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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5669 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 257 of 261 13 February 2013 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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As said above, after the passive wave of Assimil, I've been reading the book "Sandàlies D'Escuma" and it should be added that I've been also listening to radio through the internet. Assimil works.
At the beginning of this course, say, during the first 10 lessons, I could barely undertsand it. Let me quote myself:
Indeed, only in Lesson 15 I could finally say that I've understood it already through listening.
Which doesn't mean that later on it couldn't become harder again:
and again
and again
The last quote is from 08 January 2013, but now, only a bit more than a month later, I can listen and understand radio stations, long interviews about different subjects, and even some jokes. Of course, as many times repeated ad nauseam, Catalan is an easy language for speakers of Romance languages, even more so for those who speak some combinations of them. This must be even more true for pairs of even closer languages, which I'm not going to mention because some people feel like this reduces the value of their knowledge. My improvement in German has been, so far, the hardest to achieve. But all languages that I've studied have helped me as much, introducing me to books, music, history and people that I couldn't understand as well if not through the knowledge of their languages. Edited by Flarioca on 13 February 2013 at 2:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5669 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 258 of 261 16 February 2013 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Assimil Experiment: El Catalán sin esfuerzo
From the previous word frequency list, I've chosen the "important words learned through Assimil list". By that I mean words that, for various reasons, I couldn't easily connect to already known words, either grammatically relevant or contextwise often relevant. Sometimes, I couldn't easily recognize either its sound or the written form, but the other one was easy. It means that less than 100 words appear often enough and couldn't be easily guessed. Of course, after the 10th time you listen or read them, you already know them. Now, there are many other not easily guessable words, which doesn't appear that often, maybe I'll do this list later. en - 330 amb - 177 hi - 120 tot - 84 ho - 69 cap - 67 seva - 57 li - 56 fer - 52 ara - 51 aixo - 46 cal - 46 aquest - 44 anar - 41 aquesta - 39 fins - 39 encara - 38 aixi - 32 comen - 28 prou - 26 doncs - 25 massa - 25 aviat - 24 hom - 23 llur - 21 seves - 21 avui - 20 foren - 19 vol - 19 aci - 18 hem - 18 mentre - 16 lloc - 15 llurs - 15 nomes - 15 feia - 14 fet - 14 feu - 14 mateix - 14 res - 14 vaig - 14 llavors - 13 mai - 13 tenim - 13 anem - 12 col - 12 fan - 12 gaire - 12 hague - 12 mitjana - 12 puc - 12 quina - 12 tingue - 12 val - 12 anirem - 11 meva - 11 mica - 11 tinc - 11 vegada - 11 vull - 11 arreu - 10 qualsevol - 10 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5669 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 259 of 261 03 March 2013 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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I'm starting a new log, Next adventure: Mandarin.
It means that the languages that I've studied in this log, namely, German, Catalan and Italian won't be any more my priorities. On the other hand, it's nice to be able to say that they don't need to have priority, because now I can use them!! Of course, there is lots of room for improvement, but the same could be said about English, or even Portuguese :-)) Edited by Flarioca on 07 March 2013 at 2:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5669 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 260 of 261 07 March 2013 at 2:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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So, this is still my log for German and I've been watching this series from WDR, "Quarks & Co". Very interesting and 'empfehlenswert':
Although there are still lots of programs to see, some of my favourites, so far, are: Ungelösten Probleme der Physik Bakterien Exoplaneten 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5669 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 261 of 261 05 May 2013 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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I'm really annoyed about Mango for the HUGE amount of time it takes to be uninstalled. I'd NEVER buy it if I knew that. That said, be warned.
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