Register  Login  Active Topics  Maps  

Tarvos - TAC 2015 Pushkin/Scan

 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log Post Reply
1511 messages over 189 pages: << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 77 ... 188 189 Next >>
tarvos
Super Polyglot
Winner TAC 2012
Senior Member
China
likeapolyglot.wordpr
Joined 4696 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 609 of 1511
08 April 2013 at 12:42pm | IP Logged 
Yesterday and today I have spent some time on languages, but apart from the above video
on Icelandic, I have not done too much:

- completed two more active wave Breton lessons
- completed two Hebrew lessons
- made a "yellow sheet" for Romanian present indicative and subjunctive verb tenses and
read through the revision lesson (no. 28).

1 person has voted this message useful



Josquin
Heptaglot
Senior Member
Germany
Joined 4833 days ago

2266 posts - 3992 votes 
Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish
Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian

 
 Message 610 of 1511
08 April 2013 at 6:23pm | IP Logged 
You have a strong Swedish accent when reading out Icelandic, but other than that not bad for the first try, especially if you really didn't listen to the recordings before. Naturally, there were some mistakes, but I only want to mention the ú in "rúta", which you pronounce like a Swedish u. In fact, it should be like a German u. The k in Keflavík is not only aspirated, but also a bit palatalized, by the way.

I think you could do really well if you decided to study Icelandic one day. I was especially impressed by your preaspiration in "ekki". It took me quite a while to get that right. Well, Icelandic pronunciation is a bit tricky, but doable.

Congrats on your job at iTalki!
1 person has voted this message useful



Emme
Triglot
Senior Member
Italy
Joined 5336 days ago

980 posts - 1594 votes 
Speaks: Italian*, English, German
Studies: Russian, Swedish, French

 
 Message 611 of 1511
08 April 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged 
Good luck with your job at iTalki and let’s hope you will soon receive great news from Romania.
1 person has voted this message useful



zecchino1991
Senior Member
United States
facebook.com/amyybur
Joined 5247 days ago

778 posts - 885 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian

 
 Message 612 of 1511
08 April 2013 at 9:18pm | IP Logged 
Icelandic is cool! I studied it for a short time and I thought the writing system was a
bit confusing at first, but actually it's very logical once you figure it out. I found
the Wikipedia article on Icelandic Orthography very helpful.
1 person has voted this message useful



tarvos
Super Polyglot
Winner TAC 2012
Senior Member
China
likeapolyglot.wordpr
Joined 4696 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 613 of 1511
08 April 2013 at 10:54pm | IP Logged 
Josquin wrote:
You have a strong Swedish accent when reading out Icelandic, but other
than that not bad for the first try, especially if you really didn't listen to the
recordings before. Naturally, there were some mistakes, but I only want to mention the
ú in "rúta", which you pronounce like a Swedish u. In fact, it should be like a German
u. The k in Keflavík is not only aspirated, but also a bit palatalized, by the way.

I think you could do really well if you decided to study Icelandic one day. I was
especially impressed by your preaspiration in "ekki". It took me quite a while to get
that right. Well, Icelandic pronunciation is a bit tricky, but doable.

Congrats on your job at iTalki!


It is fairly logical that Swedish would be the language giving me interference. I also
noticed the rúta mistake.

You don't want to know how often I heard the word ekki when I tried to ring my
Icelandic friends, hotel owners etc while I was on holiday there...
1 person has voted this message useful



tarvos
Super Polyglot
Winner TAC 2012
Senior Member
China
likeapolyglot.wordpr
Joined 4696 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 614 of 1511
09 April 2013 at 9:10pm | IP Logged 
Today I spent some more time on Hebrew and completed unit 39 of the Routledge course. I
also completed two more Breton active wave lessons and spent a whole lot of time on
Russian, a language that seems to be improving every day still. I am understanding more
and more of this wonderful language, and although I have a long road before me on the
way to "I speak like a native", it is becoming slightly more understandable every day,
although I still have to pick up on many things along the way (often word choice is
important, not grammar).

BR: Bremañ e fellan skrivañ brezhoneg amañ. Desket am eus traoù kozh, traoù
nevez. Tuchantik e vo ret din klask a tud evit gomz ar yezh, pajennoù evit lenn, ur
radio evit selaou, ha kalz traòu c'hoazh. Ezhomm am bo komz end-eeun ar yezh evit
n'ankouaat ket ar yezh, ar komzioù, pep tra!

C'hoant am eus komz gant ar Vretoned. Pelec'h emaint o chom? N'ouzon ket.

Edited by tarvos on 09 April 2013 at 9:11pm

1 person has voted this message useful



Expugnator
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Brazil
Joined 5155 days ago

3335 posts - 4349 votes 
Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento
Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian

 
 Message 615 of 1511
09 April 2013 at 9:35pm | IP Logged 
Which Hebrew course is that that has so many lessons, tarvos? (Sorry for not browsing back).
1 person has voted this message useful



Golan
Bilingual Triglot
Newbie
Israel
Joined 4242 days ago

11 posts - 19 votes
Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, Biblical Hebrew*, English
Studies: Tigrinya

 
 Message 616 of 1511
09 April 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged 
Expugnator wrote:
Which Hebrew course is that that has so many lessons, tarvos? (Sorry
for not browsing back).


tarvos wrote:
Today I spent some more time on Hebrew and completed unit 39 of the
Routledge course.


There it is.


1 person has voted this message useful



This discussion contains 1511 messages over 189 pages: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189  Next >>


Post ReplyPost New Topic Printable version Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page was generated in 0.8438 seconds.


DHTML Menu By Milonic JavaScript
Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved
No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization.