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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1065 of 1511 15 January 2014 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today was mostly Hebrew, yesterday was mostly job stuff (but managed some Korean on the
train). Maybe tomorrow I will be able to continue my march towards language fluency, in Hebrew! Not so much going on, in other words. I started the iTalki language challenge and I have plenty of classes and ideas planned. It will be good. Improvement is being made. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1066 of 1511 16 January 2014 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I planned to study, but nothing came of it and I ended up just working and doing
other things. Among these other things was a revelatory discovery - I mentioned in passing to someone that I used to write poetry years ago. I haven't written anything in years. Mostly because poetry is related to mood (and mine has to be dark to write) but also because my life changed for the better at that point. So I stopped, and I haven't written anything of note for years now. However, the mentioning made me trawl through the archives of my poetry document (which I found intact). I remembered the poetry I had written, but looking through it you are looking through a mirror which shows something or someone that should have been you, but is not you. So I read through them and constantly had the feeling of "was this me who wrote this? Did I do this?". But now for the linguistic aspect - the interesting part of my poetry is that, clearly, I must have had a deep-seated hatred against my native language at the time, because all of the things I wrote (with one or two exceptions) are written in English (although I used a few Latin quotations). I cannot cite the whole document to you (150 pages - I don't believe it myself) but I'll give you one poem I wrote that I liked: The Way I Die I watched the last eagle fly into the sky spread your wings, my friend, before you fall swerve around the cities before you hit the wall and just before you're taken down by their guns you'll scream: "please tell me this isn't the way I die" or you could be on the beach tanning in the sun maybe you'll even go for a swim in the sea tonight don't notice the tsunami they predicted for you don't start sprinting until the waves run you through you'll scream: "why does this have to be the way I die?" or maybe the bullets fly at you left and right clad in green you fight in some deserted dry plain with only hostility and burned down oil rigs to gain they'll shoot at you 'cause you don't fight in God's name make you scream: "don't let this be the way I die" and I hope you're not 90 sitting on an old bench stuck with diabetes arthritis and a filthy stench they'll feed you liquids but you don't taste the mess body too broken down to feel your children's caress only whispering: "might this be the way I die?" so when it's time for you to leave this rotten land I hope you'll think of the very last words I said maybe you'll have a fate beating some of the best but don't think you'll be laid gracefully to rest burning you'll howl "Why can't I decide the way I die?" 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 1067 of 1511 17 January 2014 at 4:07am | IP Logged | ||
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You haven't told me that there are 150 pages, hehe.
Speaking of poem, one can cry after that. Stunning. I don't have the actual hate towards my native language, but I wish I could use English that... somewhat artistically someday. Though I'm more of prose-writing person. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tarko Senior Member Korea, South Joined 4692 days ago 119 posts - 148 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, French | Message 1068 of 1511 17 January 2014 at 6:52am | IP Logged | ||
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That's a beautiful poem! I wish I could write poetry like that.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1069 of 1511 18 January 2014 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you!
Lately I have managed to get through quite a bit of Hebrew, and spoken fair amounts of Russian, and also read some Korean sentences - but fairly little else. I'm getting lazy : ( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1070 of 1511 19 January 2014 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I did the damnedest of things - I wrote an application letter in Russian. That is
the first time I did something like this, so I enlisted someone to help me correct my Russian, but I wrote it nonetheless. Anyways, the position I applied to is in Novosibirsk, so if I get that then Siberia it is! (And I prefer Siberia to Moscow so I'd be totally okay with that). Now time for some Hebrew. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1071 of 1511 20 January 2014 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Jag har nu också spelat in ett inlägg på svenska. Jag har blivit inspirerad av folk här
som studerar danska - vilket är rätt jobbigt för mig att förstå, särskilt eftersom jag är utlänning - men vad vet jag verkligen om det? I alla fall: http://vocaroo.com/i/s04NZQJ6dsKv 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1072 of 1511 22 January 2014 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
How on earth did you get to remember all the hebrew letters and how long did it take you? I mean to really, automatically recognize and use them. Sorry, I got a bit frustrated. I am starting with Hebrew and you seem to be the only other member studying it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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