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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 697 of 1511 08 May 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
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3 in the masculine form is שלושה.
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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 698 of 1511 08 May 2013 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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They differ, but it can be anywhere from one page to 5 or 6. About the length of an
Assimil lesson, with more grammar exercises and no bilingual translations to aid the poor sod who has taken it upon him to learn these words. I keep screwing up masc/feminine numbers, that will take some effort. I guess I will have to do it in the review lesson :) 1 person has 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 699 of 1511 09 May 2013 at 7:51am | IP Logged |
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Wow, you really are active, and making fantastic progress in both Romanian and Hebrew. Great!
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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 700 of 1511 09 May 2013 at 9:03am | IP Logged |
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Hahaha, tack. Vi saknar dig här på HTLAL!
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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 701 of 1511 12 May 2013 at 1:17pm | IP Logged |
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Due to more fun things than language learning (<333), I have only taken mild advantage of
Ascension Day and the free Friday that followed. But I have managed: - completed the review exercises for Unit 4 of the Routledge. 35 more units to go. - Read about 200 pages of Spieltrieb, and was pleasantly amused at the Dream Theater namedrop - Studied two more lessons of Le Roumain - written messages in Russian and French - done Romanian and Icelandic Anki review. 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 702 of 1511 15 May 2013 at 8:38am | IP Logged |
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My activity seems to have dropped a little. (And no, I am not displeased about that; I have perfectly good reasons to cut down on language learning a bit).
But I have completed an hour of spoken Hebrew (mixed in with a little English). I've also completed lesson 48-50 of le Roumain, and that means I have passed a milestone; my Romanian has moved into the active wave now. I've also completed until lesson 21 of l'Hébreu, and spent some time on Russian. But today I would like to remind myself of why I find English so much fun even after all these years. English is by any and all standards the first foreign language I ever learned, it's the one I know the best, the one which I could speak should the world close in on itself, explode, and leave nothing but dust, volcanoes and ash strewn like black pockmarks all over a barren world. The reason is that most of my entertainment, most of my life, most of my love, my brain, my everything has been, is, and will be channelled through English. Almost all of my music that I've ever loved is Anglophone. All the video games. All the books. Dinosaurs, fiction, everything. Romance. Love. Even after 20 years of proficiency in the English language (yes, I went to a Canadian kindergarten and I have been able to read English from the same age as I was able to read Dutch), this language is still fun and important. "This is the only kind of love as I understand it that there really is". "I give you thanks for receiving, it's my privilege". And I recommend everyone who asks themselves "how can I get better at any foreign language" to do the following; don't give yourself a choice. I have never had one. There was no question of "you should learn English for your job" or "you want to listen to English music". You are putting the horse before the cart. I never wanted to learn English explicitly, I just did. And even though I now know more languages (and was introduced to French quite early), English is still the biggest success story of my life. 4 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 703 of 1511 16 May 2013 at 3:38pm | IP Logged |
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Românește
Am ajuns la doilea val din Assimil, și sunt foarte fericit. Am făcut plini de conversație cu prietenă din Transilvania, care mai vorbește Germană, ingleză și ungurește. Atunci sunt content cu nivea mea in acest moment, dar o să vedem cum să fie nivea mea în futur. עברית גם למדתי עברית. 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 704 of 1511 21 May 2013 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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Owing to a pressing need to attend to my personal life (read: I spent time with my
girlfriend), not much study was completed, not even today on Whitsun, because of band practice and me being home late. However, I have been using the tram rides to get through regular Anki Reviews (100 cards or so are perfect for 15-minute rides!) However, since Wednesday, I have completed the following: - One lesson of L'Hébreu sans Peine (I am now at lesson 27 I think) - Two lessons of the Routledge Course (I have completed up until lesson 57, unit 5) - the entirety of Unit 2 of Colloquial Icelandic - a lot of lessons of le Roumain sans peine, lesson 54 active wave/5 passive wave being completed today. But I went to the Rotterdam zoo yesterday with my girlfriend, and I stumbled upon a hut in the aviary of Blijdorp Zoo (so my guess is that this will please Iversen to no end), there is an overview of trekking routes of Siberian birds in Russian. The below picture indicates the species and routes of migratory birds in Russian (there isn't actually any Dutch translation). Furthermore, within that hut, all the signs for observable birds are indicated in Cyrillic (for Russian of course) with Dutch subtitles. In the rest of the zoo, English explanations exist side-by-side with the Dutch, and names are also translated into Latin and German for the reader's convenience, but this constitutes a major exception. I took a picture of the main affiche for all to see. 
Also, on Tuesday I visited the Aquarium called Sea Life in Scheveningen (the beach area of the Hague) and there all explanations were viewable in Dutch, English and German (traditionally a Dutch person's best language, with the exception of Frisians). Furthermore, I have found out that not all Frisians are thát bilingual when they speak Dutch, and also that not all native Frisians speak Frisian, but a Dutch dialect influenced by the Frisian. (Source: Frisians). In Harlingen (a seaside coastal town in Frisia), the Harlingers that is spoken is (in the venerable Dutch tradition) a local dialect. Whereas in Brabant and Limbourg the influences vary to differing extents (Limbourg for example has a strong German substratum and influence, and Brabantian dialects seamlessly transition into Belgian Brabantian dialects), this dialect is influenced by the Frisian. They also have the situation described earlier where Harlingers is used with family and inside town people, but a watered down version (Standard Dutch with some modified vocabulary and the local accent) is spoken to outsiders (i.e. me). You can tell a Frisian accent a mile away, though. One telltale sign that you are dealing with a typical Frisian in Dutch is that their l is always hard like in Russian. A regular Dutch L is softer. (There are some other telltale giveaways, but it depends on the speaker; is the speaker a native speaker of Frisian, or did they grow up speaking Dutch? Which part of Frisia are they from? etc. etc.) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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