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| jacob1 Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 3985 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English Studies: French | Message 1 of 5 31 December 2013 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
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Hey everybody,
Glad to meet you all! My name is Jacob, and I'm from Tel Aviv, Israel. I'm 33 and I speak fluent English & Hebrew. In the last few years I've been working for a big international company, which allowed me to travel a lot. Travel, as you all know, is the best way to practice your language skills and to feel how languages really work - not from tapes, courses or internet sites. Currently, I'm trying to upgrade my French. I think I'm at about B1 (this is what I estimated according to the wiki article explaining the level system. I was never tested). I aim to upgrade it to C1 this year. For that, I'm trying to use sites like lang-8 for writing practice and Duolingo for vocab. and translation practice. Also, I'll take on a French course in the French Embassy's Institut Francais. I can also chat very basically in Spanish and Arabic, but I'll take it one language at the time for now... :) I have to tell you that you guys are very impressive and inspiring. Seeing the targets that some of you guys are taking for 2014, makes me feel that my own modest goals are very achievable. Thanks for that! Happy new year! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 5 31 December 2013 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the forum, Jacob! Israel is one of my favourite countries, and one where I know you have a lot of
polyglots. I hope you will enjoy your time on the forum - just be careful: It s addictive:-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jacob1 Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 3985 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 31 December 2013 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you!
And you are right, we do have a lot of polyglots here. The reason for that, I suspect, is that Israelis have no fear of making speaking mistakes in foreign languages... I'm trying to adopt this attitude myself, and drop my tendency to perfectionism... I hope it will work! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4327 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 4 of 5 31 December 2013 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Jacob, welcome to the forum! Good luck with your studies.
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| jacob1 Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 3985 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English Studies: French | Message 5 of 5 31 December 2013 at 8:49pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you, Nicolas!
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