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Tristano’s log 2015 [EN|FR|NL|RU|ES] | ||
Tags: Lithuanian | Burn-out | Dutch | Portuguese | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | English | French | Spanish | ||
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 25 of 177 05 January 2015 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks @s.mann!
I can tell you that I'm quite satisfied of the classes I attended until now. The teachers are energetic, the lessons well-designed, all the students (included the very shy ones) are involved and encouraged to talk. The lessons are completely in French (at least the ones from A2 above) and I saw quite a degree of flexibility to satisfy the needs of the groups. Said that, keep in mind that I study French in The Netherlands, and that the situation can be different from school to school. I advice you to collect informations about the school of your city. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4338 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 26 of 177 06 January 2015 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
Trés bon! Félicitations :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 27 of 177 06 January 2015 at 7:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Merci beaucoup! :) :)
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 28 of 177 06 January 2015 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Je suis en train d'évaluer s'il peut marcher pour moi prendre des leçons d'espagnol sur
Italki. Je peux prendre des leçons complétament en espagnol donc il douvrait être assez immmersive. I'm evaulating if taking Spanish lessons on Italki can work for me. I can have lessons completely in Spanish so it should be enough immersive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 29 of 177 11 January 2015 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been in Paris Thursday and Friday (8th and 9th of January), for a team building day with my colleagues that work
from France. It has been a very intense experience. The atmosphere in the city was crazy. The tension could be cut with a knife. Despite happening to go in Paris in the absolutely worst of the moments possible, my experience has been very positive. My colleagues with whom I never worked with directly, where pleasantly surprised that I could speak French, and I spoke French with them for most of the time, both while working than outside. I also had a little quest: I forgot my two cellphones in the hotel's room (yes, not one, but two!) after having done the checkout and prior to travel back to the Netherlands, I went back to the hotel to see if I could find them. I addressed the guy of the reception in English, that didn't understand at all what I was trying to communicate to him. Since I had the Italian ID with me he tried to speak in Italian to me, assuming that I can't speak French, whereas I actually used English not to be in disadvantage in the communication. Well, his Italian was quite rudimentary... but he didn't addressed me very well let's say... Therefore I re-explained to him in French what I told him in English: that I forgot my two cellphones in the hotel room and I had done the checkout already so it was impossible to me to go into the room and take them. His attitude changed completely and he went in the other room and came back with my two cellphones. I'm quite sure that If I couldn't speak French I wouldn't have received back my cellphones. What an intense experience. Edited by tristano on 14 January 2015 at 2:58pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5480 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 30 of 177 13 January 2015 at 8:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Salut tristiano,
Comment ca va? Je suis desole mais je ne peux pas utilise des accents francais avec cet ordinateur. On est dans le meme equipe maintenant. Comme Jeffers j'ai vu ton nom parfois ici sur HTLAL et pour ca je me sens comme je te connais un peu, mais en realite ce n'est pas le cas. Mais maintenant que tu es sur le meme equipe je vais suivre ton blog ici. Alors, bienvenu sur notre equipe de francais et bonne chance en 2015! How are you? I'm sorry but I can't use French accents with this computer. We are on the same team now. Like Jeffers I have seen your name sometimes here on HTLAL and for that I feel like I know you a little, but in reality it's not the case. But now that you are on the same team I'm going to follow your log here. So, welcome to our French team and good luck in 2015! PM 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 31 of 177 14 January 2015 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bonjour @PeterMollenburg!
J'ai le meme probleme avec cet ordinateur-ci aussi :) Merci beaucoup pour ton message. Je vais aussi suivre ton log. Pour des motivations particulieres cette langue est divenue maintenant la langue que je suis en train d'etudier le plus. Je la peux parler presque courament mais je dois encore augmenter mon vocabulaire et corriger des erreurs de grammaire. J'ai besoin de conseils mais aussi je peux aider en quelque maniere les etudiantes qui son moin advances. Hello @PeterMollenburg! I have the same problem with this pc :) Thank you very much for your message. I'm also going to follow your log. Due to particolar reasons this language has became the language that I'm going to study the most. I can speak it almost fluently but I still have to increase my vocabulary amd fix some grammar mistake. I need advices but I can also help somehow the learners that are less advanced than me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5013 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 32 of 177 18 January 2015 at 1:27am | IP Logged | ||
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A late welcome to team Spanish is still better than no welcome, so forgive me and know
I am glad to have you on board! :-) I am looking forward to reading your log the more that we are teammates in three teams! But I'm curious about your other languages as well, truth be told. By the way, you are totally right the classes at Alliance Francaise can vary greatly in quality. I used to attend them here in Prague for two semesters years ago and I was quite disappointed. One of the teachers was horrible (an old and not too pleasant lady who was making the stupid mistake of not pushing people forward and instead let the group fall behind the schedule greatly, which is a problem when you have a follow up class and one third of the content hasn't even been touched; the other one was better but still nothing that awesome), I wish I knew better than to go to classes back then. But, there are people who were totally excited by their teachers and felt they were making more progress. And truth be told, the prices have risen so much during the last few years that I am surprised people still go there. You have classes of the same quality in most major language schools, native speakers as teachers or tutors are not that hard to find and still some people just pay 50-60% more just for the prestige. And I loved your cellphones story!!! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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