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| roncy Pentaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 686 days ago 105 posts - 18 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish, Latin | Message 25 of 29 28 March 2009 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Unidad 20 1. Primavera (Spring) 2. La caza de la liebre (Hunting the hare) 3. A little poem by Antonio Machado: En los árboles del huerto (nightingales singing in the trees of the orchard) Unidad 21 1. Fuga de invernadero (Flight from the greenhouse). Some flowers, fed up with being locked up, like they're in jail, decide to get out of their pots and go find better places to live, places full of sun and joy. 2. Caza del elefante (Hunting the elephant). It actually was the elephant doing the chasing to start with. It was pursuing a black man in the jungle and we shot it before it could do any damage. 3. Cuando hay niebla (When there's fog). What everything looks like then. Eerie, I remember the feeling, the impression it made on me when I was a 2nd grader. And later on, as a teenager, a poem I loved, by Hermann Hesse: Im Nebel. Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern! Einsam ist jeder Busch und Stein, Kein Baum sieht den andern, Jeder ist allein. Voll Freunden war mir die Welt, Als noch mein Leben licht war; Nun, da der Nebel fällt, Ist keiner mehr sichtbar. Wahrlich, keiner ist weise, Der nicht das Dunkel kennt, Das unentrinnbar und leise Von allen ihn trennt. Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern! Leben ist Einsamsein. Kein Mensch kennt den andern, Jeder ist allein. 16. Las hormigas y las abejas. All(!) about ants and bees. 17. Comemos y bebemos. Why we eat and drink, where it all come from. Plus some advice to be heeded. 18. El dia y la noche. (Day and night) Went over most of the words I'd marked in Miquis. Oddly enough, the ones I thought I didn't really need had stuck much better than some of the more useful ones. All in all I seem to have got a lot of new words from that silly book, more than from the previous one, 'Cuentos de ambos mundos', that I liked much better. Makes you think. | |||
| Volte Triglot Pro Member Switzerland Joined 1208 days ago 3431 posts - 529 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Esperanto Studies: German, Japanese, Polish Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 29 28 March 2009 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes - it's funny how that works. One of my first Polish words was "immortality". In Hungarian, I have no idea how to say 'hello' or 'thank you' (and haven't started studying yet - I'm wrapping up my material preparation phase), but I know how to say 'Jew', 'Archbishop', 'Count', 'continued', etc. | |||
| roncy Pentaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 686 days ago 105 posts - 18 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish, Latin | Message 27 of 29 05 April 2009 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finished chapter 6: supplementary reading about Theseus not wanting to take Ariadne to Athens and therefore leaving her, still asleep, behind on Naxos. The "Translate into English" exercise tells us what happened to Ariadne next. That part of the story I'd never heard before. Classical Greek: Some lines in praise of marriage (difficult) New Testament: Luke 13.10-16 with explanations, in English, about the story. Interesting and not difficult at all. Lesson 5 1. grammar: a) Some prepositions and what cases they take. Mostly revision as I'd come across all of those in the other 2 books. b) Personal pronouns and adjectives (1st and 2nd person singular only. Again, revision only. Reading: The Cyclops (end) 45. ὁ ὅρκος (oath young Greeks had to swear) 46. θεράπευε τό τε σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχήν (α) (Healthy mind in healthy body 47. θεράπευε τό τε σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχήν (β) and how to achieve that) 48. οἱ ἀστράγαλαι (nuckle-bones, used as dice) | |||
| roncy Pentaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 686 days ago 105 posts - 18 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish, Latin | Message 28 of 29 11 April 2009 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is going to be my last log. My girl-friend's probation in Germany is finished and she's been made an offer she can't refuse. So we've decided she'll take it and I'll move to Germany, next week! My brother is taking over my flat and my job, so that is one less worry. And I've already got a job lined up for May. We're going to first have a holiday and then start a new life in new surroundings. I'll put Spanish on hold but will carry on with ancient Greek, otherwise I might forget it all as it isn't as solid as my Spanish. And I'll have to adapt my Elsässerditsch learnt from my grandparents. But then Bavarian isn't Hochdeutsch either.
Spanish I've finished both Sonata and Diploma. Understanding most unknown words in easy context is not difficult, trying to learn them all at once would be impractical. So I just marked them and will go over them, when I feel like it, trying to remember the context that required them. I've also finished reading the "Selecciones españoles" I've mentioned earlier in my log. Quite a number of unknown words of course, but I think I am by now ready to tackle Spanish literature, thanks of course in part to being French and knowing quite a lot of Latin. I'm rather pleased with the progress I've made in 7 months but will have to call it a day as my girl-friend won't put up with me spending too much time with other people's tongues. This concludes my TAC 2009. Edited by roncy on 11 April 2009 at 9:06pm | |||
| Kuronue Groupie United States Joined 768 days ago 45 posts Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 29 of 29 11 April 2009 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck abroad! And congratulations on doing so well in such a short amount of time!
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