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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5130 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 221 28 December 2010 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Snovymgodom: Welcome to the team! I am assure we will benefit greatly from your experience with Russian.
Préposition: Merci, c'est très gentil det vôtre part. C'est fort probable que je vais en avoir besoin plûs tard. Je suis allé chez Gibert Jeune à Place Saint Michel à Paris pour acheter tout ce qu'ils avaient d'utile, (entre autre des collections bilingues de nouvelles et Le Petit Prince en francais et en russe). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geordie Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4883 days ago 24 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 221 28 December 2010 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Solfrid. I'm honoured to be a part of your team. It looks like you have quite the
knack for learning languages. I will definitely pop by now and then to pick your brain! J'espère que nous pourrons nous entraider dans les semaines/mois qui suivent. Mon espagnol écrit n'est pas assez bon pour essayer maintenant, mais peut être un peu plus tard. J'utilise le site http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/french.htm pour mes accents quelques fois. p.s. I LOLed at G6&%#ø?¤x cedille. Go team Ж 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5130 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 221 28 December 2010 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
Mostly, I've just literally been at the right place at the right time, but I'm there if there is anything I can help you with, geordie! Here comes today's rant. I won't write this much every time, but I have to take advantage of the fact that I am on holiday, It'l be shorter once my life gets back to its normal status of total crazyness after the holiday :) ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES IN MY LANGUAGE STUDIES We all have some points which work against us and some points in our favor whenever there is something we want to do. My personal challenges in learning foreign languages are being dyslexic and having no time to study. Focusing on languages as a hobby next to : - the job as head of the international section of my company, which involves a bit of travelling plus we are in the middle of a reorganization - two active children - a workaholic husband who is totally absorbed by his hobby (steam engines) - a dying mother in need of a lot of care and a 90 year old father whose health is deteriorating - being legal guardian to two children who lost their father this summer - being head of the local rose association, - having a small personal business where I travel around the country giving lectures as well as producing rose jelly - running a show garden and - a severe need to do more exercising means I have absolutely no free time in the conventional sense. My method of studying is therefore called “The no available time method”. This involves exploiting every single minute I can grab to do a little studying, and sometimes do short nights. It is not an efficient method, but if life hands you lemons, make lemonade. On the other hand, it can help you survive boring task or traumatic times. - I’ve got to do housework? Pimsleur Russian, here we go! - I am rushing to a hospital three hours from here because my mother has been admitted? Umpteen lessons of Teach Yourself Russian in the car. - Ate something that didn’t agree with me? Lots of Russian verbs on the wall of my bathroom. LOL - Out walking in 18 degrees below zero to get to work? Russian conversation on my Ipod will make it more enjoyable. - Commuting on an overcrowded train? Revising grammar makes you forget the heat and the stress - Can’t sleep? Hey, a German novel will help you out On the other hand I have a few advantages, like - A job where I get to practice at least some of my languages, can travel and where they pay for language tuition - A mass of resources, both from my days of studying languages, from my mother and from my work - A one tracked mind when it comes to focusing on something I am interested in - A few languages under my belt and practice in studying them - A family who is beyond being surprised at anything I throw at them, and who can actually actively help me practicing my languages at times - A strong passion for languages - And you guys! What have I done the last couple of days? RUSSIAN Films: I finished watching Twilight in Russian, with Russian subtitles tonight. Not that I really caught much of the dialogue, only the occasional word, and a couple of times a full sentence – once I even caught two full sentences in a row (yes!!). But it is good to listen to normal speech, not a sentence created in a laboratory. The advantage of Twilight is that I know it so well that I don’t care if I do not catch everything. Plus it is entirely in Russian – not in English and Russian at the same time. Russian “dubbing” where the film is in English, and then same dispassionate person reads the texts in Russian alongside, drives me up the wall!!! I’ll probably watch this one repeatedly over the year, until I start understanding the full dialogue. Listening: Listened to Assimil lesson 1-9 while driving to the hospital (50 min), and 10-12 while folding clothes (20 min). (I am revising the Assimil lessons I looked at earlier this year). Vocabulary: I put 76 words from Assimil lessons 5-10 into Anki after battling with the system for half an hour. I am still wondering