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 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 113 of 118 05 January 2011 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Hola "Kuikentje", :-) No hay ni que decir que fue un viaje maravilloso, y bien valió la pena. Disfrutamos mucho de nuestra estancia – pasamos ahí diez días inolvidables, llenos de aventuras! Como ya sabes, Costa Rica se destaca por su biodiversidad la más rica del mundo; por eso vimos muchas mariposas, pájaros, iguanas y otros animales! Además teníamos suerte, porque el clima fue templado y no llovía mucho. Si de mí dependiera, nos habríamos quedado mucho más tiempo en Costa Rica. Me encantan los ticos (Y los tiquismos! Tuanis!), las frutas desconocidas, las bosques, los volcanes, y las playas. Quedé impresionado por muchos aspectos de la cultura. Lo que más me gustaba era el ambiente relajado y el ritmo lento de la vida. Espero que podré regresar pronto. ¡Pura vida, mae! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5765 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 114 of 118 06 January 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm happy to see you have returned! You were one of the first here to encourage me with my own language log and I liked reading yours, too. But I understand how sometimes other things must come first and glad to see that you made good progress while you were away. Welcome back!
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| magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 115 of 118 07 January 2011 at 12:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Meramarina! Good to "see" you again. I hope all is well; I recall seeing a post or
two from you discussing some health and employment issues. Is everything back to normal? I took a week off from work to come to Toledo, Ohio, in order to be with my daughter. On January 3, I became a grandpa for the first time! (at the tender young age of 42!) My daughter had married a Lebanese man, so I've been learning some Arabic words and phrases from him and his friends (mostly, ahem, "off color" words). My grandson will be raised bilingually, Arabic and English. I had plenty of time for reading Russian while sitting around the hospital waiting for baby to come out and play. I finished Turgenev's Ася (Asya) as well as the equally unhappy Первая Любовь (First Love), the other novella in my adapted reader. The latter work is apparently considered one of his best, but I preferred the quiet, melancholic atmosphere and the emotional impact of the former. I encountered a mountain of unfamiliar vocabulary in both, as one would expect with nineteenth-century lit -- adapted or not. I'll do a word count one of these days for my "million words" goal. The mom of one of my former Latin students loaned me a novel in French to read while on this trip: Dai Sijie's Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise. I'm on page 50ish of 220ish, and I'm finding it's a charming, easy read, offering a glimpse into the life of two young "intellectuals" during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The French has turned out to be so straightforward that I bet it would be a great choice for intermediate students of the language who want to dip into modern literature. In case anyone read my previous post in which I asked for help identifying the forum member who wrote a "million words" log last year, never mind. I answered my question myself: it was "Doviende." Total word count: I don't know yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 116 of 118 11 January 2011 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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WORD COUNT
Turgenev, Ася (adapted): 9,800 Turgenev, Первая Любовь (adapted): 10,700 Dai Sijie, Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise: 47,500 68,000 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5765 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 117 of 118 11 January 2011 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey, congratulations on you first grandchild! You are VERY young to be a grandpa, but you'll be there to see the child grow and learn, and that will be exciting and I'm happy for you and your family.
As for me, no, the health and employment problems are likely to be with me for good, but I'm doing my best to cope with the setbacks by catching up on writing, upgrading my technical knowledge, looking for the next assignment, and of course continuing with language study. It looks like you are working on several languages. I'm trying to figure out how to balance work on multiple languages. I watched a video by Professor Arguelles recently, and I think he said that language study, in a way, becomes more difficult in terms of maintainance with the third or fourth one (if I remember correctly), although you become a more effective language learner overall. This certainly is true for me so far, but I'll get used to it with more experience. Was this a problem in your studies? I'm not a word counter because I'd count all day. And probably all night, too. It would wreck my life, really! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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