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| TheGarlicPrince Newbie SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4256 days ago 0 - 4 votes Speaks: EnglishC2 | Message 1 of 1 15 April 2013 at 7:54am | IP Logged |
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“If you can't spell it, don't write it.”
Daamn you guys are serious on language learning over here!. This is my first post and I saw that you use a lot of acronyms which I do not fully comprehend, if I'm breaking any forum rules accept my apologies, I just wanted to start a thread so I get it out of my way, I'm here for the long run. Ok, so I would like to do a bit of an introduction. When it comes to language learning I am definitely a jack of all trades I can fluently speak Spanish, Catalan and English. Spanish and Catalan being my mother tongues, learning English alone does not feel like any major polyglot stunt. I can communicate an estimated average of B1 proficency level in Swedish, Italian, French and German. That poker of languages are both a blessing and a crux for me. While Im proud I can speak them I feel ashamed that I never pursued them to achieve fluency (which for me counts as being able to understand 100% of daily life conversations as well as to express myself without any difficulty or second guessing). -French and Italian came easy for me, I attribute this mainly to Catalan which I like to think of as the modern Latin, it is a bridge to other Latin languages. However I have barely ever studied them. There are also other motives for which I am able to understand them without much difficulty, mainly exposure. I live close to the border with France and we have a lot of Italian tourists in my town. -German is the one language that I actually studied intensively in the past. After reaching a B1 level at a language school I left it behind to never use it again. The fact that most German people could speak English back to me acted as a catalyst to rationalize and telling myself that my fail at German was not my fault but it is Germans that insisted to speak English with me. Stimmt nicht. -Swedsh, finally is possibly my biggest failure, after all I was born in Sweden. However as a toddler I moved to Spain, and I never went to any Swedish school. The only way I learnt was through my family, but the last time I was in Sweden was 10 years ago. My Swedish remains pretty agile despite that, and I can communicate most of my thoughts, but as soon as we reach any level of complexity I find myself at a loss for words. Not to mention my non existant grammar skills, I can barely read it correctly. On top of that, to add insult to injury I am currently not pursuing improvement in any of my four cruxes but I have embarked myself into the rather complicated adventure of learning Russian. There is somewhat of a rational explanation behind this but knowing my relationship with languages I want to push through and excel at this language. I want one day to be able to say that I speak fluently four languages and that I have dabbled in other four. Thus, this log will serve as a testimony of how I go about learning Russian. I would say that my Russian is at a higher A2 or lower B1 level, I am going to take the TRIKI Russian test in June and I want to pass it without major problems. By the end of the summer I want to be closer to B2 level than to B1. I have time at my disposal and I use a semi-total immersion approach to learning it. Resources are vast, But more on that later, need to get my day going over here, oчень приятно! 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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