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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4667 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 1105 of 1511 02 February 2014 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
This weekend got off to a lazy start for languages. I have managed to finish the
passive wave of Hebrew with Ease but am now forced to complete the active wave. Somehow
my mood is in one of its downswings (those are really unpleasant) so I think I've used
up my energy today (I just spent it composing a German/Korean letter to a penpal, with
whom I plan to exchange Korean for Dutch/English/German/whatever else I can offer that
she is interested in), but it's fun having to translate Korean into German for a
change. Doing this also allows me to avoid the English trap. German isn't a language I
speak perfectly either (but it is quite a lot better than my Korean, and my spoken
German is okay) so it should be fun.
The rest of the weekend was spent on a birthday party and guitar practice (trying to
learn Alice Cooper songs is fun, but takes time...). I am also noticing that my
teaching requests are flying through the roof the coming weeks, and I will be very busy
taking and teaching classes, so I will have to find all the free hours to study
languages on my own. (Fortunately active wave lessons require almost zero time, and I
will have some time to study and write Korean here and there).
But all of that, and contending with the job hunt, means I am taxing myself quite hard,
and I have to really take my energy recovery moments, or else I will feel "wrong".
Fortunately for me, music is still a saviour of mine, so that is what I use to cope.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4667 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 1106 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
Today I tried to textchat in Korean. I hope people will have patience with me because I
speak like a turtle so slow. It just takes me forever to decode and encode Korean at this
point, but I remember when I was at this stage in Russian - all you can do is muddle
through
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5495 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 1107 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
It would be nice if there were a shortcut, but the way you worded that is quite true. The only
way to get better at reading and typing Korean is by reading and typing Korean. I'm so used
to reading and typing Korean now that I can barely recall having to suffer through it a few
years ago, though I got a nice glimpse of the reading part when I was working on Japanese a
while back and was reading Kana so slowly it was frustrating (much like I was with Hangul
early on).
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4667 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 1108 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 8:56am | IP Logged |
Warp3 wrote:
It would be nice if there were a shortcut, but the way you worded that
is quite true. The only
way to get better at reading and typing Korean is by reading and typing Korean. I'm so
used
to reading and typing Korean now that I can barely recall having to suffer through it a
few
years ago, though I got a nice glimpse of the reading part when I was working on
Japanese a
while back and was reading Kana so slowly it was frustrating (much like I was with
Hangul
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The Hangul gives me less problems than "what does that word mean" and then you look it
up and it means "pervert" and no wonder you'd never come across it before.
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| Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6512 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish
| Message 1109 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 9:00am | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
Today I tried to textchat in Korean. I hope people will have patience with me because I speak like a turtle so slow. It just takes me forever to decode and encode Korean at this point, but I remember when I was at this stage in Russian - all you can do is muddle through |
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I'm curious - did you textchat on Interpals or somewhere else?
As for me, the way I got used to typing in Korean was having an English - Korean Anki deck and requiring myself to type in the answer. I did this for more than half a year, I think, before I eventually decided that it was enough practice and abandoned the deck.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4667 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 1110 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 9:38am | IP Logged |
Evita wrote:
tarvos wrote:
Today I tried to textchat in Korean. I hope people will
have patience with me because I speak like a turtle so slow. It just takes me forever
to decode and encode Korean at this point, but I remember when I was at this stage in
Russian - all you can do is muddle through |
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I'm curious - did you textchat on Interpals or somewhere else?
As for me, the way I got used to typing in Korean was having an English - Korean Anki
deck and requiring myself to type in the answer. I did this for more than half a year,
I think, before I eventually decided that it was enough practice and abandoned the
deck. |
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This was om Skype but we met on Interpals, yes. She was talking about somebody else
(the gods be praised). I can't type quickly, but it's a matter of getting used to it. I
actually prefer typing Korean on my phone with Swype :)
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5495 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 1111 of 1511 04 February 2014 at 12:44pm | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
The Hangul gives me less problems than "what does that word mean" and
then you look it up and it means "pervert" and no wonder you'd never come across it before.
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Strangely enough I picked up that word (변태) fairly early on. According to Anki I created that
vocabulary card on Feb 23, 2011 (wow...nearly 3 years ago) after picking it up from an
episode of 지붕뚫고 하이킥 (a Korean sitcom). The same word can also mean (and
apparently originally means) "metamorphosis" (and it isn't just a homonym as they use the
same Hanja), so I have an Anki card with that meaning as well.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4667 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 1112 of 1511 05 February 2014 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
Trouvez les prépositions et les locutions prépositives: (y en a 13)
À l'instar des finlandais, on propose de construire un nouveau parc Angry Birds au lieu
d'une station d'épuration des eaux sur notre terrain communal libéré.
Par suite de la destruction du quartier, en face de notre manque d'eau potable, nous
avons reçu autant de plaintes sur cette manque, étant donné que tous les habitants
souffrent de déshydratation, en dépit de leur grands canisters d'eau fraîche importé
aux Pays-Bas, en signe de la réputation néerlandaise pour faire potable tous les
liquides méconnus.
Du côte de la grande dame de ville Mme Deplan, nous devons construire le parc - pour
avoir un divertissement pour les gens mal nourris, et doivent le situer le long de la
rivière Gramadan, de par sa capacité de répliquer des eaux non-salés chaque année, qui
peuvent nous servir comme source.
Edited by tarvos on 06 February 2014 at 11:49pm
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