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Albanian and Italian Log...and French... | ||
Tags: Albanian | Dabbling | Wanderlust | Michel Thomas | Pimsleur | Beginner | Italian | Assimil | French | ||
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| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 25 of 35 23 March 2011 at 2:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Tonight I did lesson 12 of Assimil, and lesson 19 of Michel Thomas. I haven't listened to the old boy for a while, and I rather missed him! Watched some more TV. It tends to be Canale 10, which, whenever I'm online seems to consist mainly of adverts for a supplement called giorno e notte, some kind of diet pill. I love the commentator's voice, it's so dramatic, it makes me want to buy some...even though I could probably do with more calories than less xD Albanian I haven't studied any Shqip for days. I keep making breakthroughs in Italian that make it really hard to tear myself away from it, argh!! Anyway, I'm not pressuring myself to learn quickly, I'm just enjoying the whole language learning process. One day I'll probably pick up my Albanian textbook and not do any Italian for weeks... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4994 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 26 of 35 24 March 2011 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Why don't we open an Albanian thread in the multilingual lounge? It could be good to practice it and to intercept other Albanian speakers/students in this forum...
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| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 27 of 35 25 March 2011 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
That's a good idea. I'm not sure how the multilingual lounge works, so you go first :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4994 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 28 of 35 25 March 2011 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd be glad to do it, but I have already tried to open a Lithuanian thread and nobody joined, ah ah! Maybe you'll be luckier :-D
The multilingual lounge works like any other section of this forum. Just, you can write in languages other than English. Very useful indeed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 29 of 35 17 April 2011 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm beginning to understand what people mean when they talk about 'wanderlust'.
A couple of weeks ago I had the week off I mentioned earlier in this log. My girlfriend and I went to stay with her family up north for the week, so I got very little language study done at all. However, her Dad offered us the use of his farmhouse in France...for an entire year! What an amazing opportunity. We talked it over, and it looks impractical this year, but maybe next year. Anyway the point of this was, I have completely dropped Italian and Albanian, and am now totally focusing on French. I'm 6 disks into MT French, and listening to a few French radio stations, plus the obligatory BBC grammar book. It's amazed me how similar French and Italian are, and to a lesser extent French and English. I'm still n00bish regarding languages, so I'm not too bothered about chopping and changing. I will definitely go back to Italian and Albanian, but I have too good a reason to become as accomplished in French as I can. That will obviously involve speaking as soon as I can. My girlfriend isn't interested in learning right now, so I'll have to find a skype partner, that seems a good way to go. I'm a bad conversationalist in English so it'll be good practice all round! I also have a new job, so I will largely have evenings off to focus on studying. Passionante fois pour moi!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5748 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 30 of 35 19 April 2011 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I started disk 7 of MT today. This is the furthest I've got with an MT course, and I'm
realising how much grammar and structure you can learn from this method. However, compared to Pimsleur, you learn very little vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 31 of 35 19 April 2011 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good to see that you've found a language "home" in more ways than one! There are sooo many resources for French available it is unreal. Carnegie Mellon U Free French Course is a multimedia French course from Carnegie Mellon University and of course, there's the much loved "French in Action" immersion video series. Radio France Internationale has heaps of resources available through their website link "apprendre français"- such as listening exercises, le journal en français facile with transcript, les mots de l'actualité and more. I hope to be picking up French next after Portuguese in my goal to be "Western Hemisphere" fluent/conversant.
You may also want to check out my thread about Deutsche Welle's DW Learning By Ear series developed for Africa. They use a "radionovela" format to educate about various topics. There are several en français and the cool thing is that you can download the mp3's and pdf transcripts and also access the English pdfs for a "poor-man's" bilingual text. What I like about it is that it is conversational language. Here's a link for Le football en afrique with mp3s and pdf transcripts. Bon chance du Caraibe mon ami. I'll be following your progress. Edited by iguanamon on 20 April 2011 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4994 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 32 of 35 19 April 2011 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | ||
Ahhh, betrayal! Of course joking ;-) Good luck with the language of our "cugini"! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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