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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 97 of 336 12 November 2012 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Something came up yesterday so I wasn't able to get to my Irish lessons for the week but
I have some extra time on Monday so I ought to be able to pencil it in. I wish there were an Irish Memrise deck with audio then I could get that in. I'll hunt around for some relatively simple Irish material with audio to put in LWT. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 98 of 336 12 November 2012 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow, she's totally not comfortable in that conversation, but she's too over-socialized to tell him how she really feels. And he treats dating like a door-to-door missionary trying to argue someone into joining a cult. The clincher is really the "You have a lot of work to do on Sunday?", where he's trying to use her polite, face-saving lies to badger her. If this were an Assimil lesson, that woman one would get one more line of dialog. And it would be both hilarious, and at his expense. 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 99 of 336 12 November 2012 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Speaking of funny dialogues and chicks - there's one in Assimil Russian where two people
are discussing how someone's nephew got married to a rather plump woman, and she's unsure and believes he'll drop her like a stone. So the other person advises her "not to go on any bridges, lay flowers at the memorials, etc and the cat's in the bag". "Won't she take offence?" "Main thing - explain it to her tactfully..." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 100 of 336 12 November 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah that line really stuck out to me when it was prompted. And yeah, that's one of the strengths of Assimil over Pimsleur - there's a sense of a storyline. Though Pimsleur has some implied storylines if you read into it (which you'll end up doing as it's not terribly exciting material). I'm at the point where they talk about their kids so not expecting anymore aggressive flirting but I may be surprised. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 101 of 336 15 November 2012 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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On track to finish Pimsleur II tonight meaning I should still be able to finish level III
by the end of the month. I also just signed up for italki's November challenge: http://www.italki.com/language-challenge/ and scheduled my first lesson for tomorrow. Given that there are plenty of teachers at the $10 and under range that means I'll get 50%-75% of my money back if I complete the challenge. I'll need to average one lesson every other day to complete it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 102 of 336 16 November 2012 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Damn, I wish I had heard about that challenge earlier... they kept that one quiet, I didn't even get an email about it although I'm an italki member. Not great timing though, November's such a busy month and I'm not quite convinced that I could fit in eight one-hour lessons in the next two weeks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 103 of 336 17 November 2012 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Had my first session today. It went pretty well - my first experience conversing in
Spanish for an hour. Even with 24 hours notice the teacher had conversation topics prepared focusing on different areas (self-description, present, past, future, conditional, giving opinion, etc). I found that with a paid conversation partner there to guide me I could say a lot more than I thought I could. I spoke pretty slowly overall, had some hesitations while figuring out how to say stuff, was limited to saying basic things a lot of the time when I found I didn't have the language, and used the rising, "questioning" inflection in my voice a lot. But on the bright side I managed some pretty "advanced" statements (thanks mostly to help from French/English and he didn't have to correct me very often. I'm a sort of mixture of beginning and intermediate where I know some advanced things while completely stumped on basics. And despite the initial discomfort of talking to strangers over Skype I can see that this will be a great resource for conversation practice. Knowing that your partner is willingly speaking to you to help you takes the anxiety off trying to speak to natives "in the wild". I now have my next three sessions set up - we'll see where it will take me! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 104 of 336 17 November 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I have Por ella soy Eva streaming over Hulu on my TV and it looks great. The subs/closed
captions are better than on TV/On Demand and it's much easier to repeat specific sections than on On Demand. I would love it if there were a way to download the subtitles... I found ways to do so on Youtube which opens up other possibilities for me but I'd love to have them for this show seeing that I'm currently watching it. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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