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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 30 06 April 2011 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, took me a bit longer to get to my log this time. I am busy with school but I got time for a few things concerning languages.
French-I started writing a diary in french, just for myself. It is like speaking to myself a bit but I immediately write down words I need to look for in a dictionary. It is not exactly like speaking but I'll have time for that later. Spanish-Did some exercises and half a lesson (lessons of second third of the coursebook seem to take me much longer than the previous ones. and I have less time). Latin-took a test concerning some vocabulary, numbers, basics of verbs handling...i think i could have passed but i don't think i know much of the latin included in the test (at least not now, two days after the test). i am actually looking forward to leaving it after passing the final exam. But Latin is not planning to leave me, it's quite anywhere in what I am studying. English-started reading the newest Terry Pratchett's book (newest means from last september). and wrote a few things on forum. So my plans for April: -catch up with my school subjects, which will be the limitation to my time spent learning languages -Spanish: two more lessons in my textbook, more of the exercises for things i have already learnt (i found out that my exercise books are great!) -French: keep writing the diary. i wont have much time for other things i need to do -Latin: survive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 30 11 April 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
there are a few news of mine. I passed the latin test from last week :-) 56 points out of 60. For Spanish, I have done one unit of exercises of grammar and two of vocabulary. For French, I've been keeping the diary and I have dived in the verbs. I wish so much I would have more time for my languages. A few days ago, I've seen the Lord of the Rings in French in a bookstore. When I have the money, I'll buy it and read it when my exams are finished. And one thing dissapointed me. I wanted to buy a few french comics but the price for sending them to Czech Republic is higher than the one for US, Norway and other places much more far from France than my home. It is nearly twice as high as price to Germany, which is approximately 150km from Prague. Why? Holidays are fortunately not that far, perhaps some of my friends will be going to France. Or a french bookstore in Prague orders books for customers, just not sure for what price. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ikipou Diglot Newbie Norway lingua.ikipou.com/ Joined 4981 days ago 24 posts - 23 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 11 of 30 11 April 2011 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
Which stores have you looked? Some popular ones: amazon.fr fnac.fr furet.com There could be a store with cheaper rate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 12 of 30 12 April 2011 at 7:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Both amazon.fr and fnac.fr and a few others, probably smaller ones like bdfugue.com.
WIll try furet.com, thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 13 of 30 16 April 2011 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, I know Sunday is tommorrow, but I am so looking forward to adding last few days to the log.
Spanish: I continued with the exercises, two units of grammar, two units of vocabulary. I'll add all my audio to textbook in my mp3 player today, so I can listen anywhere when I have a few free moments. French: I did some grammar exercises (reviewing the future tense, will need the conditional sentences after that). I did a placement test including some audio as an exercise. It was a bit fast and I might have got better result had I tried another language first just to see how it works. It expressed my level as A2, which hurt my ego. And next week (during happy hours -20% in one great bookshop), I'll buy the first volume of seigneur des anneaux. And I feel in love with Dictionnaire de synonymes, analogies et antonymes from Bordas edition. I liked the small book and it is great in comparision with other dictionnaries of synonymes, because of it's page structure which will allow me to write inside without making the book unreadable. Is it normal to fall in love with a dictionnary? Perhaps not, but I don't mind. :-) Btw I got bored with Anki. I am continuing of course but I need to get some time to make my own decks. Perhaps during summer. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 14 of 30 26 April 2011 at 10:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
it's time for my weekly addition to the log. Spanish. I continued with doing exercises. Completed 4 units of gramatica and 1 of vocabulario. I think I should be very sure in the parts of language I've already studied before moving on. I am slightly scarred of imperatives, even though I realize they are logically not more difficult than for exemple future tense, I somehow failed to remember them before. Will do more of listening during next week. And I borrowed some vocabulary materials because I really need to work on that. French I would have never believed before that a grammar book may be created with sense of humour. I was reviewing future tense and doing a few exercises and I was surprised. Exercises like "You're 30 years old man still living at his parents' house and you know that this time they really mean to get you out. You make promises to avoid that." and there are a few great exemple sentences. And it is not the only exercise with an idea there, quite refreshing compared to other grammar books. Started translating wikipedia articles to Czech. I am somewhere in the middle of a very long one. Other than that, I have bought a great dictionary of synonymes and Le Seigneur des Anneaux-La Communauté de l'Anneau. I belive I will read this book a thousand times in my life and in every language I will ever learn :-) I looked inside and found out it doesn't look difficult at all to me but I am keeping it closed till my summer exams. I love the feeling of looking forward to something :-) And the book has become symbol of the summer and holidays. My languages could do with more time invested in them, I know. And I seem to need more shelves for my language books. :-D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 15 of 30 01 May 2011 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I got crazy :-). I have slightly started with my fourth foreign language. I can't mention it before anyone except for this forum :-D Why? Even Spanish got some reactions like "You're crazy. As if you didn't have enough work for school." And they are right.
So, why have I decided to this? 1. I heard some audio where German sounded nice. Including some of the links from Jinx on my thread about German. 2. It is a challenge. First fully self-taught language. Even for Spanish I had some classes with a teacher. And it is different from romance languages, so I fully enjoy the exploring of it. 3. I stoped claiming that it is and always will be useless for me. Yes, I will probably still go to France or Spain more often for holidays and if I have the chance to study somewhere for a few months, I'll hope for either of them as well. But two of the four neighbours to the Czech Republic are German speaking so I wouldn't want to think one day that "I should have learnt it". 4. I discovered there are some sci-fi and fantasy authors I would like to read and they write in German. Perhaps the more classical literature like Goethe's faust will come one day as well but not in next several years. 5. It is an advantage when learning a nordic language. Several Skandinavian authors have been quite recently translated to czech and the books are just great (Larssen, Kepler, Nesbo (sorry about how this is written I'm limited by my keyboard)). If this interest grows, I might be grateful one day for having learnt German first. I started an online course of German. And I started it for Spanish and French as well because there is quite a lot of listening exercises. Apart of that I have done some Spanish this week, a few units of vocabulary exercises. And I had to think again about my learning methods. I cannot waste time on making thematic vocabulary lists, it is not effective. Too much time for too little result. I'll continue with the vocabulary textbooks I have got and I'll start my huge anki project after exams. That should as well get me back to my excitement about anki as well. Not sure why, I got a bit bored with it. Perhaps I just started too many packs at once when I began with it. And I came to my first important question about German. Wth do the make such long words? Are they afraid of the spacebar? Of course I know it is an important part of the language but the first meetings with it are quite scary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5462 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 16 of 30 01 May 2011 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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¡Muy buena suerte y muchos éxitos!
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