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| elegia Diglot Pro Member Finland Joined 6616 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Italian, Russian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 30 02 May 2008 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I am trying to learn three languages: Russian, French and Italian.
My main language is Russian because I have wanted to learn it since I first read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. So I want to learn it very well. But I also want to be able to speak, listen and write Russian so this is not only a reading challenge. I may not be able to read Dostoevsky by January but being able to read some magazines would be nice. Italian is tricky one because it is not a language I really want to learn. I just have to learn it because I'll live with Italian family for a month. I have 1.5 month before I leave so my main language is Italian until I come back from Italy. I don't know if I keep learning it after that. I am not sure why do I want to learn French. I might go to Erasmus exchange in France but I am not sure yet. I feel that knowing French is essential and it is beautiful language. I am using some text books, Pimsleur, radio and dual-language books. I am also trying to watch as many movies as I can find. In Italy I am going to speak with my relatives and with Russian and French I am trying to find someone to speak with. Edited by elegia on 08 May 2008 at 4:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elegia Diglot Pro Member Finland Joined 6616 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Italian, Russian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 30 02 May 2008 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I read first chapter from my Italian book. I borrowed it from library but I think I have to find a new one. This one is ugly and that really bothers me. I can't stand text books which are looking boring and the layout is also terrible. Words and their translations are just tossed bottom of the page. They have no order and they are not in straight line.
Today I did 7th lesson from Pimsleur Italian 1. It was pretty easy but I already did it couple days ago. I also started Pimsleur French. I did it twice and it is still hard. I couldn't pronounce words right and I forget them right after I finished that lesson. I might have to do it again tomorrow. I am going to read second chapter of my Italian book today and read the first chapter from my Russian or French book. At least I know that I like those. I hope that pronouncing French will become easier when I practice it more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6101 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 3 of 30 02 May 2008 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Please, tell me that it's not Ciao. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elegia Diglot Pro Member Finland Joined 6616 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Italian, Russian, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 30 02 May 2008 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | ||
It wasn't that. My book is the worst text book I have ever seen. But there isn't any good Italian book written in Finnish. At least I haven't found. If somebody knows one good Italian book please tell me. It can be written in English also. Edit. I wrote about the wrong book. Sorry! Edited by elegia on 04 May 2008 at 1:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 30 02 May 2008 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with your studies!
I'll try my best to help if you have any questions about Russian :-) And welcome to the forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6101 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 6 of 30 02 May 2008 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Good to know! You should find Ciao in most libraries, but as all Finnish books it's most suited for classroom. This Ciao is by WSOY for Finnish speakers - I have seen another Ciao recommended in this forum, but it's in English and published in the USA (or UK?). Edited by Leopejo on 05 May 2008 at 8:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elegia Diglot Pro Member Finland Joined 6616 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Italian, Russian, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 30 04 May 2008 at 2:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I did Pimlseur's French lesson 1 and 2. It seemed to be little bit easier than before but pronouncing the words made my throat sore. I think I try too much but at least I sounded almost right.
And I couldn't find my French book's tapes anywhere. Today I'll go search them from our basement but there is about ten boxes full of books and other stuff. I hope I find soon them so I could finally really start to read French. Italian went well. I didn't have problems with Pimsleur and I think that I could do two lessons per day. I also read next lesson from my text book and reviewed the last one and I remembered it really well. Today's goals: Pimsleur French lesson 2 & 3 Pimsleur Italian lesson 9 & 10 Find my French tapes Review Italian lesson 2 and do next one 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6101 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 8 of 30 05 May 2008 at 8:09am | IP Logged | ||
I have expressed in the past the opinion (and people have criticized me for this...) that for Italian Pimsleur is not as "necessary" as for French or Russian, because its pronunciation - in my opinion! - is quite straightforward, especially for a Finn, once you know the basic pronunciation rules (ci - chi, ce - che, etc.). The only tricky part is stress placement, as in Russian. But better to continue with Pimsleur if you only have a crappy textbook! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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