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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 129 of 194 19 August 2010 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
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I watched season two of Haborer. I'm still playing around with the Ora Band book and having a lot of conversations. The French project is off to a pretty good start. After I'm confident that studying French on a daily basis has become a habit, I'm going to work on time management and cutting down on browsing English language websites.
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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 130 of 194 28 August 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged |
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I just received and am now reading, "How the Hebrew Language Grew" by Edward Horowitz. It's really going into detail about the orgins of shoreshim and words and even deals with grammar. I'm not that far into it, but I think I will enjoy it.
I'm starting to think more seriously about aliyah (moving to Israel.) My best friend may be moving back so that's an extra added incentive. What has been stopping me all these years is the fear of not finding a job. I could always teach English, but they don't make enough money to close the month. I would have to have another business on the side. At this point, I guess I just need to start saving some money and keep working on my Hebrew. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 131 of 194 06 September 2010 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
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I've been watching a lot of Hebrew television since I last posted and am still reading the Horowitz book and the Ora Band book. I wish I could find some more exciting Hebrew language books. I have two friends who are in Israel right now, so I'm going to come up with some titles and send them to Steimatzky.
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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 132 of 194 11 September 2010 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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I went to Rosh Hashana services and I was really amazed at how easy it was to read the Machzor this year.
During services I sat near an elderly lady who occasionally asked me where we were in the Machzor. After services were over she asks me in Russian: "Are you Russian?" I say no. I said in Russian, "Are you Russian." She said, "No I'm from Iran" Then she says, "I have one more question for you, are you married?" I say no. She says, "you must marry my son in Los Angeles. He has a lot of money and his own house and business. You would just have to move in!" I didn't know what to do because I really didn't feel like marrying her son, but I didn't want to be rude. Eventually she just forgot about it and invited me to sit at her table with her family. Sitting at her table turned out to be an excellent decision because there was no English speaking going on over there. My new octogenarian friend spoke in Persian with her husband, and everyone else was speaking either Hebrew, Romanian, or Russian and occasionally translating between the languages. It was one of the coolest nights I've had in a long time. Yes I'm a language nerd. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 133 of 194 15 September 2010 at 6:37am | IP Logged |
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I'm making a lot of progress with Hebrew and putting in several hours a day of studying. My 30 day French project is working out also. I've still got a lot of unfinished business though.
After hanging out with a Persian family last week, I wanted to learn a few pleasantries in order to greet some of the non-English speaking people this Friday. So I acquired Pimsleur Farsi and I'm going to do a couple of lessons tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 134 of 194 19 September 2010 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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Well I never got around to starting the Farsi, because I decided to go on a long distance run instead. I don't think I made the right decision, because I got terribly dehydrated the next day during the Yom Kippur fast and got a massive headache.
I love the sound of Persian and I've been listening to a lot of the music. There are also tons of cool Persian people living in the neighborhood so there is much more potential for finding native speaker friends than French. I've also become interested in finding out more about the Baha'is since one of my family members joined that religion. On the other hand, a good part of the reason why I learn languages is travel, and I'm afraid of even flying over Iran. So for now I've decided to not start flirting with Persian, and to put all of my energy into French and Hebrew. I've been trying to watch French dubbed TV and movies but frankly I get annoyed and turn them off because it's still too difficult for me. If I can get subtitled versions of shows, I rarely have problems getting the jist because French shares so many cognates with English. I'm starting to use anki again to input Hebrew sentences from books and movies. This has been very effective. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 135 of 194 23 September 2010 at 10:28pm | IP Logged |
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I took a 16 hour drive yesterday and spent the whole time listening to music and podcasts. I woke up today having all of these words from different languages swimming in my head.
I think I'll be done soon with my 30 days of French, but I kind of stopped keeping track of what day I'm on. I think I'll try to go for 60 days. I also have no idea why I stopped using anki, because since I began again I've been recalling new vocabulary more easily. I've also decided that I will dabble with Persian at some point. I won't be doing it soon because I have Hebrew to learn and then French and Russian to make progress in, but I'll get to it. My "hit list" of languages I want to learn is out of control: Hebrew (modern and biblical) Russian French Persian Yiddish Spanish Aramaic Amharic Armenian Georgian Arabic I've also wanted to learn Turkish, Italian, Mandarin, and Vietnamese in the past but I'm not as interested in those languages as I used to be. I'm pretty sure I could learn all these languages if I worked on it for the next 60 years or so. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 136 of 194 23 September 2010 at 11:03pm | IP Logged |
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ha. I forgot to mention that I also wanted to learn Norwegian, Romanian, Tamil, and Sanskrit. Maybe I should aim for 70 years?
I know I'm posting for the second time today, but I just got to thinking about something. I've got a couple of Hebrew books, but when I finish those, what should I be reading? Now is a good time to do some research because one of my best friends is in Israel right now and I can ask him to buy me some books. One of my other good friends is going to be in Israel in two months and I can also ask him to track down what I'm looking for. So my homework for the next few days is to decide what I want to read now. Reading is the skill that I absolutely need to work on now, because it's getting embarassing. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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