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Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4080 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German
| Message 577 of 812 22 September 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
Ms Diva, why bother with cursive writing?
I never learned it.
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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 578 of 812 23 September 2014 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
Through Russian I am used to that and I find it faster and somewhat
better-looking than common block letters. Well, my cursive might be
horrible, but it's a must for us when it comes to Russian, there's no
way to avoid learning it. I was curious if English or German cursive
would matter, and to me it actually does, considering that most of the
time I choose to write in it :)
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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 579 of 812 24 September 2014 at 2:19pm | IP Logged |
Languages activity: watching Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! in Japanese with Russian subtitles.
No, I am not going to learn Japanese.
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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 580 of 812 24 September 2014 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
Gemuse wrote:
Ms Diva, why bother with cursive writing?
I never learned it. |
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In Europe cursive writing is mandatory at schools. Every handwritten note is cursive.
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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 581 of 812 25 September 2014 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
It was a boring psychology lecture and I just had to write something after I was asked "Are you writing a poem?".
nichts has a crossed s because my fellow student thinks it's a mistake. It was hard to argue after a long day so I just didn't pay attention.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 582 of 812 25 September 2014 at 4:00pm | IP Logged |
Via Diva wrote:
nichts has a crossed s because my fellow student thinks it's a mistake. It
was hard to argue after a long day so I just didn't pay attention. |
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both "nicht" and "nichts" would work here
As to mistakes:
second section, second sentence: er --> ihn
last section, second sentence: sieht --> sehen (or did you mean "alles"? then I would use
"scheint" as the verb)
Edited by daegga on 25 September 2014 at 4:09pm
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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 583 of 812 02 October 2014 at 2:19am | IP Logged |
I think alles scheint would really work better. Details just get forgotten without practice, sadly...
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Language activities:
- bunch of Danish films and there shall be more, guess the common element? No, I am not learning Danish
- Archer (with Eng subs, of course)
- music (as usual)
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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 584 of 812 03 October 2014 at 7:41pm | IP Logged |
I was busy with the socionics stuff today. Having seen an old e-mail (about 2 years old) I have decided to take the test again. I was INTP (Balzac) back then and about two years later it remained the same with some changes in percentage:
However, I see some vital discrepancies in this result, and I have remembered about some discussions here. Does your character depend on a language you're thinking in? So I took an extended test, and here are the results. So my INTP gets changed to INFJ, from Balzak to Dostoevsky. At the very first moment I have found this rather amusing (not just because my uni is named after him and such stuff), but just for the very fact of me getting rather different result. I don't even have INTP in other possible results there, I could just as well be Dreiser (and I was trying - not without some sort of success, I believe, - to write in his style even before I was out in the internets) .
But I also find INFJ's description to fit me way better than that of INTP. However, the tests were rather different, and I had some language and understanding the principle of the answering troubles, so maybe I shouldn't be so revolved around all these things.
As for languages... While waiting for Dream Theater's "Breaking the Fourth Wall" to download, I turned on The Hollow Crown. I had only Russian subtitles, but I gave up soon and found English ones.
I have never read Shakespeare in English before (sort of), also hadn't read much in Russian, so everything was so frrrreaking new, you just wouldn't understand it. I also happened not to know about Richard II's fate (and I want no spoilers about Henry IV too), so I got a triller instead of a dull "read in school" play. Needless to say, I couldn't possibly get all the 100% even with subs.
But what stroke me yesterday and will continue to do so sometime later, when I continue watching, is Old English. I appreciate the idea of easy communication, but whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will... I know that things tend to be simple with the ages passing by, but losing thou does not look like a good simplification to me, it's more like getting literally poorer.
I am just curious how far will I go with it. Will I read Shakespeare, and when, if I will? Will I study some Old English just for its beauty? Will I get so insane, that will attempt to write in it.
Seriously, when I was trying to fall asleep yesterday I have imagined how great it would be to write a play about Mary Stuart - and in Old English, anything else would be boring. However, as I am keen to base it on Zweig's novel, I also need a lot of French. So this is not so serious after all. But I am dreamy enough to keep on thinking.
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