Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 9 of 38 08 November 2014 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
My job.
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5535 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 10 of 38 08 November 2014 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
French: Keeping my spoken French sufficiently activated so that I can have intelligent adult conversations about any topic of interest at a moment's notice. I'm increasingly convinced that this is annoyingly difficult for somebody who lives outside the Francophony.
Egyptian: Assimil + Anki MCDs rocks, but making cards is a drag.
Spanish: No roadblocks at all. For now, it feels more like an Olympic luge.
Edited by emk on 08 November 2014 at 7:56pm
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Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4010 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 11 of 38 08 November 2014 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
Intermediate-level Blues! I am able to have fun with French now that I am in an intermediate level -- I can
read and watch film/TV viewers series (mostly with subtitles) and listen to news! However, seeing
improvement at this stage is so slow compared to beginning levels! In fact, getting to this level has
highlighted in many ways how steep the climb going forward is! it seems there is a lot of hours put in without
too much measurable progress! Too top it off, wanderlust is rearing its head, but I feel I need to get my
French level higher before starting another language.
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Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5249 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian
| Message 12 of 38 08 November 2014 at 10:40pm | IP Logged |
Mohave wrote:
Intermediate-level Blues! I am able to have fun with French now that
I am in an intermediate level -- I can
read and watch film/TV viewers series (mostly with subtitles) and listen to news!
However, seeing
improvement at this stage is so slow compared to beginning levels! In fact, getting
to this level has
highlighted in many ways how steep the climb going forward is! it seems there is a
lot of hours put in without
too much measurable progress! |
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This is pretty spot on! My passive skills in Russian have gotten to be quite good
(compared to when I arrived in Russia a couple months ago with just four previous
semesters under my belt) and now it's hard to see progress. Sometimes I'll read a
paragraph in a newspaper and feel great that I understood just about all of it and
then I'll miss a word, but then I am too lazy to look up the meaning of that
particular word.
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sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4639 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin
| Message 13 of 38 08 November 2014 at 10:50pm | IP Logged |
Motivation and intimidation.
I've really been wanting to learn Mandarin or Japanese for awhile now, but after reading about how long it's taken some people to get to a certain stage it just feels too daunting to undertake.
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Xenops Senior Member United States thexenops.deviantart Joined 3828 days ago 112 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese
| Message 14 of 38 09 November 2014 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
sillygoose1 wrote:
Motivation and intimidation.
I've really been wanting to learn Mandarin or Japanese for awhile now, but after reading about how long it's taken some people to get to a certain stage it just feels too daunting to undertake. |
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Well, you can be intimidated five years from now, or you can be five years closer to your goal in Mandarin or Japanese. :)
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cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6128 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish
| Message 15 of 38 09 November 2014 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
And some really do learn faster than others, and me I'm also massively distracted by work. Don't base your own expectations on what those of us slugging away for years experience.
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polyglossia Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5407 days ago 205 posts - 255 votes Speaks: French*
| Message 16 of 38 09 November 2014 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
looking for a translation of this : (thx)
دکتر : تو کشف کرده ای که برای چه می خواهی بچه دار شوی و موجود
زنده ای را به دنیا ، اضافه کنی ؟!
زن : به گمانم بله ! فلسفه ی هر ازدواجی تولیدمثل و بچه دار شدن است !
دکتر : تنها حقیقت راستین ، حقیقتی ست که خود ما کشفش کنیم ...
تو فلسفه ی وجودی یک انسان دیگر را با عقیده ی نیاکانت شناخته ای !
در صورتی که به هیچ عنوان هدف از ازدواج کردن ، ساختن یک موجود تازه
نیست !
و
همین طور لازمه ی هرنوع عشق ورزی و همخوابگی هم تولید مثل
نمی باشد ...
این می شود که عاقبت انسان ها از چسبیدن به خودشان و این چرخه ی تکراری خسته می شوند !
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