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| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5992 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 8 24 July 2009 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, and my avid readers (you know who you are).
For professional reasons I'm not going to bother going into, I have two months more or less to make my brain explode into an effervescent melody of decent Italian. Now, I have studied Italian before at uni for two years and as we all know that counts for squat in the real world. Nevertheless, I got upto a point where I could talk to people from Macerata for an hour and a half without any problem. I should however learn 'Roman'. Having just turned on RAI I am happy to be able to follow what's going on in a rather decent way. No where near good enough, but signs of my dormant Italian are there. I think that I will be focusing on oral expression this time round. My normal approach tends to be through reading. But well I'll need to speak more than read and write. So new beginnings for me. As always, I'll use Assimil, Pimsleur and MT. I'll try to blitz MT and Pimsleur as much as I can till I get sick of them. And yeah, lots of radio, lots and lots of talking if I can. I would also like any Italians on the board, especially Romans (cos you know, the Romans speak funny :p) to add me to skype. If they so want, name's extralean, I imagine that I'm the only one on the planet. Ready to rock and roll? I am. My brain is going to hate me. Thomas. Edited by ExtraLean on 24 July 2009 at 6:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6078 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 8 24 July 2009 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
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Woop woop go Extralean.
By the way, readers, me and Extralean are racing to fluency in our chosen 6 or 8 Week Challenges. I have a feeling Extralean might win :p well good luck to you Thom TEL 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5992 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 8 24 July 2009 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
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I WILL CRUSH YOU AND THE CORNISH NATION BENEATH MY ROMAN SANDLED FEET.
Good luck yourself TEL. Though I suspect it will be "who falls the closest to 'fluency' at the end of the time frame" :p. But we'll see. Have now gone through the first ten tracks of MT Italian Foundation. It's refreshing to see how quickly things come back. Edited by ExtraLean on 24 July 2009 at 7:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6676 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 4 of 8 25 July 2009 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck! Make Leopejo proud!
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| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5992 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 5 of 8 28 July 2009 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
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Readers Mine,
Had a busy weekend, social commitments. Today I listened through to the middle of the sixth MT Italian CD. I also tryed Linguaphone, I didn't really like it as the first two cd's didn't really introduce anyhting new. I did think it would serve as an alright introduction for a totally new language. Observations: My (crappy to intermediate) understanding of Spanish, is helping with Italian. There's no fear associated with conjugations, etc. Lots of words are similar and what not. Romance languages FTW. After trying hard to stop saying the French 'non' when saying 'no' in Spanish. I'm now having difficulty saying the Italian 'non'. Just a reflex which I imagine will iron itself out neatly sometime soon. Still, something to write a line about. That is all, Thom. ps. Tricours, you know very well that my battle cry is 'For Leopejo!' In everything that I do :p Edited by ExtraLean on 28 July 2009 at 6:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5907 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 6 of 8 28 July 2009 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
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Have you tried Assimil Italian With Ease? It's fab.
Who's Leopejo...? That's a stellar name for a battle cry, lol. Just sounds good. Anyway, will be following your log with interest, I set my goal to 1 year which feels ridiculously over-optimistic but nonetheless :-) Looking forward to hearing more about the process for you - superspeed is the way to go. Best of luck. Liz Edited by Lizzern on 28 July 2009 at 6:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5992 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 7 of 8 28 July 2009 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
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Lizzern,
I have the french based version waiting for perusal. Leopejo is a good man, a very good man who rides bicycles and Italian. He's a member of this forum and #learnanylanguage. For anyone who speaks Spanish, 1 year is more than enough for Italian, well if you're only focussing on it. I hope I provide something which merits your future attention. EDIT I have also started watching RAI TV available here. Not all the channels are available RAI 1,2,3 are geolocked, which I think is stupid and against the interests of the internet. But some of the lesser channels are available. Which is Italian, and listening/comprehension practice. Thom. Edited by ExtraLean on 28 July 2009 at 10:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5992 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 8 of 8 03 August 2009 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
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Unless I have something really really really exciting and exclusively Italian, I think that I will just keep going with my TAC Log and incorporate the 8WC into it. I've been spending too much time on the internet, and this is a way to reduce it.
Yours, Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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