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| Valamphias Newbie United States Joined 5595 days ago 25 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 33 of 66 06 August 2009 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
I don't mean to suggest that every language is equally difficult (ha ha, no), but isn't that always the most difficult part of the whole process? Truth be told, I really think even learning the 2,000 Kanji I need for Japanese is less difficult than "getting all the elements to stick together" and speak at anywhere near a native level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6422 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes  Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 34 of 66 06 August 2009 at 9:18am | IP Logged | ||
No, he wasn't in the dark by any means - probably what Iverson said, that getting everything polished and completely plausible is difficult. He spent a year in Russia, could read the great works, write essays in Russian, translate difficult prose to and from English etc. He mentioned to me recently that the language courses there seem to have been made more intensive since we left, involving more hours of teaching and greater rigour in the examinations. We would have only 2 hrs/week prose translation classes and 1 hr/wk oral classes (the latter only in the final year). That said, the ethos there to encourage self-directed study. Edited by vb on 06 August 2009 at 9:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 35 of 66 07 August 2009 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 36 of 66 07 August 2009 at 1:31am | IP Logged | ||
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For the record, Andee (I believe) is female.
I did notice the Tok Pisin in her profile a few months back, but isn't that just bush English from the islands of SE Asia? I thought she had entered it as a joke! HOWEVER her provess in Korean is really admirable! She just didn't spring to mind at the time. But she definitely goes on the honour role for her Korean! :-) The language choices of Ashley and Tup just struck me as very cool. Both give the impresion of being quality focussed learners, no fly-by-night, quickfix approach. They come from countries where you can no doubt get by without ever learning any foreign language at all. That really makes it more impressive I think. I doubt I'd speak any foreign languages unless circumstances had put them in my way. Ashley has been hanging in there for many months. Most people would spend their efforts on a more "profitable" obvious langage but she picked Romanian for unkown (to me) reasons, and gives it her best... As I understand it, most people her age in the US would not be able to locate Romania on a map.. Let alone take a lasting interest in the culture and make genuine progress in the language! I think it's really inspiring and who knows what it might lead to? Likewise I doubt Sweden is even remotely on the radar of 99% of people in Brazil. I have to think very hard to recall a single Swedish person I know who has even been to Brazil. Tupiniquim has no personal connection to Sweden but is capable of writing in completely flawless Swedish and reads fairly advanced Swedish litterature. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 37 of 66 07 August 2009 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Actually, he's not. Check his profile and hope that he doesn't mind being called a girl...after all, why would he, he's only Australian and they're quite girly ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5994 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 38 of 66 07 August 2009 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | ||
No no, Australians are overweight, not effeminate. Not even the women. Though I suppose that there must be some fit, masculine Australians. If there weren't, then who'd control the crocs? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6678 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 39 of 66 07 August 2009 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't think there's anything wrong with her Russian since she studies Russian literature in Russian and only gets top grades ;) She's probably just being modest. Her personal blog is one of my favourites! And I second that Russian takes TIME. Edited by tricoteuse on 07 August 2009 at 4:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 40 of 66 07 August 2009 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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ExtraLean, the one Aussie guy I had a major crush on wasn't overweight, on the contrary (140 lbs/ 6'4) so I Do Not Believe.
And he was effeminate, too. :D Back to topic: fairyfountain for the way she strives for perfection. I've always thought that I should work on my English but didn't have any self-confidence. Reading her log makes it seem more possible to me. (So now I hope I do remember correctly that fairy's female.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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