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Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5124 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh
| Message 9 of 16 13 January 2013 at 10:30pm | IP Logged |
@ Maïwenn and Liam, Thank you very much, I'll try to do my best. Pob lwc to you too!
Serpent, no idea why they had so many books in Swedish. A king from Swedish dynasty moved our capital from Kraków to Warszawa, maybe it's the hotel's way to show gratitude :P Seriously, no idea. I did buy five books, four in German and one in Spanish. I'm always very happy when I find a good novel in German because my mum and sister both speak it and we all profit from my purchase.
It was great to meet you in Wrocław :)
Norwegian:
I'm revising 5 first chapters of Vil du lære norsk and I watched Himmel og helvete, I'm not sure if this film actually deterred someone from taking drugs but I enjoyed it. Is it well known in Norway? (It's from 1969, could be a classic)
Welsh:
Right now I'm listening to the fifth audio lesson of saysomethinginwelsh beginners course, I also have radio Ceredigion playing in the background when I do something on my computer, from time to time they switch from English to Welsh.
Spanish: I watched the news on Deutsche Welle online (dw.de)
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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 10 of 16 13 January 2013 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
Gosiak wrote:
I watched Himmel og helvete, I'm not sure if this film actually deterred someone from taking drugs but I enjoyed it. Is it well known in Norway? (It's from 1969, could be a classic)
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I have never heard of it, but I was only 7 years old when it was released. Lillebjørn Nilsen is super famous in Norway though.
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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5124 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh
| Message 11 of 16 14 January 2013 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
Welsh!
I asked Radio Ceredigion team on facebook if they have any only Welsh programm on air and they answered me immediately that they have a daily show between 6 and 8 pm. I also wrote them that I want to learn their beautiful language. I'm listening to it now and they greeted me twice (sofar) during the audition and said that they believe I can learn Welsh (if I understood correctly), what a great encouragement.
The broadcast is not entirely in Welsh (news and adds are in English) but they play many Welsh songs.
Radio Ceredigion - if anybody wanted to hear casual Welsh.
Edited by Gosiak on 14 January 2013 at 8:14pm
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 12 of 16 14 January 2013 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
Nice, that's really motivating!
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| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4355 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish
| Message 13 of 16 17 January 2013 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
"due to my renewed interest in mythology and penchant for metal and folk music, and I
thought to myself that one day I have to start learning Norwegian."
That's awesome! Learning a language to listen to the Metal they make must be hard though.
I'm already having enough problems with understanding English/Dutch metal but those
Scandinavians sure know how to make metal.
Lykke til Gosiak!
Edited by Kez on 17 January 2013 at 8:53am
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 14 of 16 27 January 2013 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
Good luck with Norwegian and other languages , Gosiak!
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| Tahl Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4286 days ago 26 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Welsh Studies: Spanish, Finnish
| Message 15 of 16 02 March 2013 at 5:35pm | IP Logged |
Gosiak wrote:
Bore da!
Welsh: For now I try to focus on revising saysomethinginwelsh's free course using their
approach (just listening and repeating, no notes, no reading) and I listen to Radio
Ceredigion (they talk in Welsh every now and then). Later on I'll use Colloquial Welsh
and BBC's Catchphrase course.
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Shwmae, Gosiak, a gobeithio dy fod ti'n joio'r Gymraeg! (Hiya, Gosiak, & hope you're
enjoying Welsh!) If you are doing SSIW, I think you've probably seen me on the (very
active & supportive) forum there. How far have you gotten so far, and are you doing
northern or southern? If you're listening to Radio Ceredigion, I'm guessing southern
(like me).
Are you aware that you can listen to Radio Cymru free online (all Welsh, all the time),
and that it's available also through TuneIn apps?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocymru/
I find Taro'r Post (midday in Wales) particularly useful listening practice, since as a
call-in show it gets people with all sorts of accents.
I also recommend Pigion, which is Radio Cymru's weekly podcast for learners (edited
excerpts from the week's shows, with specially-written introductions and vocab sheets
available online). You can get it in iTunes, or here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/pigion
For the vocab sheets, go here and click on 'Geirfa' (vocabulary):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocymru/safle/pigion//
I don't personally like Colloquial Welsh (too disorganized), but King's Modern Welsh is
imho a spectacularly good reference grammar book for the colloquial spoken language. To
me, the only 'teaching' resources you really have to have to handle Welsh are SSIW,
Modern Welsh, the green idioms book (check on www.gwales.com, you'll find it), plus
music, Radio Cymru, Pigion, novels for learners, 'real novels,' etc. Somewhere near
the end of Course 2 of SSIW I also went systematically through the southern Cwrs
Mynediad and Cwrs Sylfaen Welsh for Adults texts to make sure I had all the basics
down. (I don't recommend the Cwrs Canolradd book -- by the time you get there, it's way
too easy.)
I'm pretty comfortable with Welsh now, and am starting Spanish. I held off until I was
confident the Welsh was enough 'part of me' not to go away.
Pob lwc! Mae'r Gymraeg yn hyfryd. (Good luck! Welsh is lovely.) :-)
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 16 of 16 16 March 2013 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
Bore da, Gosiak! How are you getting along with saysomethinginwelsh? I've added Radio Ceredigion to my iTunes list now, as well as some of those other great BBC Welsh links mentioned by Tahl.
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