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| rob4languages Groupie Egypt Joined 5188 days ago 53 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: English | Message 145 of 194 10 October 2010 at 1:49pm | IP Logged |
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thanks nogo ,
I'll try Pimsleur , I think it's best way to get (language)'s accent because I tried Russian one and it was wonderful ! about Assimil , unfortunately , I studied french from 5 years ago so that , everything about it is already lost :( , maybe after reaching high level in English I'll study it . thank you very much , and I hope you all good in your life ! 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 146 of 194 12 October 2010 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
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Robert- Good luck to you also. I think you'll find Hebrew very intuitive with your knowledge of Arabic. I'm hoping my Hebrew will help me when I learn Arabic in a few years. I do think that Pimsleur is a good start, but it definitely needs to be supplemented with another course.
Anyway, I downloaded some French documentaries: Les miracle du coran and La Face cachée des fesses. I'm going to watch those tonight. Should be an interesting evening. I'm on lesson 91 of French with Ease. I really love this method of studying. I decided to just finish the whole book and then start over with the active wave. I've got some ideas about how to make the active wave make more sense to me. I'm going to write out the dialogues before doing the English to French translation and I'm going to keep listening to the audio whenever I can. I'm trying to decide whether to just focus on French and Hebrew in 2011 or to add Russian as well. I've been obsessed with the Russian language since I was about 12 and I encounter Russians frequently. I just want so badly to get my Hebrew to a near-native level and I know I could learn French in a year if I worked on it a few hours a day. Maybe I'll use Russian as a reward for doing my French and Hebrew studying. 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 147 of 194 13 October 2010 at 6:52pm | IP Logged |
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Milestone: I used to listen to this Shlomo Artzi cd a long time ago before I started seriously studying Hebrew. I'm listening it for the first time in years now and I understand almost everything (Shlomo Artzi is famous for having lyrics that don't make sense to even native Israelis. I used to ask my friend..what did he just say? The reply was always "Don't learn Hebrew from Shlomo Artzi!")
Anti-Milestone: I read a thread on this forum about someone who is afraid to use skype. That got me thinking about using skype and I realized that I am also too scared to use skype :( For Hebrew I already have my chevre but I feel sorry for them sometimes and I'd like to give them a break every once in awhile. Also, I need serious typing practice. I'm also highly unlikely to find a French conversation partner where I live right now, so I'll need to use skype eventually for this purpose. I live near tons of Russian speakers though, so I should be able to arrange something locally for that purpose. I am sort of shy with strangers, so I have to work on that very soon. I am so tired of being shy!!!! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| rob4languages Groupie Egypt Joined 5188 days ago 53 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: English | Message 148 of 194 15 October 2010 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
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nogoodnik , there are some courses free on net like
http://www.madinaharabic.com/index.html you can use it for free ! Edited by rob4languages on 15 October 2010 at 2:34pm 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 149 of 194 17 October 2010 at 6:09am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Robert I'll check it out.
I'm listening to Carla Bruni now and feeling really happy that I'm learning French. I watched several episodes of osim et tel aviv today and I must say that I was getting annoyed. I think this is a good sign, because a year ago I would watch anything and be overjoyed to just have Hebrew input and to be writing down sentences I didn't know. What really annoys me about Israelis on this show is that they are constantly inserting English words into their sentences to try to make themselves seem cool. Their accents are so bad that I get embarrassed for them and I just want them to stop. But they are the ones on TV making the big money, so I probably should be taking lessons from them. 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 150 of 194 18 October 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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I got into a fight with one of my Israeli friends last night about "hores et habriout" (I don't have a hebrew keyboard right now, I know that transliteration is yucky.)
This lady keeps saying stuff like, "hu mehod madhim, hu hores et habriout, v ani rotza lirot oto." My friend says the only meaning of "hu hores et habriout" is "he's ruining his health." I think it is probably slang he hasn't heard. Kind of like how haval al hazman used to mean waste of time, but now it means both something really cool and also waste of time. I don't want to sound like this lady anyway, as she is kind of annoying, so I'm not going to copy her phrases. Also, I'm trying to get a different job and I'm wondering if I should write that I speak Hebrew. I do have it on my resume, but I wonder if it is hurting me more than it's helping, since it's not directly related to any of the job duties listed in the descriptions. If I spoke French fluently I would definitely include it on my resume without thinking, but I know that a lot of people don't really like Israelis or Jews and I don't want to be excluded for such a stupid reason. Edited by nogoodnik on 18 October 2010 at 6:20pm 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 151 of 194 20 October 2010 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
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I'm on lesson 100 of Assimil French with Ease. I usually do about two lessons per day so I should be finished with the book in a week. I just sort of did a passive wave: I listened to the dialogues a bunch of times, read the English and French parts, tried to understand why the sentences were constructed the way they were, and put sentences and vocab into my SRS.
After I complete the book next week, I will go back and do a quick review of all of the material. I'll write out all of the French dialogues and listen to the recordings several more times. I really want to get as much as possible out of this great course. I'm listening to a CD of Shabbat songs in Hebrew. I'd like to spend some time SRSing some of these songs in the near future. 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 152 of 194 25 October 2010 at 3:36am | IP Logged |
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I should finish Assimil tomorrow and the following day I will start over and review the entire book.
I'm in sort of a frustrating stage with French. Although I've watched some TV shows and movies and read a bit, I'm not to the stage where I'm able to comfortably enjoy native materials. I'm hoping that a review of French with Ease will solidify more vocabulary and increase my understanding of spoken French. I'm also having a case of wanderlust with Mandarin. I may do a 30 day trial to try to get it out of my system. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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