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| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5532 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes  Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 33 of 38 20 November 2014 at 4:31am | IP Logged | |||||
I feel ya. That's seriously debilitating. I moved from Estonia to Canada and I get twice slower internet for four times the price. And they have data caps here! I was like oh come on, is this XXI century or is it not? Had to purchase unlimited option just to be on the safe side. I need my daily internet! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4904 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 34 of 38 20 November 2014 at 8:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Health has been certainly an issue for me this year and also limited time since I started an advanced training for my work in August (though this actually added time for my English, but took away time from my other TLs).
The funny thing about this is that now my biggest roadblock in Welsh is English. I'm working through the superb Say something in Welsh course. It's the first completely audio course I've ever taken and I really love it! I wish I had discovered audio courses earlier on in my life and I would find ones like that for my other TLs as well, but now in lesson 6.3 of the old course (= end of the starting lessons) I'm hitting a wall. The course works the following way: each lesson you are taught some words and/or grammatical constructions in Welsh, the teacher gives you a word or a sentence in English then there is a pause in which you shall say it in Welsh (=speak it out loud) and after that it is repeated twice in Welsh, once by a female speaker, once by a male speaker (and you are encouraged to repeat it together with them). Now here's my problem: my brain blocks out English! I mean, I know the teacher speaks English, I can hear the melody and the rhythm as being English, gosh I can even identify the accent to be an English one! It's just that his words don't make it into my mind, it's only, well, noise. What he says in English seems to carry no meaning! Argh! It really makes me mad! I'm sure I'll overcome this problem but it bothers me nonetheless. On the other hand, sometimes when I watch Pobol y Cwm (Welsh soap opera) I think I have miraculously cracked the Welsh code only to discover a moment later that they were speaking a few words/sentences in English... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6039 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 35 of 38 22 November 2014 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's pretty common with welsh programs I watch Rugby on S4C and the presenters switch between languages on a regular basis. If you like dramas there's Y Gwyll otherwise called Hinterland which has both Welsh and English versions. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4904 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 36 of 38 24 November 2014 at 8:46am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for this recommendation. I had a quick look on Wikipedia and Y Gwyll sounds exactly like the kind of drama I like to watch though I think at my level it will be quite challenging. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4872 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 37 of 38 26 November 2014 at 1:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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German - speaking/writing. I still can't speak as fluently as I want to, or have it
come naturally when writing. English - pronunciation and accent. I still have a very distinct accent, although my pronunciation has been slightly improving over the last few years (bascially, since I started studying in the UK) Japanese - My listening skills are still too bad to actually enjoy Japanese media. Spanish - Can't get into listening; I was hoping that would be as easy as it was in German, but apparently it's not... (especially penninsular Spanish...) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| epictetus Groupie Canada Joined 3881 days ago 54 posts - 87 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 38 of 38 26 November 2014 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Time. I have all the right resources, the right motivation, and an immersion experience
coming up and I have no time to give to it. I had expected to put in many hours at work, but it seems that was a short-lived opportunity. Thankfully this is a temporary situation and I should be freed in a few weeks. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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