Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5325 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 49 of 84 07 March 2011 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
nogoodnik wrote:
It didn't work out with that Russian guy I was talking about, but strangely enough I've met another Russian guy, Yuri, who I like even more. I don't know how all of these Russians suddenly came out of the woodwork, but I'm quite happy about it.
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Well, being young and single has its advantages. :-) I am in a life phase right now, where taco and a movie with the kids is my favourite sort of Friday evening. Really nice, though not really productive for my Russian...
Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 07 March 2011 at 11:54am
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geordie Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5078 days ago 24 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian
| Message 50 of 84 07 March 2011 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
Well that's awfully convenient ;). Let's hope he doesn't find out you only like him for his language... haha, kidding.
Good to see you're keeping up with your studying.
L'étranger is one of the only french novels I actually read all the way through. Besides the Harry Potter series of course. I quite enjoyed it.
Any good Russian TV shows you can recommend?
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nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French
| Message 51 of 84 08 March 2011 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
Cristina: I'm trying to get to your life phase right now. Tacos and kids sounds great. Unfortunately for an introvert like me, this involves dating. Speaking of which, it didn't work out with Yurik either :( I guess I will stick to dating Israelis for awhile because I seem to get along with them better for some reason.
Geordie: Yay you are back!!! You are a guy right? I've been watching a show about some ladies in a beauty shop talking about their clients' trials and triumphs with love. It's entertaining in a cheesy way but there is no way I could recommmend this to a guy or really anyone.
I'm actually thinking of rereading L'étranger but this time while listening to the corresponding audio. I loved that book.
Oh right, so I'm still reading "La Vie Devant Soi," which I love. I've decided to review Using French. I'm also watching dubbed French episodes of "Absolutely Fabulous." I'm watching the Israeli version of Survivor which has turned out to be surprisingly boring. Usually watching Israelis in the wild is funny. I haven't done much with Yiddish today but I'm in the mood today.
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geordie Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5078 days ago 24 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian
| Message 52 of 84 09 March 2011 at 4:28am | IP Logged |
nogoodnik wrote:
I've been watching a show about some ladies in a beauty shop talking
about their clients' trials and triumphs with love. It's entertaining in a cheesy way
but there is no way I could recommmend this to a guy or really anyone. |
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Lol. Yes, I'm a guy. And thanks for sparing me that recommendation ;).
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nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French
| Message 53 of 84 09 March 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
haha. you are wholeheartedly welcome. I wasn't sure that I wanted to admit what I was watching in the first place.
I had an hour long conversation with an Israeli lady yesterday in Hebrew that gave me a pretty good idea of where I am in the language. I speak fluently but I still occasionally have to look for words and I sometimes make gender mistakes when I'm not thinking about it. So I'm pretty pleased but there is still a lot of work to do. I should be able to reach my goal by the end of the year. I need to activate more passive vocabulary and learn more words in general.
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5325 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 54 of 84 13 March 2011 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
I would like to be where you are both in Russian and in Hebrew! Keep up the good work!
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nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French
| Message 55 of 84 17 March 2011 at 5:28pm | IP Logged |
Cristina: thanks! I think that we are probably at about the same level in Russian though.
Basically I've been watching tons of TV and other forms of media but have not been doing enough studying. Besides doing something in each of my target languages daily, I'm trying to come up with another short term goal to make me feel like I'm making progress.
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benzion Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5001 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, EnglishC2 Studies: Russian, Persian, Arabic (classical)
| Message 56 of 84 17 March 2011 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
"hello world"
I had to. my first massage on this website.
GoodLuck on the Hebrew !!
I dont know how you editing your profiles like this but I'm learning also 3 languages : Persian (Farsi), Arabic (Spoken - Israel), Russian. Tip : If you know
hebrew well enough It's really easy to get good sources on Arabic.
Good Luck everyone on the daily challanges and offcourse keep it flowing !!
Good night
"Shabat Shalom ve Hag Purim Same'ah"
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