Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 9 of 26 19 December 2013 at 8:25am | IP Logged |
@Cristina
I'm not quite sure if I'm on the path to enlightenment or sublime ignorance, but I'm all the happier to be on that road together wherever it leads, sis! One day we'll both be able to throw Russian idioms casually to the wind, and enjoy chai with sushki like the best of them. Until then, let's keep pushing each other ever forward to a world beyond Pimsleur chat-up lines and full of the eloquence of Pushkin.
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 10 of 26 19 December 2013 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
Pushkin. You said the magic word. I think he must be the secret goal/desire/role model for most russian language learners!
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 11 of 26 19 December 2013 at 9:31am | IP Logged |
renaissancemedi wrote:
Pushkin. You said the magic word. I think he must be the secret goal/desire/role model for most russian language learners! |
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Да, мои кумиры....Пушкин...и конечно Крокодил Гена!
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 12 of 26 19 December 2013 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
Teango wrote:
I've been avoiding your language log this week like a small child trying to ignore a shiny new action figure or shy away from a chocolate muffin on the kitchen table (and those pictures aren't helping either; they're just transforming this temptation into a chocolate muffin sprinkled with hundreds and thousands with a sparkler stuck in the middle!). Must resist, must resist...I have projects to write up...but by the Eye of Horus, your experiment looks so much more interesting! :) |
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Aww, you're far too nice.
Teango wrote:
Ok, let's make a deal. If we finish L'Égyptien hiéroglyphique by the end of May 2015, we'll earn some type of related treat. I don't know what it is just yet, but we have plenty of time to think of it. And if we fail in our quest, then it's a trip to the embalmers for the both of us. |
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And so it begins.
We shan't organize a TAC team, because there's no "Total Annihilation" here. Rather the opposite, in fact: We shall be as patient and abiding as if we were buried beneath the dry sands of Luxor. But our little is.t will endure. And we will learn r n(y) km.t.
In fact, if you're interested, I'll go ahead and create a "team" log and typeset some pretty hieroglyphs for the first post. :-)
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 13 of 26 19 December 2013 at 6:58pm | IP Logged |
renaissancemedi wrote:
Pushkin. You said the magic word. I think he must be the secret
goal/desire/role model for most russian language learners! |
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No, it's definitely not a secret.
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Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5794 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 14 of 26 19 December 2013 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
Удачи!
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 15 of 26 19 December 2013 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
@emk
Setting up a team log for this long-term challenge is a great idea! And I was sorely tempted to add a rallying cry of the Scorpion King, but I think this clip may be closer to our reality.
@Anya
Big congratulations on passing the DALF C1! I look forward to following your posts and interesting smorgasbord of video links again next year. :)
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milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4332 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language
| Message 16 of 26 20 December 2013 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
I've been in Russia since 2009 actually, with the exception of 2010-2011 (the academic
year). It's good. I don't speak nearly as much Russian as I should, but I've made a pact
with myself to take the C1 exam in June 2015, which is a long way off still, but I think
I'm fairly close to that level already, at least in the passive skills part.
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