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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 1385 of 1511 21 March 2015 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I have OpenOffice, but I might check anyways
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1386 of 1511 21 March 2015 at 7:11am | IP Logged | ||
I understood what you wanted to say, it just was not possible to use the word you used, and I could not come up with one which exactly covered the concept you intended. Good thing Ogrim came in to save the day :-) Your Italian sounds much like mine was in the beginning. I used all the Italian words I knew, and when something was missing I just used the Spanish term. My friend was super impressed, since from her standpoint (she does not speak Italian) it sounded like I literally walked off the airplane and started speaking fluent Italian on my first day. She heard no pauses, and I was understood. Of course I was perfectly well aware of this being more Spanish than Italian, but it took only three weeks before what I was speaking was actual Italian. I am sure you'll learn Italian in no time, and I doubt that your grammar is that bad :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 1387 of 1511 21 March 2015 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
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It's not that awful in terms of word order (since I can for the most part just copy
French). But in terms of verb conjugation... I've never seen a grammar table in my life for Italian! I just inferred from the context during the conversation what forms I should be using. And so it came to pass that I figured that a past tense must have a "v" in it somewhere, conditional and future tenses should probably sound like an infinitive (because they do in French), although I have no idea what the endings are, the subjunctive can just f**k off, the present tense... I got the rules after a while. Now I have to figure out essere and avere in the present tense and we're already going to be a good way towards good grammar because as long as I get the verb forms right (and don't screw up gender too badly) I'll be understood. My pronunciation is Italian enough and understandable. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 1388 of 1511 24 March 2015 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Doing very shitty atm, only just found a new house (couldn't stay at my host family).
It's cramped and has no laundry machine, but what do you do (it has wifi, but slow); work is terrible; I have no friends; got to get back on the Chinese bandwagon. Life is definitely getting in the way when you don't want to eat dinner. You would prefer to cry, but you can't get tears to flow. I thought I could handle adversity better than this. We shall see. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1389 of 1511 24 March 2015 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Get a place to live which you are happy with. Crummy living conditions can seriously hamper your studies
and your sanity. And see if you can find some expats. When you feel you are grounded again, resume your Chinese studies. Languages are secondary to happiness. I almost went up the wall after my first 24 hours in Kiev. Crazy landlady, creepy landlord sleeping practically in my room, noise, heat, sofa from the 1940ies which I could not sleep on, awful food, worse plumbing. Find something better. In the meantime we are here for you. Keep us posted. Try to focus on the calm and flowers in my garden, my big smile, and your and my friends who talked and laughed and ate and drank raspberry vodka. Picture your friends at home, and your family. And write down somewhere, exactly how shitty you feel right now, it will make you laugh later. Huge hug from Cristina 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 1390 of 1511 24 March 2015 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are no expats in this town except the 2 that are studying Chinese full-time. This
town is only Chinese people. Well the problem was I needed a roof pronto. This room is a lot better than the previous one I checked out. The lack of a laundry machine is annoying, but that's something I can deal with... tomorrow I have a day off and can find nearby resources. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 1391 of 1511 28 March 2015 at 6:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I am planning to record a sound clip (no video, I doubt the Chinese connections can
take the upload time) speaking in all the languages I've learned sometime soon (hopefully including the rarer and weaker ones, and also the new ones such as Greek and Chinese). I will at least use some Breton in it (for the first time since forever that I have used that in any capacity), and hopefully also Icelandic and Korean. The others should pose less of a problem. You will be able to hear my Norwegian as well, but don't be afraid if you can't tell the difference between that and Swedish - my Norwegian relies heavily on my Swedish. I won't speak Afrikaans because that is purely based on Dutch and I have never activated any Afrikaans - I can read it purely because I am Dutch. Also be prepared to listen to longer sections for Russian and French and languages like that. Edited by tarvos on 28 March 2015 at 6:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 1392 of 1511 29 March 2015 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Multilingual extravaganza
A multilingual extravaganza. Have fun picking out my languages and shitty accents and mistakes in all of them :D There are quite a few and some of them are pretty bad. I think my Norwegian probably just is Swedish lite, so please excuse any horrible things you may hear :D Also I am aware the recording quality is horrible and that it's improv, so a lot of hesistations. Edited by tarvos on 29 March 2015 at 2:35pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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