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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 113 of 297 03 October 2014 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
@tarvos: I am actually fairly satisfied with my ability to speak Russian - not that it is perfect, far from it - but
most of the time I can get my meaning across. My problem is that I so often do not understand the answers,
because my vocabulary is too limited.
@Chung: Yes, it is a pleasure to meet other HTLALers :-)
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 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 114 of 297 03 October 2014 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
@tarvos: I am actually fairly satisfied with my ability to speak
Russian - not that it is perfect, far from it - but
most of the time I can get my meaning across. My problem is that I so often do not
understand the answers,
because my vocabulary is too limited.
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That's why I hate the intermediate stage :)
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5055 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 115 of 297 03 October 2014 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
How is your name actually pronounced, Cristina?
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 116 of 297 03 October 2014 at 8:59pm | IP Logged |
Марк wrote:
How is your name actually pronounced, Cristina? |
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I would not know how to begin to explain that. Like I said, it is unpronounceable. Solfrid Kvernsveen is so
impossible, that I never use it professionally, I just use Cristina.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 117 of 297 03 October 2014 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
@tarvos: I am actually fairly satisfied with my ability to speak
Russian - not that it is perfect, far from it - but
most of the time I can get my meaning across. My problem is that I so often do not
understand the answers,
because my vocabulary is too limited.
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That's why I hate the intermediate stage :) |
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I don't hate it but yeah that's what it is. As I said, when your vocabulary is finally sufficient, that will be basic fluency imo :) What the intermediate stage looks&feels like can vary between languages.
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| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4253 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish
| Message 118 of 297 03 October 2014 at 9:41pm | IP Logged |
Really great reading about your travels Cristina! I will simply echo the jealousy other have expressed, hope I get the opportunity to see more of the world and meet some HTLALers one day.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 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 119 of 297 03 October 2014 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
tarvos wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
@tarvos: I am actually
fairly satisfied with my ability to speak
Russian - not that it is perfect, far from it - but
most of the time I can get my meaning across. My problem is that I so often do not
understand the answers,
because my vocabulary is too limited.
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That's why I hate the intermediate stage :) |
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I don't hate it but yeah that's what it is. As I said, when your vocabulary is finally
sufficient, that will be basic fluency imo :) What the intermediate stage looks&feels
like can vary between languages. |
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But I, unlike you, at age 7 would pretend to speak German while on holiday, even
though I didn't know a word of German :D
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 120 of 297 03 October 2014 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Марк wrote:
How is your name actually pronounced, Cristina? |
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I would not know how to begin to explain that. Like I said, it is unpronounceable. Solfrid Kvernsveen is so impossible, that I never use it professionally, I just use Cristina. |
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Solfrid is on forvo at least. Sorry but it reminds me on сульфит from chemistry (sulfite). I actually think that for Russians the biggest problem is that they have no clue about the Norwegian rules of pronunciation. Сульфрид in cyrillics would be manageable.
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