Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 337 of 464 07 June 2014 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
Пей до дна, товарищи! :Д
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milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4332 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language
| Message 338 of 464 07 June 2014 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
Welcome back!
I'm a non-drinker, in Russia. Go figure. And I just brought back 3 bottles of Georgian
wine (none of them for me).
I'm hoping that June will be better. The past few weeks have been utter chaos with the
training course I was doing. I'm still not done my assignments, so that will be completed
tonight, I hope.
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chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5190 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish
| Message 339 of 464 07 June 2014 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
I'm pleased to see things getting back to normal again in this thread.
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Lassus Hexaglot (formerly Josquin) Senior Member Germany Joined 3848 days ago 36 posts - 67 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Italian, Swedish, Latin Studies: Russian, Irish, Japanese
| Message 340 of 464 07 June 2014 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
Thanks, guys!
I think we should forget about this little incident now and move on. I hope everybody is doing well with their language studies. As it is already June, we could maybe each make a short report on what we're doing. This especially concerns the less active members of this team.
So, are you still studying Russian? Please report in!
I'll start: I'm still working on Colloquial Russian 2 and I finally started working with native materials. I have several Russian short stories at home, either bilingual or annotated. Also, I started working with the transcripts of the Russian TV series Кухня, which leosmith kindly provided. Last but not least, my new flatmate is fluent in Russian, so I get to practise in real life from time to time.
What are you all up to?
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 341 of 464 08 June 2014 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
I have a new Russian teacher on Italki! I'll be having weekly lessons with her. And since I'm doing the Italki World Cup Challenge, I'm also having lessons with other teachers. Both my new teachers are great!
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Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian
| Message 342 of 464 08 June 2014 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
I'm doing some Assimil lessons and I'm listening to pimsleur on my way to work and
right before I sleep.
I finally understood case system and I don't feel like sentences are from outter earth
anymore.
Cyrillic is almost like roman now.
I know some people would be angry but I found russian pronunciation easier than
english, because it is much more predictable. So is not that difficult...
Well... I really love this language. When I'm done with french, I'll put all efforts on
russian. Such a beautiful language!
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 343 of 464 08 June 2014 at 9:26am | IP Logged |
Great idea, Lassus!
I am taking Russian lessons every week, and try to speak as much as possible, I have just found a lovely new Russian conversation partner, I watch films and read Agatha Christie in Russian for the Super Challenge,I listened to Pimsleur and Assimil in Russian for the 6 week challenge, I occasionally listen to Russian music, and I will be going to Ukraine for another Russian course in August, so all in all I am pretty satisfied with my efforts and progress:-)
When I was in London I bought another half meter of Russian material, so I should have enough to keep me going for the next couple of years.
Right now I am listening to Pimsleur Ukrainian and am trying to get heads and tails of the differences and similarities between the two languages.
I am really happy that I once upon a time learned a little Polish, because that really helps me in understanding Ukrainian. I have no ambitions there, I only aim for a little passive understanding at the moment, because I am terrified that it will interfere with my Russian. Right now I do not think my Russian is in danger though, it pops into my head every time I try to speak anything but Spanish, French or English. Those three languages still seem safe, but when I try to formulate something in German or Italian (not to mention when I try to say something in Polish or Ukrainian), Russian comes jumping out and assert itself:-)
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Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian
| Message 344 of 464 08 June 2014 at 10:42am | IP Logged |
Solfrid,
Sometimes russian words pop up in my head while I'm speaking portuguese.
Now that's weird!
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