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Clarity Groupie United States Joined 3524 days ago 85 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 1433 of 1511 30 April 2015 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
Hey Tarvos, just stopping by to say that I enjoyed reading (the sections I could) about the solar system and your book supply. I wish there were a way you could find a dirt cheap tablet so you could read your pdfs in bed but it sounds like Mama and Papa Tarvos will bring you a fresh supply. :)
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 1434 of 1511 30 April 2015 at 3:55pm | IP Logged |
This is China so I can find them somewhere probably.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 1435 of 1511 01 May 2015 at 8:14am | IP Logged |
l'art de la guerre
Sun Tzu, better known as Captain Obvious.
Edited by tarvos on 01 May 2015 at 8:14am
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| Arnaud25 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 3844 days ago 129 posts - 235 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 1436 of 1511 01 May 2015 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
l'art de la guerre, ou comment vaincre les ennemis avant qu’ils vous détruiront. |
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L'art de la guerre, ou comment vaincre ses ennemis avant qu’ils ne vous détruisent.
Désolé...parfois certaines fautes hérissent le poil des vieux matous :)
Edited by Arnaud25 on 01 May 2015 at 8:12pm
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 1437 of 1511 03 May 2015 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
Corrigé. Si vous voyez des autres erreurs, n’hésitez pas à m'informer. Merci beaucoup.
Edited by tarvos on 04 May 2015 at 1:18am
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 1438 of 1511 04 May 2015 at 7:33am | IP Logged |
I have spent most of this weekend entertaining my parents who came to visit me in
China. My mother seemed to enjoy this trip but my father was having a bit of trouble
adjusting, to, well, China being China. The upshot of all this was that my parents
don't speak a word of Mandarin, leading to me having to do a lot of impromptu
interpreting. As it turns out, my Mandarin still is not perfect, but it's definitely
reached the intermediate stage. I am conversational at this point in Mandarin (not
fluent, though) and can handle all basic interactions likely to occur while
travelling. I have a decent enough grasp on tones and pronunciation that my wishes are
clear to the Chinese, and in most cases I get the response (though I will miss
details). I'm still working on upping my reading comprehension and vocabulary, and
when I do that (and learn some more complex grammatical structures) we'll be able to
call my Mandarin fluent. Maybe that will be by the end of this trip (I still have a
few months), maybe it won't. But I can at least hold my own solidly in all basic
things Mandarin.
Now work meetings, that's another issue.
Just for fun I've booked an hour of Finnish; let's see how far we get. My brother is
moving to Finland for a few months in the fall; maybe I'll get a chance to go? Maybe I
won't, what with all the other trips planned.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 1439 of 1511 04 May 2015 at 7:34am | IP Logged |
Now I should get back to studying or reading, instead of accidentally double posting...
Edited by tarvos on 04 May 2015 at 8:37am
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 1440 of 1511 05 May 2015 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
Today I can proudly announce that I have started my preparations for one of my goals -
to sit the highest level of Russian examinations that exists on this planet, namely
the ТРКИ-4. I plan to be able to teach Russian in the future, work in this language.
Apart from French (which is the other language I am going to attempt this kind of
thing in; I am fully capable of doing it in English and don't need to prove it,
considering that I already have that type of education). I'm noticing many small
details of the Russian language that I wasn't entirely aware of before (or never paid
attention to).
My Russian itself is of course at a very high level already but this is probably the
equivalent of sitting a C2 exam. So we can finally say that my path to my third C2
language has begun (aside from Dutch and English where I have obviously achieved this
level). I don't think it worth it to do it for more languages than Russian and French
(it would be theoretically possible for me to try it in something like German or
Italian, but in Italian my level is too low and I simply don't care enough about
German to do it right now; if I can do Russian and French I may consider it, though).
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