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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4653 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 409 of 656 28 June 2012 at 3:02am | IP Logged |
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And I've thought that hardly anyone writes in this thread... it must have been the mechanism of repression.
I have to do something with that, in other case I'll end up with the honorific least number! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4699 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 410 of 656 28 June 2012 at 9:40am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: French CHALLENGE: Half (50 films, 50 books) CURRENT LEVEL: B1 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 4980 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 411 of 656 29 June 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
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(wow I was first and last post on the previous page)
Japanese Books 1. HunterxHunter treasures vol.1 manga 788 pages=157 pages 2. HunterxHunter treasures vol.2 manga 520 pages=104 pages Japanese Movies 1. となりのトトロ 2.魔法の宅急便 3.崖の上のポニョ French Books 1. Easy French Reader 100 pages 2. Harry Potter à L'école des Sorciers 305 pages French Movies 1. Le Roi Lion 2. Mon Voisin Totoro 3. Les Chroniques de Narnia : L'Armoire Magique 4. Ponyo sur la Falaise One thing I'm noticing with the movies I watch in Japanese and French is that even though my French is far worse than my Japanese I pick up on things I missed the first time through. I don't know if that's just because it's the second time or because, as and English speaker, French is far more transparent to me than Japanese. French Writings 1. Présenter Moi-Même(58 words) With all my reading recently I've started to talk to myself a little in French, so I felt confident enough and I got off work early so I had enough energy to write my first piece of writing. I decided to start with a self introduction because it's easy and I didn't know what else to write about. I can't get to 200 words yet, but for now I'll write short bits that will start to add up and eventually I'm sure I'll be writing 500 words or more at a time. I tried some difficult sentence constructions so hopefully I'll get lots of corrections. My verbs are a complete mess, as is my spelling, so I know what I have to work on during my study time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5265 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 412 of 656 29 June 2012 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
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Update #16
72/100 Films Movies "20h17 Rue Darling" (2003) "Polytechnique" (2009) "Starbuck" (2011) "Les doigts croches" (2009) "La grande séduction" (2003) "Le bonheur de Pierre" (2009) "Le dîner de cons" (1998) TV Series "Apparences" (10 episodes of 45 min) "19-2", Season 1 (10 Episodes of 45 min) "30 Vies", Season 1-2 (120 episodes of 22 min) "Toute la vérité", Seasons 1-3 (50 episodes of 45 min) **** After 5 light comedies something different... 20h17 Rue Darling Gérard (Luc Picard), an alcoholic out of work journalist leaves his apartment briefly to help one of his ex-wives and with some plumbing and upon returning finds his entire building gone in what is believed to be a natural gas explosion. He becomes obsessed with researching the lives of his six dead neighbors, wondering why he survived and not them and reflecting on his own life. and if thats not dark enough... Polytechnique A true story based on the events of Dec 6 1989 at École Polytechnique de Montréal when an unstable misogynist who blamed his unhappiness on feminists entered a class at the engineering school with a Ruger mini-14 rifle, demanded that all male students leave the class and then shot all the females. The director chose to film in black and white to minimize the impact of blood and he wanted to release the DVD with both English and French versions simultaneously for all of Canada by using fully bilingual actors instead of dubbing. The events are seen first from the perspective of one of the male students who left the class and ends up committing suicide out of guilt for not having stayed. The film then rewinds to show the events as seen by a female student who was in the class but survived. The massacre (14 women) lead to the formation of the "Long gun registry" in Canada which was just dismantled this year as a campaign promise by the current government. Québec is now suing the federal government to retain the data. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5587 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 413 of 656 30 June 2012 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
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Update: German
Books – 73 pages - grammar book (1/2-1/5 of pages counted, considering German text only) 29 pages - “german for 30 days” (1/3 page) 18 pages -“ Methode90“:Unites 12-18 (1/2 pages) 26 pages films – 135 minutes - “ Galileo” 60 minutes - Other TV watching 75 minutes writing 0 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4416 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 414 of 656 01 July 2012 at 7:55am | IP Logged |
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LANGUAGE: German CHALLENGE: Full CURRENT LEVEL: A2+/B1- 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5189 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 415 of 656 01 July 2012 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
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Okay, so I have moved my paste.it over here for the time being due to computer problems (which should hopefully be fixed next week).
