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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 225 of 228 30 December 2011 at 2:03am | IP Logged | |||||
Slightly off-topic comment: I hope I am not becoming a language snob, but when I went to IKEA and heard people pronouncing "SMÅLAND as "SMALL LAND" it really bothered me. This should not be a big deal to me; I know that Swedish isn't widely spoken in Washington State and Småland is actually the name of a region in Sweden as well as the name of IKEA's children's play area and that since "små" does mean "small" this isn't technically a mistake. Unfortunately I also know that the letter "Å" would not be a really difficult sound for English speakers to make if they ever heard the word "småland" pronounced properly. Edited by mick33 on 30 December 2011 at 11:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 226 of 228 30 December 2011 at 10:57am | IP Logged | |||||
Edited by mick33 on 30 December 2011 at 11:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 227 of 228 30 December 2011 at 11:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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¡Ay de mi! He olvidado más palabras del idioma español, ojála que recuerde algunas estructuras gramáticas. Escuché el radio sino entender pequeño.
As I suspected, my Spanish has declined considerably. Hmmm.... Maybe I really do prefer Germanic languages or I am just too lazy to focus on reviving and improving my skills in Spanish. Oh well, at least I haven't forgotten everything I knew. Buenas noches Mick 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 228 of 228 01 January 2012 at 12:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am prepearing to go out dancing tonight so this hopefully this will be a brief message.
This last year was a good year for learning languages, even if none of my target languages can challenge English as the dominant language I use for thoughts and communication. The 6 Week Challenges with Sprachprofi's Twitter bot were fun and I got an idea of how much time I actually spend in the beginning stages of learning a language. I did frequently give in to wanderlust, by which I mean I dabbled with quite a few languages to find out if I wanted actually learn them or not. I have definitely decided that wanderlust is a very good thing, somewhat like test driving cars or trying on clothing in a store so that I can hopefully make an informed choice in the future. I will admit that, due to laziness and my near-constant desire to learn Swedish and nothing else, my Spanish and Afrikaans skills have definitely declined. A year ago I though I had attained almost mid-intermediate level in writing and low-intermediate comprehension in listening in reading for both languages, but I am now certain that I am not at that level now and my speaking was never good for either language. My Swedish was probably at mid-beginner level in writing and listening comprehension a year ago and I hope I have improved to low-intermediate (see link above) but my reading and speaking levels are nowhere what I call low-intermediate. My Finnish has never moved past the mid-beginner level in writing, speaking, listening, or reading. Italian is at low-beginner level for every skill I try to assess but the similarities with Spanish help a little with reading and listening. I have just begun Thai, so I admit to knowing almost nothing at this point. I know that self-assessment is very imperfect for many reasons, thus it is quite likely that my skills in every language are worse than I think but I still think self-assessment can give me some ideas about what I can learn on my own and what I still need to learn. Since I have joined two TAC teams, I decided to start a new log for 2012 and end this one. I hope everyone who has read this log had a good year and I wish you all a Happy New Year! hasta la vista hej då näkemiin ciao totsiens Mick 1 person has voted this message useful |
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