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| pitwo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6163 days ago 103 posts - 121 votes  Speaks: French*, English | Message 25 of 248 22 February 2009 at 8:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Brian,
Interesting you mention that.. I've been getting a lot of crap recently too from my family because of German. I resorted to simply stop caring about what others thing of my hobby and get on with life, even tough it's constantly a great source of frustration. For some reason people in North America seem to look down on the rest of the world. It's like I even almost got asked "what the heck are you doing learning THAT ?!" Japanese was even worse. I don't know, it seems more sensible to educate myself in an important world language than to watch fat people on television trying to lose weight dubbed in very bad French. Anyway, good luck, you kind of motivated me there with your rant :) Edited by pitwo on 22 February 2009 at 9:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 248 22 February 2009 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 22th – Day 13 – Group 1 Vocabulary (+20)
Nouns – Part 1-3 => Complete Nouns – Part 4 => (44/50) => Under Review Nouns – Part 5 => (23/50) => Under Review Nouns – Part 6 => (13/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 1 => (11/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 2-5 => Pending Adverbs – Part 1-4 => Pending Adjectives – Part 1-5 => Pending 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 248 22 February 2009 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Something much better than radio....
Nice lol. I found this (free) website while doing abit of random searching online and its definitely going to make learning Russian a little less complicated than it was yesterday. http://www.russianmentor.net/RussianLibrary/description.htm Basically, the website is a very...very large collection of Russian news articles. Each with native speaker audio, Russian text transcripts and an English translation. Now that I have this I can say bye bye to Russian radio. Working towards understanding these 500 articles will keep me busy for quite awhile. Edited by Brian_N on 22 February 2009 at 11:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5903 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 28 of 248 22 February 2009 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow. Awesome find!
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| rafey Newbie United States Joined 5764 days ago 24 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* | Message 29 of 248 23 February 2009 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I entirely agree with the last post response. Knowing another language (or languages), even if you are not particularly fluent, conveys significant information concerning the way in which various cultures respond to their world and their immediate environment over time. Such knowledge additionally adds depth and character to one's own understanding of the world at large; increasing the colors of one's internal pallette, so to speak. Being sucked into Dancing with the Stars, American Idol and such comperable agendas only gives you 'jello brain (Bush Brain??).'
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| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 30 of 248 24 February 2009 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 23th – Day 14 – Group 1 Vocabulary (+14)
Nouns – Part 1-3 => Complete Nouns – Part 4 => (49/50) => Under Review Nouns – Part 5 => (32/50) => Under Review Nouns – Part 6 => (13/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 1 => (11/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 2-5 => Pending Adverbs – Part 1-4 => Pending Adjectives – Part 1-5 => Pending 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Grammaticus Hexaglot Newbie Norway Joined 5757 days ago 36 posts - 40 votes Speaks: FrenchC2, Norwegian*, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Italian, Russian | Message 31 of 248 24 February 2009 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
Hi Brian, don't worry - I know Russia reasonably well and can tell you the spite is reciprocal towards North-Americans ;-) (proportional to the fascination?). Keep up the good work - it's a stony road, but perfectly doable. There's an immense wealth of material in russian, so it get's very rewarding when you actually read and understand it. Edited by Grammaticus on 24 February 2009 at 4:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 248 24 February 2009 at 5:32am | IP Logged | ||
Yeah I agree, we North Americans have abit of an attitude problem to the rest of the world, though I can’t really talk because there are times when I’m just as bad lol. Canadian with French as a first language...Quebecer? If you are, wow...I imagine it must get pretty brutal showing interest in anything other than French. Anyways though, always happy to help motivate someone. Your welcome. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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