Here is the June update for my Super Challenges. Spanish audiobooks, movies, TV shows: 9/100 6. Stargate SG1, (Enigma) (Solitudues), subs & dubs, finished June 15, 2012 7. Stargate SG1, (There but for the Grace of God) (Politics), EN audio, SP subs, June 19, 2012 8. Toy Story, film, SP dub, SP subs, June 26, 2012 9. Stargate SG1, (Within the Serpent's Grasp - 1) ( ------), EN audio, SP subs, ---------- books: (4.5/100) 1. Harry Potter y La Piedra Filosofal, finished June 4, 2012, (254 pages) 2. Charlie y la Fábrica de Chocolate, finished June 26, 2012 (198 pages) writings: (9/100) 2-9. Assimil Using Spanish (Advanced) Lesson 2-9, French audiobooks, movies, TV shows: (20/100) 13. Stargate SG1 (La Dernière Chance, Partie 1 & 2), FR audio, EN subs, June 7, 2012 14. Stargate SG1 (Redemption, Part 1 & 2), FR andio, EN subs, June 10, 2012 15. Stargate SG1 (Descent, Nightwalkers) FR audio, EN subs, June 11, 2012 16. Stargate SG1 (Frozen, Abyss) FR audio, EN subs, June 12, 2012 17. Stargate SG1 (Shadow Play, The Other Guys) FR audio, EN subs, June 13, 2012 18. Stargate SG1 (Allegiance, Cure) FR audio, EN subs, June 15, 2012 19. Stargate SG1 (Disclosure, Momento) FR audio, EN subs, June 19, 2012 20. Le Hérisson (The Hedgehog), FR audio, EN subs, June 27, 2012 writings: (26.5/100) 5-21. Assimil French with Ease Lesson 80-99 22-26.5. Assimil Using French (Advanced) Lesson 01-10 German audiobooks, movies, TV shows: (1/100) 1. Stargate SG1 (Moebius Part 1 & 2), DE audio, EN subs, June 9, 2012 writings: (4/100) 1.5-4. Assimil German with Ease Lesson 45-52 Italian writings: (4.5/100) 1-4.5. Assimil Italian with Ease Lesson 24-32 Croatian audiobooks, movies, TV shows: (4/100) 1. The Lion King (Kralj Lavova), Croatian dub, English subs, June 21, 2012 2. Stargate SG1 (The Nox), Eng audio, Croation subs, June 22, 44 mins -- Stargate SG1 (Thor's Hammer), Eng audio, Croatian subs, June 23, 2012, 44 mins 3. The Lion King (Kralj Lavova), Croatian dub, English subs, June 23, 2012 4. Stargate SG1 (There But for the Grace of God), Eng audio, Croatian subs, June 23, 2012, 44 mins -- Stargate SG1 (Death Knell), Eng audio, Croatian subs, June 28, 2012 I have also added a Half (films only) Challenge for Turkish as an excuse to go back to watching Turkish dramas without the guilt. It's like giving yourself permission to eat chocolate without feeling guilty about it! (Well, that, and Turkish has been on my hit list for a long time, and I was surprised how much I was learning when I was watching them.) I will probably add Turkish to my structured study next year. Right now, I am focusing on finishing the four Assimil courses I'm working on by the end of the summer. I also added a Half Challenge for Russian. (Which I can blame on Cristina, maydayayday, Serpent, and AnyaPop. They have a mental hospital, and they invited me. And who am I to turn down a good language nerd party?) For me, it was a commitment to Russian being one of my next focus languages. I ordered the English-based Assimil Russian course last week, and I'm expecting it to arrive this week. I started counting my Assimil writings as only half a writing for the Challenges. I copy the dialog and both of the exercises. Some of them are closer to 200 words, others are not. Either way, I will stop counting "copying" once I get to 50 (half the goal) for the writing part of the challenge. Since I'm closer to a beginner for Italian and German (and with the complexities of French orthography), I think this corresponds nicely with my goals for all three languages. Counting them as half will bring me to about 50 writings for each language by the end of the course, so it works out nicely. The Spanish writing with Assimil is a different story. Most of those dialogs are a lot longer than 200 words. In fact, I have thought about not copying them because they are so long. (Each lesson takes 2-3 pages in my spiral notebook to copy.) But I know I learn better by doing that, so I will continue as long as my hand doesn't fall off! I'm really frustrated with my listening comprehension in Spanish. I can read Spanish with very little problem, but unless someone is talking slowly or I have the text in front of me, my brain can't keep up with what I hear. I watched Toy Story the other night. I started watching with only Spanish audio, and I was missing too much. As soon as I put the Spanish subs on though, I was fine. Any suggestions for dealing with this? For anyone in the US, check out Schoenhofs for Assimil and other target language books. I just got three Assimil books (no audio) for $50 with free shipping. Assimil Russian, Perfeccionnement Italien, and Hungarian with Ease. I only got the Hungarian book because it bumped my order over $50 and gave me free shipping. :D Edited by Kerrie on 01 July 2012 at 3:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5033 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 416 of 656 01 July 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
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I'm posting an update mostly to let others know I'm still participating. It's been a slow 2 weeks, but I did get
some done. Summer activities with my little girl take a bite out of my language time. Libros: (5.4/50) 1. La Casa en Mango St. (112) 2. No Bajes al Sotano (121) 3. La Piramide Roja (still reading, 309 pages) I did listen to some podcasts, but won't post them until I have a whole unit. Guess if you look at it like I've completed 10% of the reading, that's not so bad. I must say, reading a children's book is hard for me. Of course there's the vocabulary, but I'm learning that. Still look up lots of words & write them down. It's more a lack of enthusiasm for the content, even though it's a challenging enough level. Feel like I have to move on to more relevant content for myself for the next book, even if the language is more difficult. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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