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| ilperugino Pentaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 5166 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 18 18 January 2011 at 10:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, instead of maintaining I´m building a stronger foundation in each of the languages I speak better:
English - I´m doing old Assimil (Inglês sem esforço) to revise English listening to audio books (Now I´m following Frodo at The Lord Of The Rings saga, pretty amazing) Reading this forum Talking to myself Having, and writing to, a penpall Relying on speech and not on subtitles when watching Tv or movies in English Writing posts in this forum Occasional shadowing French: besides being L2 to L3 (Russian) in Assimil Le Russe Sans Peine, I use to talk to myself aswell in this language Pointers: I intend to make a sort of new beginning in both French and Spanish, especially in writing and lexic acquisition (I have by now Assimil for both), although keep on reading technical books in all of these languages, for professional need not intentional practice. Portuguese: My native tongue - trying to vary vocabulary when talking or writing. Edit: one more - correcting misspellings in forum posts Edited by ilperugino on 18 January 2011 at 10:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tropi Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 5423 days ago 67 posts - 87 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 18 18 January 2011 at 10:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Anyone here who actually maintains his active skills? I learned English at school for several years and also read some books/watched films in English, so I understand > 95% (very poorly estimated). And although I am in contact with English every day, it's still hard for me to actively produce something, be it written or oral.
So do some of you actually maintain or train their active skills? I think it is very important as well, because if you tell someone that you speak German it might sound strange if your last spoken word was in your German class 10 years ago. For me maintaining is not a big deal, since I don't know many languages. English is quite easy to maintain because you stumble upon it all the time. My native German obviously isn't a problem and I'm actively working on Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5058 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 18 18 January 2011 at 11:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes we are talking about active skills here!
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6264 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 12 of 18 19 January 2011 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Passive skills - easy. Read Internet pages in the language, and listen to radio or
Youtube. Active is more difficult. Basically, if you get any chance to speak the language, then take that chance. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5122 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 13 of 18 19 January 2011 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
And when you can't speak, write. Even if you can speak, write every day. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6667 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 14 of 18 19 January 2011 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
This is what I am doing in this forum...More than 1,000 messages right now. My goal: 10,000 messages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5122 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 15 of 18 20 January 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged | |||||
Up until this last year, I didn't see much use in a site such as lang-8. Now I think it's pretty great. Of course, as with any site like it, you have to take your time and find the right person to help you along with corrections. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ilperugino Pentaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 5166 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 18 20 January 2011 at 10:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is what I am doing in this forum...More than 1,000 messages right now. My goal: 10,000 messages. [/QUOTE] Go for it. My aim is a bit more modest: to have had a post for each day I´ve been in this forum, but so far I´m running late. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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