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| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7168 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 9 of 146 24 December 2009 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
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Gladly! I like to listen to a lot of different music, but these are the results of random YouTube hopping. I still need some harder Russian rock, folk music, and cheesy pop in my life, so if you find anything, let me know! But these are some in the genres I've found so far (again, I at least was impressed because it was random clicking, and I was like, "Hey, I like this! And this! And this one too!" This rarely happens to me with German. Anyhow.):
Алла Пугачева и Максим Галкин - Будь Или Не Будь-pop, folksy земфира блюз zемфира земфира -mellow alternative Ю-Питер - Девушка По Городу –more upbeat Песня идущего домой (В.Бутусов)-more upbeat alternative смысловые галлюцинации зачем топтать мою любовь-mellow Агата Кристи – Триллер-kind of weird 80s feel? Премьера нового клипа группы ВИА Гра-pop dance Saha Zamorina - Pogasi Sve4u (Club RMX)-dance Mc Жан & Dj Riga До Свидания Enner Sence Remix 2009-dance БАНД`ЭРОС "ПОЛОСЫ"-pop (w/ R&B influence?) (Has the honor of containing the first Russian phrase that I recognized in a song; the woman sings it. Keeping in mind that I'm a complete beginner, it's pretty easy to figure out. :) БАНД`ЭРОС "Коламбия Пикчерз не представляет"-Russian gets diirrrty pop Ассаи – Голос-old-school feel hip hop Баста и Город 312 – Обернись-mellow rock-hip hop fusion Новый клип Павла Воли - "Маме"-mellow hip hop 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7168 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 10 of 146 25 December 2009 at 1:11am | IP Logged |
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Today, 24.12.09, was a German day.
German: -section C of chapter 2 in the Oberstufenbuch (Four sections, A-D, per chapter) -writing sample on Lang-8 -read a few articles online, nothing heavy -reviewed "Towns and Buildings" vocabulary in "Using German Vocabulary" Spanish: -one audio clip from LingQ on the CDC and health -one writing sample on Lang-8 And in a few hours I'm going to a Christmas party! Happy holidays everyone! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7168 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 11 of 146 26 December 2009 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday, 25.12.09, was CHRISTMAS! And a Spanish day.
Spanish: -chapter 3 of Advanced Spanish Grammar with exercises -one audio clip: Entrevistas cubanas #4 (a series on YouTube) (and note for future self: You understood very little beyond the theme of the program ("What sort of music do you like?") and a few words that were obviously different types of music.) -reviewed "Letters and Correspondence" in Must-Know Spanish -listened to two chapters of La rebelión de Atlas Unfortunately, my laptop's charger cable died, so all of the visual Russian content (Princeton textbook, etc.) is unavailable until the new one arrives (I'm typing this on my sister's computer). But today I'll double up on Pimsleur lessons and at least listen to another unit of Pronouncing Russian Correctly, both of which I put on my iPod. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7168 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 12 of 146 27 December 2009 at 8:57am | IP Logged |
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Today, 26.12.09, was a Russian day. Ostensibly. My best friend from Germany is arriving tomorrow (!), so today was all about cleaning the house. But ahh, three weeks with a real live German in the house! I will have to take care that I speak some English with him though, as it's his first time in the States and it would be rather unfair for him to not have the full experience, right? We'll see...
Russian: -I did the two Pimsleur lessons, but it doesn't mean that I liked them. Pimsleur, while brilliant for the spaced repetition, is dull to me. -I also did another section of "Pronouncing Russian Correctly." Spanish: -one audio clip from LingQ: "Una encuesta por teléfono" (again, note that your audio comprehension is weak, weak, weak! Even after three listens and having read the transcript, you were still having difficulties parsing the dialogue. Just as a note to your future self.) -one writing sample on Lang-8 German: -one writing sample on Lang-8 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5473 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 13 of 146 27 December 2009 at 11:35am | IP Logged |
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Wow! I am impressed both by your goals in your target languages and by your knowledge of how to learn them. I didn't know either lang-8 or LingQ. Could you give me a refferral code for lingQ by the way? I suppose it's better to have one?
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| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5612 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 14 of 146 28 December 2009 at 12:23pm | IP Logged |
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Wow you still managed quite a bit of study over Xmas :) I hope you have an awesome time with your friend! My German friend was supposed to be coming to stay too this week, but he may end up not travelling after all :( He said it's too far to drive to Switzerland~!
I also find Pimsleur unbearably dull... but yay for rocking the Russian :) And are entrevistas cubanas in Cuban accent? I must say neither I or my Argentinean understand much of the Cubans! Haha :) The last movie we watched set in Cuba I put on English subs and Pablo was like "Ah I'm so glad we have subtitles! ¡¡No entiendo una goma!!" So I'm glad it's not just me ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stryozyk Newbie United States Joined 5473 days ago 39 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 146 28 December 2009 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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I really enjoy reading your log and appreciate the Russian music recommendations! (What is "Pronouncing
Russian Correctly", by the way? I found a podcast called "The Russian Sound System" on iTunes which seems good, though I haven't gone through it yet.) I like how thorough your reports are...I'll have to take a leaf out of your book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7168 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 16 of 146 28 December 2009 at 6:57pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday, 27.12.09, was a Russian day that turned into a German day.
I continued cleaning the basement (yes, it was that much of a disaster) so that my German friend would have a place to sleep. I reviewed a Pimsleur lesson and a few conversations from "Russian Audio" but then I found some old German books that I had put in storage...and it was all over. I switched over to German songs and read four stories in this classroom reader. They were a little messed up. One had the neighborhood children scaring a blind organ grinder so much that he broke his organ and cried. Another had a fat kid (described that way numerous times by the author) whose father finally told him, "Look, some people in this world are just fat. You are one of them." And so the child goes out to play and is happy that the kids call him "Fettkloß" (roughly, "fatty")! Still another had a mentally slow child asking for flower seeds so that he could plant a garden for his terminally ill, bedridden mother(!). The main character gives the kid weed seeds instead. (Not marijuana, silly, real weeds.) I don't even know what the moral was supposed to be. But they were interesting. And now my friend is here, and I was worried that he would just want to speak in English all the time (because when I go to Germany, it is strictly German only). But he, haha, is more than happy to speak in German. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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