Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6185 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish
| Message 9 of 39 01 May 2008 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
Good to hear that. Lots of luck with L-R'ing!
Edited by Gilgamesh on 01 May 2008 at 6:13pm
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6382 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 10 of 39 02 May 2008 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
Day 2: Quite a lot of hours of Polish music, and about an hour of L-R.
Between today not being a holiday, and feeling ill, I didn't do all that much. My Polish vocabulary is growing, but not always in the most useful directions. I realized yesterday that I know three ways to say (approximately) 'idiot' in Polish. On the other hand, my grasp of numbers remains rather shaky. While I've seen the words for 'train station' and 'airport', I don't remember them - although I do remember 'river', 'bread', 'elves', and 'orcs'. I keep forgetting 'tree', but I don't think I'll have that problem by the end of LOTR!
I also listened to the first chapter of "The Master and Margarita", which is about half an hour long, as I happen to have it sitting on my mp3 player. I could still understand most of it, though some of the more inconsequential phrases have fled my memory.
I am very glad that it's the weekend now; I hope to live up better to the spirit of this challenge for the next two days, before work intervenes again.
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reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6390 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German
| Message 12 of 39 02 May 2008 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
bacchanalian wrote:
How would one say the following in Polish? "I will never achieve 'advanced fluency' in a language if I spend all
my time listening to music and writing frivolous posts."
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Not true, Volte's been studying. Also unnecessarily mean.
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charlmartell Super Polyglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6187 days ago 286 posts - 298 votes Speaks: French, English, German, Luxembourgish*, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 13 of 39 03 May 2008 at 3:17am | IP Logged |
reineke wrote:
Not true, Volte's been studying. Also unnecessarily mean. |
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I second that. And I'd add, frivolous and of no consequence. Seems Mr. B. can't help being unfunny.
Edited by charlmartell on 03 May 2008 at 3:27am
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6382 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 14 of 39 03 May 2008 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
While this post is frivolous, I shall write it nonetheless.
bacchanalian: Please stay out of any thread I originate, or at least, any of my learning logs. I would prefer not to communicate further with you, as you have been resorting to personal attacks recently.
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Goindol Senior Member United States Joined 6017 days ago 165 posts - 203 votes
| Message 15 of 39 03 May 2008 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
bacchanalian wrote:
How would one say the following in Polish? "I will never achieve 'advanced fluency' in a language if I spend all
my time listening to music and writing frivolous posts."
(No offense.)
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You are a very, very annoying person and have all the charm of a rapist.
(No offense.)
And music is a very good supplementary medium for learning a language.
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