Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 121 of 360 08 February 2013 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
Congrats, Emme! I'm about the same time as you, even though I tried Russian several years
ago. I'm sure the next 100 days will bring a lot more of hope and fun!
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 122 of 360 21 February 2013 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
Emme wrote:
Today I’ve reached a tiny milestone: it’s 100 days since I’ve started learning Russian. |
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That is awesome. Congratulations. :)
Emme wrote:
What’s weirdest (and somehow I still can’t wrap my head around how that happened) is that until just a few months ago I’d never imagined that I’d be studying this amazing language. I had always thought that the first exotic language (i.e. not the usual English, French, German, Spanish etc.) I would try to learn would be Chinese or Japanese. Life always has a way to surprise us! |
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Isn't it strange what happens to us when we hang around HTLAL too much?
I think we can blame kanewai for starting the Assimil challenge. It's his fault. :)
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 123 of 360 10 March 2013 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
Hey Emme,
how's everything going? I hope you're still making progress in Russian? It would be great to read from you again soon!
Успехов!
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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 124 of 360 10 March 2013 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
Thanks Josquin for dropping by.
Here’s a quick post to say hi to everybody, especially my fellow Mir and Viking teammates.
I’m sorry that I’ve been absent from the forum for the past month.
Everything was going fine especially with Russian and the 6wc when we had a major health crisis in the family. Hopefully, the worse is now over, but I’m not sure if and when I’ll be able to get back to language learning in earnest with log updates and twitter posts. Priorities are very different now: at most I may use language learning as a distraction from other worries (god knows I need it!).
I hope to be back soon and to read about all your amazing progress in the meantime.
Wishing you all the best!
Emme
Edited by Emme on 10 March 2013 at 8:31pm
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 125 of 360 10 March 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
Hope the crisis become soon a thing of the past, Emme! All the best to your family. I'd
be happy to see you around with Russian again!
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 126 of 360 10 March 2013 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
Oh dear, there really seems to be some sort of curse on Team MIR! Of course, family is more important than everything else. I hope everything turns out well and you can get back to your languages soon!
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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 127 of 360 24 March 2013 at 7:36pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the moral support, Expugnator and Josquin!
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Things have somewhat improved in the past couple of weeks, and I’ve been able to spend 10 minutes here, half an hour there with my target languages: nothing very intense, just watching some TV, listening to podcasts or reading the news in my TL(s). None of it is “real study” (at least not in my book), but it’s nice to be able to steal a little time for myself now and then to engage in languages again.
I’m awfully behind reading everybody’s logs, so please bear with me while I try to catch up!
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 128 of 360 25 March 2013 at 7:13am | IP Logged |
Life sometimes throws you curv balls, and our team members seem to have received their fair share this
year, but I know that we will overcome that. I work with a French organisation where three out of four of the
last heads have been chauvinist, undemocratic and a bully. Since I call them on it, I get my fair share of
blows. My boss described me as someone who could get knocked out, but would take a moment to
breathe, struggle up on my feet again, spit out blood and teeth and go charging right into the fight again.
I am counting on all of us to do that once we get our bearings. We just need to catch our breath first. :-)
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