how to add new words into already existing word lists. It seems crazy that I must create a new word list each time. Can someone experienced help me out? I used it for the first time yesterday, and do not have the hang of it yet. Then I revised the words I put in yesterday (about 20). Did I mention that I also suffer from computer dyslexia/allergy? I can just look at anything PC related – software or hardware - and it goes kaboom. SPANISH I started reading a Spanish book day before yesterday on the plain home from Spain, a really big one of 620 pages. It is called “Las rosas de Somerset” (or The Roses of Somerset in the original language). It was said to be in the spirit of “Gone by the wind”, and being an old fan, I went for it, but frankly the only common trait was that a cotton farm was involved. Fortunately I am a quick reader (plus I spent half the night on it) and it was quite a page turner, so I finished it last night. GERMAN I figured I might just as well get going with my German reading, and have just read the first chapter of “EIN NEUER JOB FÜR DEN RABBI”. I love crime novels, and have a huge soft spot for Jewish culture, so I figured it would be a perfect kick off. "Godt begynt er halvt fullført" , as we say in Norwegian (Well started is half ended). May it turn out to be true :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5277 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 12 of 221 29 December 2010 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Solfrid,
Might I just say, all your responsibilities make you an amazing person already, but balancing that AND learning RUSSIAN...wow. There are literally no words I can use to express my amazement. Which language is your base for Assimil? I'm assuming French, but they also have a Spanish (and I also notice your profile puts your Spanish level above your French). Dieses Buch, das du auf Deutsch liest, kenne ich nicht. Ich liebe auch Krimis, und ironischerweise ist meine Mutter eine Polnish Jude (also ich bin auch. Wenn die Mutter jemandes jüdish ist, ist er dann ganz jüdisch). Ich will jetzt dieses Buch lesen :). Wobei hast du es gekauft? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5938 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 13 of 221 29 December 2010 at 2:16am | IP Logged | ||
Да, я согласен: ты -- удивительная женщина! Твоя учеба русского языка очень интересная, и я буду читать этот "лог" в этом году. Удачи, Solfrid Cristin! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5352 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 14 of 221 29 December 2010 at 2:47am | IP Logged | ||
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The "no available time method" (aka Cristin-do) is an art, to which you've brought bundles of pizzazz and creative flair over the last year. I hope you manage to jump the ravine in Russian this year and make great progress in all your goals.
And incidentally, to reassure you that you're not alone in some of these capers, I've got pages from "First 1000 Words in Russian" plastered up on the bathroom wall (and British Sign Language on the fridge too lol). ;) Edited by Teango on 29 December 2010 at 2:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6275 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 15 of 221 29 December 2010 at 9:22am | IP Logged | ||
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You are really an amazing woman!
I am also trying to squeeze my language studies into my life with two little children, housework, a job and job-related studies, but I'm afraid I don't manage as well as you do. What impressed me was the speed you covered the book with! Do you practice any techniques of speed-reading? Удачи! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5130 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 16 of 221 29 December 2010 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Guys - you make me blush. But thank you for all your kind words.
Ruskivyetr: French is my base for Assimil. Yes my Spanish is better than my French, but in the 20 lessons I have read, I do not think there have been more than 5 unknown words, so it is no problem. The "Rabbi"-series is written by the American writer Harry Kemelman. It is not new, because I read it at least 20 years ago in Norwegian, and there are lots of books in the series. I think I have read 4-5 of them in different languages. It is nice, because not only do your get a murder mystery, but you get to know quite a lot about the Jewish faith, and about the tasks of a Rabbi, which is kind of exotic for me. Ellasevia: Thanks for your encouragement, I am not quite up to answering in Russian, but at least I understood everything you wrote! Teango: Good to know that I am not the only one to use all available space for language purposes. :) Dragonfly: What makes you think I manage well :). I feel like I am learning at the pace of a snail on morphine, but as long as I actually do have some progress, I'll be happy. And I do not use any special speed reading techniques, but I was always a very quick reader. When I was a kid I read approximately 4 books a day (regular size books, big letters). Can any of you help me out with any terms of endearment in Russian, by the way? The only one I know is "daragaja". Oh, and it would be nice to specify whether the terms are appropriate for a child, or for the man in your life. They may not serve for both :) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 29 December 2010 at 2:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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