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| swedeenz Newbie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5006 days ago 17 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Bulgarian | Message 9 of 13 28 July 2012 at 7:57am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the advice Kartof!
Yeah, I agree with you that it's not the most exciting looking book. I find studying handwritten writing in bulgarian a bit confusing, mainly because the 3 main books I use, Teach yourself, Assimil and Intensive Bulgarian all write the words slightly differently. So sometimes I'm not sure which one I should be going off. I tend to go over the dialog with my girlfriend, just to make sure I'm saying it correctly and get any tips from a native speaker. Thanks again. German 28-07-12 The last couple of days I have been out with some friends so I didn't post my progress for thursday and friday. Thursday I printed out a article from der Spiegel, I marked down for words and expressions I didn't know and worked my way through that. I then finished with watching a couple of episodes of 'How I met your mother' in German obviously. Friday I wrote out the first 20 lessons of Assimil with Ease. I have gone over these so many times before I almost know them off by heart, so it didn't take too long. Today, I printed another article out, this one on Apple vs Samsung as it looked interesting. Went through the whole thing, I understood around 75%. There was many words and expressions that I haven't come across yet. Tonight I will watch the tagesschau. Bulgarian I have been going over the handwriting today, the Teach Yourself book has alot of exercises so I have been trying to write those out. I went over the dialog again in the "Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook and Reference Grammar" book, and did the exercises and the end of the lesson. I did well on the conjunction exercise (И or А), and got a few wrong on the correct verb form exercise. example. Милена и Димитър си от Варна (should be 'са') I had more trouble on the exercise where I had to write the questions to the following answers. For alot of the answers there are more than one way to form the question. 1. Ние пътуваме за Варна. - Къде за пътувате? (За къде пътувате?*) 2. Да, те са студенти. - Сутденти ли са? (correct) 3. Да, той е лекар. - Лекар ли е? (correct) 4. От София съм. - Откъде сте? (correct) 5. Той е от София, а тя е от Варна. - Откъде са? (correct) 6. Казвам се Милена. - Как си казвате? (се*) 7. Той се казва Максим. - Как си казвате той? (се* and no -тe should be казва) I have a question regarding this, A couple of the answers have various ways you can ask the question, what form would you find used more? 2. Те студенти ли са? or Студенти ли са? 3. Той лекар ли е? or Лекар ли е? 5. Откъде е той? Откъде е тя? or Откъде са те? or Откъде са? 7. Как се казва той? Как се казва? Or are all the various forms used widely? Edited by swedeenz on 28 July 2012 at 8:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5058 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 10 of 13 28 July 2012 at 8:49am | IP Logged |
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For the examples you gave (2,3,5, and 7), use of the subject pronoun merely adds stress
and you'll find both forms commonly used. It's as if you're directing attention to the person(s) the question is asking about. It's completely optional though and is more stylistic than anything. By the way, for the answers to #6 and #7, it should be се and not си in both cases. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| swedeenz Newbie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5006 days ago 17 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Bulgarian | Message 11 of 13 28 July 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Kartof, much appreciated!
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| swedeenz Newbie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5006 days ago 17 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Bulgarian | Message 12 of 13 15 August 2012 at 8:15am | IP Logged |
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I haven't updated my log since the site had problems, I haven't been doing as much
study lately mainly because of my health problems and constantly spending my days going from specialist to specialist and from test to test. I have finally put a day planner in place, because my time management was pretty poor before, I wouldn't have a set study time or anything, so I decided that it would be best to implement a bit of discipline and have set times during the day to study. Bulgarian I think Bulgarian has been going rather well lately, I have moved on to lesson 2 of Intensive Bulgarian: A text book and reference grammar. I felt comfortable with the first lesson, I didn't go over the additional grammar notes because I don't like taking such an intense grammatic approach when first learning a language. I purchased the audio to TY Complete Bulgarian about a week ago from the book depository.com so I'm hoping that will arrive shortly. I also have the Colloquial Bulgarian, however I'm not sure how good this course is or If I should just stick to the resources I'm using at the moment. I'm also thinking of making some videos for youtube, at this stage I would probably just record myself reading the dialogs for pronunciation feedback, and when I'm better, making videos of me speaking Bulgarian. German This week I have been reading a book called Das Herz von Dresden it's by Klett and at B1 level, I have the audio as well, so have gone through it a couple of times and at the end it has questions regarding the story. I have continued with the Assimil course doing 2 lessons a day, and I hope to do more German in the coming days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| swedeenz Newbie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5006 days ago 17 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Bulgarian | Message 13 of 13 16 August 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
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Spent over 1 hour today editing audio, firstly for Bulgarian Reference Grammar, because at the start of each track it has annoying music, so I cut them down to just the dialogs, which took alot longer than expected, I did the same for the TY Bulgarian Conversation audio and TY Bulgarian which just arrived. So now all the audio is similar to Assimil, pure dialogs. Listened to the recording of dialog 2 about 9 times, followed by reading it aloud and then translating back and forth. German Today was rather lite for German, I went through lesson 25,26,27,28 of Assimil German with Ease and then watched the movie Gloomy Sunday. I finished today with lesson 7,8 of Pimsleur, Which I'm finding rather quite boring as it's not a method I enjoy so I may stop using it. Edited by swedeenz on 16 August 2012 at 3:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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