Jim%C3%A9nez/dp/2253084336">Espagnol Débutant
Course/dp/0764103334">Spanish for Reading
Destinos
Daily conversations on Verbling and Skype
I am pretty sure I will work through Assimil's Perfectionnement Espagnol after I finish
with Espagnol Débutant. I have already started using Verbling daily in an attempt to
reactivate the basic Spanish I had in high school.
Goals for Spanish:
Converse daily
Complete all of the courses listed above
Hopefully get to a solid B1 or higher in all aspects of the language by the end of 2014
Write in Spanish here consistently
French
I would rate my current level in French as high intermediate. I can read newspapers no
problem, understand movies well enough to enjoy them and sometimes even close to 100%
with easier ones, and have no problem with most radio broadcasts. I can usually
interact with relative ease with native speakers but still have difficulties if I have
to describe a complex idea or situation. I also have trouble reading long-form fiction
-- too much unknown vocabulary.
For French my goals are much hazier. Right now I plan to keep doing what I'm doing,
listening to one or two hours of radio per day, conversing several times per week on
Verbling and Skype, and writing in French here. I also intend to put a higher focus on
reading fiction, as that is certainly my weaker area in terms of comprehension.
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Okay, best of luck to my fellow members of teams Triomphe and Lobo. :-)
Let's get to it!
Edited by tastyonions on 27 May 2014 at 1:14pm
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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 2 of 66 29 December 2013 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
Best of luck to you as well :)
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 66 29 December 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
Good luck, and may 2014 be as awesome as 2013!
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 4 of 66 29 December 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
¡Buena suerte con sus estudios en español y francés!
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 5 of 66 29 December 2013 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
Good luck! I'm learning Spanish this year too so I'll be following :).
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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 6 of 66 30 December 2013 at 9:23pm | IP Logged |
As a fellow Lobo, I’m looking forward to following your progress with Spanish (and, why not, French too!)
Have a great TAC’14! ¡Buena suerte!
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tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4663 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 7 of 66 31 December 2013 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
[Español] Gracias a todos!
Hoy fue un día excelente de español. Hice una lección de Espagnol Débutant (7) y acabo de hablar (escribir por Skype) tres horas con una mujer de Argentina -- una "porteña", como ella dijo. Hablabamos de películas y de libros y de nuestros estudios de idiomas también. Me recomendó una peli, "El secrete de sus ojos." Voy a buscarla ahora. :-)
Edited by tastyonions on 31 December 2013 at 4:56am
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agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4633 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian
| Message 8 of 66 31 December 2013 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
Tous mes meilleurs vœux pour le TAC2014! Et bon réveillon !
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