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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 425 of 812 28 May 2014 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
Day two. Today I've read a less boring text. In fact, I was quite nervous when I was reading, and that could
affect my pronunciation. Well, anyway, here we go:
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Another phonology tip. One of the scary friends of th is ng. Well, was. I'm not at all sure if I'll
follow the instructions, cause I can just forget about the sound, but I am interested in getting a good
ng sound. Step by step I hope to fix my pronunciation and make it more British. Well, this is a
dream,but that doesn't mean it's impossible, eh?
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 426 of 812 29 May 2014 at 7:07pm | IP Logged |
Day three.I'm not going to evaluate whether this text is boring or not, cause it's not actually important.
I probably made some pronunciation mistakes there, but this is the first text I've managed to read from the
very first attempt. That doesn't mean that I'm not waiting for critics:
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 427 of 812 30 May 2014 at 5:59pm | IP Logged |
Day four. Classics and total unsureness (does such a word even exist?)
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And yeah, at last moments I was both tired and nervous, but, well, it's not suitable to cut it out or to read
again from the very beginning.
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| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4367 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans
| Message 428 of 812 31 May 2014 at 11:35pm | IP Logged |
I never thought about "ng" as being a difficult sound! Learn something new everyday! Listening to your recordings, when you speak slowly, the ng sound is much clearer. Just make sure the back of the tongue touches the soft palette each time and it will be much more consistent.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 429 of 812 01 June 2014 at 10:54am | IP Logged |
Fuenf_Katzen wrote:
I never thought about "ng" as being a difficult sound! Learn
something new everyday! Listening to your recordings, when you speak slowly, the ng
sound is much clearer. Just make sure the back of the tongue touches the soft palette
each time and it will be much more consistent. |
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"ng" doesn't exist in Russian. Most of them approximate the sound by producing n + hard
g.
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 430 of 812 01 June 2014 at 12:58pm | IP Logged |
Fuenf_Katzen, phonology is generally explained bad here. I had not a slightest idea that t in English is alveolar until very recently, for example. I can't remember the exact description of how to pronounce ng that I've read 10 years ago, but it was horrifying and after a few attempts of pronouncing it I just stopped to think about it.
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Summary for spring:
1) Active English as in reading, talking and writing, including a bilingual presentation
2) Passive English as in listening to songs and watching series (Wallander (all seasons), The Americans (all seasons), Daria (first season), maybe smth else that I've forgotten already)
3) Passive German as in listening to songs and audiobooks (quite a little of second, speaking honestly)
4) Passive Swedish as in watching series (Wallander + Eng subs)
5) Picking up Greek as a new TL with just a little of real actions (still not sure if I know the alphabet, I tend to say no)
6) Another little actions with some other European languages
That looks like a little and I'm not that kind of person which will be finding comfort in sayings "others don't do even that little", so I really hope to do better this summer once I'll deal with university stuff.
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 431 of 812 04 June 2014 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
Some German activity as opening an Assimil book and a few tries of
reading stuff from there aloud. During that I've found out that my
vocabulary isn't that bad as I thought (only 2 unknown words in
lesson 16, for example) and that I still haven't forgotten some
essential grammar. For more serious stuff I just have to wait until the
beginning of July, but I think that I might peek in the Assimil from
time to time.
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 432 of 812 05 June 2014 at 4:22am | IP Logged |
I got in my university early as usual, I was really bored and unable to
study (aka read chromatography lectures), so after a while I tuned on
Auferstehen Soll In Herrlichkeit and watered plants in Memrise.
Mostly it was good, I forgot only two important words but in the end
of the session mistakes were coming from everywhere and I didn't
know what to do about them.
It was fun anyway, I don't see how it can disturb my university stuff,
so maybe, maybe I'll try to do some Memrise every day. I have tried
this before, and every time I failed to stand more than a week. Eh...
Sometimes I wonder how good could I be at languages if only I
weren't that lazy, ugh.
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