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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4678 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 41 of 236 08 January 2012 at 2:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I usually hate karaoke, but this is a fantastic idea!
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5184 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 42 of 236 08 January 2012 at 2:52am | IP Logged | ||
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It's not really karaoke, since we were using music with the words. We just sing along. It's a great way to learn lyrics to a new song. I have no problem picking up lyrics for Spanish, French, and Italian - I normally just read over them a time or two while I listen to the song. But Croatian is new enough to me still, and the vocabulary is more difficult for me to remember.
Plus, my girls like to dance. So it just kind of worked out to be a family fun night. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5756 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 43 of 236 08 January 2012 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||
I hate that lesson! Hate, hate, hate it! I like the Assimil program but after many repetitions of the beginning lessons, it's too much. But now I can annoy French people by saying "C'est inutil d'articuler comme ça!" in response to everything. That's much funnier and I'm sure it will make everyone want to converse with me. Now I'm hearing that stupid lesson in my mind! I hate the way the lady speaker fakes a weak, shaky old lady voice. The jokes and anecdotes in the rest of the program are silly, too, so I'm not sure why this one bothers me so much. Anyway, all those languages and two nine-year olds, too? Wow, you are busy! I hope they learn a love of languages from your good example! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5184 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 44 of 236 08 January 2012 at 3:25am | IP Logged | ||
And two jobs. And my TESOL certification. (Which I'm working on right now. Very studiously, as you can tell!) Anna is learning Spanish, but I say that almost laughingly. She likes doing Rosetta Stone. And she LOVES meeting Hispanics at the store and saying "Hola"to them. She knows a little, and I talk to her sometimes in Spanish, but she really doesn't have the patience to be serious about it. And right now, I'm overwhelmed with two jobs, my TESOL course, and life in general, so I don't have the patience to seriously teach her. (Although, I'm finally getting out of the financial hole I've been in since my fiancé died six years ago. Albeit slowly.) One step at a time. Christa wanted to learn Swedish for the longest time. She learned two words off of LiveMocha. Pojka and kvinna. Now that I'm learning Bosnian/Croatian, and I have friends who speak it, she wants to learn that. She has a really short attention span, so I just nurture when the opportunity arises. To me, the important thing is just that my girls are growing up knowing that the world is a bigger place than just the US. There are other people, other places, other cultures, and other opportunities out there in the world. Languages are an extension of that. Even the simple exposures that I've given them (and the knowledge that there are lots of people out there that speak more than just one language) will make a difference for them, I hope. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 45 of 236 08 January 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5184 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 46 of 236 16 January 2012 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, I cannot believe it's been a week since I've updated.
I've been crazy busy with work again, which should settle down in another 4-5 weeks (when I will be going back down to "only" one job). I finished my TESOL Certification last week, and I'm going to start exploring opportunities in that department, although I might be somewhat limited, being a single parent. I will also look around locally for tutoring opportunities working with local schools and colleges. I have been keeping up with at least a little of each primary language every day, even if it's just listening to music or hearing a few old Assimil lessons. One of my "resolutions" for this year, if you would call it that, was to touch each of my languages every day. Even when I'm busy, I can put some music on in the background while I'm making dinner. =) My friend has gotten me interested in Turkish melodramas, and I'm seriously contemplating adding Turkish to my Studies list. I cannot believe I am contemplating learning a new language to watch soap operas! To be fair, it's been on my radar for a long time, and now that I am healthier and more able than I have been in a long time, there's no reason I couldn't start looking at it more seriously. Turkish, I mean. Not the soap operas (necessarily)! Once I'm done at my one job next month, I will have more time to study every day, so we'll see how things go. Right now, I'm working 60-70 hours a week, and family karaoke time nearly every night is becoming my breath of fresh air for half an hour before the kids go to bed. I've gotten Ultimate French - Lesson 7-8 done, and Ultimate Italian - Lessons 1-2 finished. So I haven't been completely useless! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5482 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 47 of 236 17 January 2012 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Kerrie! I don't know why I haven't "discovered" you on the forum before, but I just found your log and started reading it. I myself have also just fallen in love with Croatian and started learning it (and I mean JUST, as in about two weeks ago!). It's such a rarely studied language that I'm kind of obsessed with finding other people who are studying it, so I hope you don't mind if I start virtually tagging along after your log. ;)
I have two questions for you, after having read your entries up to now. The first is – if you don't mind my asking – what sort of work situation do you have, where you get to hear Croatian every day?! That is awesome and I'm jealous. :) The second question is, do you think you could possibly make a post with a list of all your favorite Croatian songs? I've discovered several artists I just adore so far (check out Oliver Dragojević, Đavoli, and Klapa Subrenum if you don't already know them), and I'm so excited to discover more Croatian music. I would totally love it if you would share some recommendations! Finally, I just wanted to say that I love what you wrote about the low-key way you expose your daughters to different languages and cultures. I second everything you said there! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 48 of 236 17 January 2012 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Check out Rawbau, the Croatian national team's coach plays the guitar there:D
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