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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 9 of 19 17 May 2012 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||
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End of Day 3,
Lesson 3 of Pimsleur - 30 minutes Michel Thomas Foundation CD 1, Tracks 17-19 ~ 45 minutes 45 minutes study time today. 2:45 hours total. I just finished up the first MT cd. I know they are randomly split, but I didn't want to start the next one and only do 15 minutes. I may burn through a lot tomorrow. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 10 of 19 18 May 2012 at 6:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I did part of the 2nd CD for MT Foundation today.
I then went to a Russian import store in another part of the state (I had business there earlier in the day). I'd never been there, but thought that real life exposure would trump another plain study day. It was quite the experience. First, it was cool to practice reading Russian on all the random advertisements and different styles of food. Stylized Cyrillic can be tricky at times! Then the owner asked my friends and me if we spoke Russian. I knew what I wanted to say, but sort of froze up. It was almost like that feeling you get when you make your move across a room to talk to a beautiful woman. Heart beat was rising and I felt some nervousness rising in my throat. Sadly, when approaching a beautiful woman, I can just say things I've been saying my whole life "Hi, my name is....How are you?" and the feeling goes away. This was not to be, haha. It took me way too long to process the info, but the guy was quite nice about everything. I ended up saying hi, introducing myself, and saying it was nice to meet him in Russian. He then gave me some free samples of a few types of Russian meats that were quite tasty. He also gave me a couple of month old newspapers from Russia to practice reading. All in all, 10/10 for cultural exchange but about a 3/10 for language exchange as I understand most of what he said but was not really able to get out what I wanted in a timely manner. Still fun though. I think I must encourage all other beginners to get out there and be around the language you are studying if at all possible. I messed up, but no one yelled, no one was disappointed, and I met a very nice person out of it. He said I was welcome to return to his store anytime and practice speaking to him! Sadly, I won't be out the way much and am moving in two weeks, but it was invigorating! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 11 of 19 20 May 2012 at 8:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Started Assimil! I figured with my previous exposure the first week would be ridiculously
slow and boring. So I did Lessons 1-3 yesterday (Friday) with a few hours break between each. Then lesson 4 this morning and Lesson 5 twice this evening. Tomorrow morning I'll do Lesson 6 and then review all of the Lessons throughout the afternoon along with 7. Then Monday I'll start Lesson 8 and go back to the 1 lesson a day pace. Though I'll likely do it a few times throughout the day using the famous Dutch with Ease directions. I really like Assimil :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 12 of 19 21 May 2012 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Just finished Lesson 7 of Assimil.
I re-listened to all the first 6 lessons and repeated each line out loud in Russian and then tried to say what it meant in English. I had very high recall, only a couple sentences were off. Then I went back and read through the grammar notes that seemed less easy for me to remember and wrote down a few of the tougher vocab words (only on average 1 per lesson, it is the passive wave after all). Then I read through the Lesson 7 grammar stuff and wrote out the grammar in my own words. Then I did the final dialogue and had it all down except the negative interrogative threw me off. Not too bad I'd say. It has been interesting to start this and think back to how things were introduced in my Russian class. 6 lessons in and I've already been exposed to 4 cases here. Very intriguing. As I said, tomorrow it is back to 1 lesson per day! Hopefully the positive stuff continues. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 13 of 19 24 May 2012 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Chugging along doing one lesson a day. I do it once in the morning and once at night. It
takes about 20 minutes in the morning because I also re-write any grammar notes that seem tricky to me. 10-15 minutes at night, tops. I have a translation question, though. Lesson 11 is a dialogue between two people about a film. а мне он не нравится = Well, I don't like it. So, I am still a beginner, but is this correct? I guess I don't get why the "OH" is there since I am under the impression that OH means "he" or "him." Any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5061 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 14 of 19 25 May 2012 at 10:26am | IP Logged | ||
And to me, he doesn't appeal. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4712 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 15 of 19 25 May 2012 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||
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if you use a construction with мне нравится, then the thing that you (dis)like is in the nominative. So literally it translates as "he doesn't appeal to me".
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| Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6557 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish | Message 16 of 19 25 May 2012 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, this is correct. See here for more details. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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