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| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4022 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 1 of 11 02 December 2013 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
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....and picks up a new one! My goal is to hit B2 level in Italian on all levels!
Hi! I'm Leslie, a I'm a 19 year old girl from Michigan. Nice to meetcha! Piacere di conoscerti! :P For roughly the past 2 1/2 months (I started roughly around August 17th or so), I have been learning Italian, and it's been a fun struggle. I would say I'm roughly at the borderline A1/A2 level now, my skills definitely stronger in reading/writing than speaking and listening. Here's a list of the materials I've been using- Duolingo: An EXCELLENT resource. Now that I've started this log, I want to keep up with at least 2 lessons a day if possible. http://www.duolingo.com/Pratica Pimsleur: A way to improve my listening and speaking, I'm currently on lesson 9. What I aim to do is to repeat each lesson until I fully understand the content, or at least most of it. Speaking is definitely not my strong suit, so I hope to improve it through this at least somewhat. Michel Thomas: My use of this is sporadic, to say the least, but I find them entertaining and a good way to pick up new vocab. iTalki: I plan on writing at LEAST one journal a week. Here's my profile on there. http://www.italki.com/user/1311803 Skype: I believe I have my skype name on here, but PLEASE add me as a contact and tell me who you are/where you're from before sending me messages and such. I'd love to practice my Italian with you! LWT: I LOVE LOVE LOVE LWT. It's been invaluable for translating song lyrics and other fun Italian materials, which are serving to keep me motivated. On that note.... Italian songs, movies, readings, etc. Right now, I'm currently learning the lyrics to "Le Forbici" by il Triangolo, a really great, catchy song, as well as watching La Meglio Gioventu. It's really helping me get into the culture of Italy. I'm also planning on picking up "The Little Prince", or "Il Piccolo Principe" in Italian! Thank you for reading! I hope this log will at least be somewhat entertaining! Edited by corjine on 02 December 2013 at 12:05pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4022 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 11 02 December 2013 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
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Today wasn't that exciting on the learning front, mostly due to the fact that I had to
go Christmas shopping and what not. 1 Lesson of Duolingo: Screw Present Perfect. There, I said it. It's making life very difficult for me. I only completed one lesson today due to it, and it's just kicking my ass. It's not that I don't understand the concept, because on the mobile version of duolingo (where it's drag and drop) I can blaze through the lesson(s). I just can't seem to do it when I'm forced to translate directly. I always mess up word order and who exactly is speaking and gahhhhhhhh. Verb tenses, why are you so difficult?? LWT: General review. Duolingo Verbs 3: 
"Le Forbici" Lyrics: 
Pimsleur: Cheated a bit today and didn't listen to the whole lesson, but I'm finding it easier to respond quicker. I consider Lesson 9 finished today, and will go onto Lesson 10 tomorrow. I've been listening to a lot of Italian versions of Disney songs today. It's really fun, and it's encouraging when I get the vocab and understand a sentence without translation. :> Today, I'd consider not very productive. :( Hopefully tomorrow I"ll focus more on tackling the difficulties known as Present Perfect, and watch a Disney movie in Italian only. Edited by corjine on 02 December 2013 at 10:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 3 of 11 03 December 2013 at 1:22am | IP Logged |
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I love Le petit prince! Hmmm…I've never thought of looking for it in Spanish. Thanks for the idea!
Good luck learning Italian! I look forward to reading your log. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4022 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 11 03 December 2013 at 1:53am | IP Logged |
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Le Petit Prince is the de facto children's book for French, so I'd figure I'd try it for
Italian. Thank you! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6063 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 5 of 11 03 December 2013 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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Hello, corjine.
I see you've stacked up for winter. Quite a collection you've got there. If you're willing to try children's classics, I'd like to suggest Le avventure di Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi. You don't get more Italian than that. :) Best of luck to you. Have fun learning. Edited by Luso on 03 December 2013 at 11:23am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4022 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 11 03 December 2013 at 12:20pm | IP Logged |
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I'll try it after Il Piccolo Principe! Thank you!
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| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4022 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 7 of 11 03 December 2013 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
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Nothing too special today, just some more Duolingo and Pimsleur.
Duolingo: Oh Present Perfect. I'm starting to understand you more, finally and thank god, but your irregularities are still haunting my dreams. Pimsleur: Lesson 10 today. Will review it again tomorrow. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4255 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 11 04 December 2013 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
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It's a lot easier to just try to not be aggravated at irregularities. It helps me to think that once upon a time they were regular but the centuries have bleached some, especially the most used forms, and that's why it is "so" and not "sapo".
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