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| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 121 of 133 04 March 2012 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A short update on my German progress.
I watched 2 German language Films: The German comedy - Goodbye Lenin - and an Austrian thriller - Revanche. Very different films but I preferred the second one. Finally got to the end of our list of verbs that take a single object in the dative case in my Skype class. I think we are moving onto verbs that take one indirect and one direct object next. Maybe the logic of the order of presentation will become apparent later. The focus remains on grammar. I'm keeping up the habit of vocabulary practice with memrise by working through 3 lists covering the most frequent words in German. Listening to „Hörkurs Deutsch für Anfänger“. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5694 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 122 of 133 05 March 2012 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've enjoyed Goodbye Lenin a lot and already saw it twice. However, this was before my come back to German. I'll see it again soon. I would say that it is more of a tragicomedy. Have you seen "Lola rennt" (Run Lola Run)?
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5038 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 123 of 133 05 March 2012 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
It fringes on the artsy-fartsy category with the alternate storylines and all; otherwise it's more watchable than most other German films I've seen. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 124 of 133 05 March 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
Goodbye Lenin has an original story line and is definitely worth seeing. I agree that it's not really a comedy. "Lola rennt" is one of the few German language films I have seen but it was many years ago. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5694 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 125 of 133 06 March 2012 at 2:23am | IP Logged | |||||
I've enjoyed both films a lot. I've also seen some initial episodes of the TV series "Türkish für Anfänger". Seems interesting, but I would need, at least, German captioning to follow it. I'm planning to see "Budenbrooks" next, just need to find some 2h30m straight. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 126 of 133 17 March 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I saw a great film during the week - The White Ribbon. I really liked it for 2 reasons: - one because of the story
and second because the narration throughout meant that even those with a low level of German can match the sounds to the subtitles. Highly recommended. Listening: I've moved on to a Michel Thomas German vocabulary course. I've listened to one cd so far. I'd prefer the listening material to be exclusively in German but at this level maybe I have to compromise. I'm still doing a weekly Skype lesson with a native speaker. We've moved onto prepositions which take the dative. Yikes, I think it's going to take a long time to get the hang of these. Felt I was getting to the point of information overload during the last lesson: on von,auf,nach,zu...I think that if too much information is presented at the same time my brain just rejects it. I happened to watch a couple of episodes of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm in French during the week. That was pretty strange - not so much the French dialogue but getting used to the characters new French voices! Happy Saint Patricks day. Some Irish music links: Moving Hearts - Finore Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - Woodbrook James Last - Irish Stew 1987 Edited by Tournesol on 17 March 2012 at 10:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5694 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 127 of 133 17 March 2012 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
Are you talking about this movie? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 128 of 133 17 March 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, my mistake. It is The White Ribbon which is the Das weiße Band. But maybe the fact that I mistakingly put a German word in the English title is some kind of a sign that I'm assimilating German albeit slowly :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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