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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 14 27 July 2012 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cristina, you're awesome!
Tecktight: I bought Norština nejen pro samouky. It is part of a Czech series, similar to TY or Colloquial but I think the Czech courses are more comprehensive. It looks really great. And I love some of the Norwegian false friends. For exemple gift means married. And stol means chair, while stůl in Czech, which is pronounced the same, means table. It's an awesome language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 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 10 of 14 28 July 2012 at 9:28am | IP Logged | ||
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In German, Gift means poison, which is an even more ironic false friend :)
Good luck with Norwegian! I prefer Swedish, as I've mentioned before I think, so I'm learning that instead, but given the relative closeness of the two languages I think I'll be able to follow a huge chunk of what is going on here :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 11 of 14 28 July 2012 at 10:02am | IP Logged | ||
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@Cristina: Thanks! I will definitely be taking you up on some of your offers. Also, is there anything you haven't
done or taught? Next thing you'll be telling us you were once a parachuting instructor. @Cavesa: Hm, sounds like a nice book. I'm sure you'll have success with it. Indeed, I've noticed that variations of "stol" exist in countless languages. I think literally every language I've studied has featured that word, meaning different things, of course. It means 'table' in Serbian and Russian, too, though... I'm guessing it means that in most Slavic languages, if not all? @tarvos: Definitely, you'll be able to pick up on stuff on this log. Swedish is also an excellent choice. I was debating picking Swedish a while back, but Norwegian warms me more, for some reason. Though I do think Swedish is sort of, well, cuter. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5326 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 14 28 July 2012 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
No, no parachuting experience :-) In 25 years from now I am sure you will have lots of experiences too. So far I have been a translator, a news paper girl, a guide, I have taught English, French and Spanish in high school, French for cooks, Tecnical English, Norwegian for foreigners and Norwegian with Social Science in a proffesional school, worked 20 years for the railways, I give Power Point presentations about roses and flowering bulbs, run my own business selling photos of flowers to news papers and magazines ( and have had my work printed in a dozen publications) I write articles on gardening, tulips and roses for specialised magazines and produce and sell rose jelly. In my free time I have been head of Oslo Rose society, Grorud church council, and been a member of the Norwegian Nudist Association, the Ukrainian Norwegian friendship association and the English society for Historical Rose Society and 5 Scandinavian Rose and Gardening societies. I have also won two photo competitions and been best exhibitor at the Rose show 3 of the 4 times I participated. Too much free time? Not a problem:-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 28 July 2012 at 6:06pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 13 of 14 29 July 2012 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE LOG--WEEK 1
Monday, July 23 Norword: 37 min Tuesday, July 24 Norword: 41 min Wednesday, July 25 Norword: 10 min Listened to dialogues: 5 min Thursday, July 26 None Friday, July 27 Norword: 9 min Saturday, July 28 Norword: 56 min Sunday, July 29 Norword: 35 min Total : 3 hrs, 13 min Overall, it's a paltry amount, but I'm relatively pleased. My main goal is consistency. Once I can establish good daily habits, I can increase my daily workload. I just want to get the discipline down first. Edited by Tecktight on 29 July 2012 at 6:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 14 of 14 29 July 2012 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cristina, goodness! Молодец! I knew you were an expert greenthumb (just the brief glimpse we got of your
garden in the video with Richard was stunning), but I didn't realize you were into photography, as well! Like I said on your log, you should indulge us with some photographs some time! I'd love to see some of your work. I wish I could manage my time as well as you do! Evidently, with all those activities, plus your multiple languages, you're a master at it. Any tips that you can share with a time-wasting, poorly-disciplined person like myself? I assume you make use of some sort of planning system. Do you map out each day, or each week? How detailed do you get in your daily plans? I've tried everything from making lists (which I never manage to finish, and thus frequently disappoint myself) to mapping out every hour of my day. The latter works well, but, after just a couple days, I stop making a daily plan and it just all falls by the wayside. Maybe it's that I spend too much time on the internet. Closing FB, HTAL, and my emails, which are open nearly all the time, might be a good start... Edited by Tecktight on 29 July 2012 at 6:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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