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| Tuco Pentaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 4299 days ago 17 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French | Message 81 of 99 01 November 2012 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Wow. Makes me wonder if I should not give Spanish another try ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Roman Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5239 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Italian, French | Message 82 of 99 03 November 2012 at 11:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Course: New French With Ease (1998) and O Novo Francês Sem Custo (1986?). This
last one is in European Portuguese, has less lessons and some different sentences in each lesson and I only have the recordings for the former, so I'll use the Sem Custo as a reference, since I'm as not as proficient in English as I would like :( Estimated Start Date: Now! 11/03/2012 Prior experience with this language: Almost none. I did some lessons a month before but seeing this thread I was deciding if I would wait to join or drop this language until I improve in German or Italian (and English, by the way). Any outside resources you might use: I'll try to not use these. Since it's not so far away from my native language, I think I wouldn't need any. And it would mess the experiment, anyway. Why you chose this language: I think French is a beautiful sounding language (as almost all Romance languages are, minus Spanish :b ) and where I live I have many opportunities to speak French or at least hear it... And I won a Perfectionnement Italien program directly from Assimil so, how can I not like French? Personal Predictions: I hope to reach B1/B2 if I can stick with it until the end of this journey! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jeronz Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 4645 days ago 37 posts - 79 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Yiddish, Latin, German, Italian | Message 83 of 99 06 November 2012 at 6:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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If you are reading this and are not aware, the log for this experiment can be found
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34122&PN=1 (Sorry, can't figure out how to make links work properly) Edited by jeronz on 06 November 2012 at 6:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4676 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 85 of 99 07 November 2012 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Log November 7 update: L'Allemand - fireballtrouble Le Breton sans peine - tarvos Le Croate - Kerrie L'Egyptien - BartoG Le nouvel Espagnol sans peine - cheerbelle7 Le Grec ancien - Kanewai, rahdonit Le Latin sans peine - Boomerang3378 Le Norvégien sans peine - agantik, yuhakko Le Persan sans peine - Tadeo, markustein69 Le Polonais sans peine - Tcham, overscore Le Portugais du Brésil - Kerrie Le Russe - Goindol (2008 edition), Expugnator Le Suedois sans peine - Cavesa Le Tamoul sans peine - seldnar Le Tchèque sans peine - QiuJP Le Turc sans peine – jintro, Kerrie Le Vietnamien sans peine - Bao, shiningstars Le Yiddish – Laitosto, Tadeo Chinese With Ease - sabotai, jingwumaster, oruixo13 Dutch with Ease - Marishka French With Ease - pfn123, melkior79, slidemasterx, aspiringplygot, Chang He, pmcl925, peters, Roman Italian with Ease - Kugel, songlines, Laurae, JohannaNYC Japanese with Ease - ayrrom Russian with Ease - Slothrop, sillygoose1, Aelstome, Luna_Moonsilver Spanish with Ease - jingwumaster, puffin1981 Italienisch ohne Mühe heute - Mani Norwegisch ohne Mühe - Serpent, Jinx Portugiesisch ohne Muehe heute - Frau Doktor, Russisch ohne Mühe - Kronos (1971 version) Türkisch ohne Mühe - rahdonit Ungarisch ohne Mühe - nuriayasmin70 El Catalán sin esfuerzo - Flarioca El Francés sin esfuerzo - July, jeronz Il nuovo Russo senza sforzo - Emme Il Francese Senza Sforzo - Tuco Il Nuovo Russo Senza Sforzo - Expugnator O Novo Francês Sem Custo - fabriciocarraro, FireViN, Roman Французский без труда сегодня (French With Ease) - Vārds 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jingwumaster Newbie United States Joined 4457 days ago 33 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* | Message 86 of 99 09 November 2012 at 5:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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(Assimil Challenge Update)
In brief Personal issues are delaying my participation. Spanish and Chinese, for different reasons, are out in favor of Russian. Money issues. Sorry for not updating sooner. In full Unfortunately I have had a lot of personal issues to deal with right now and have been unable to start the experiment or even purchase the required materials. I decided, for my own little experiment, to take a Spanish course in school to see how well I learn languages by the traditional method. As for Chinese, I decided to go with a language with an orthography that is different but more assessable than Chinese. The language I finally decided on is... Russian. I adore the way Russian sounds (and it looks cool as well). I think when a man speaks Russian it sounds either cool, tough or philosophical, and when a woman speaks Russian it sounds beautiful or interesting. Unfortunately I do not have the money to purchase the current (or any) Assimil Russian course, so I will have to start the challenge late. I will start anywheres between one to three months late (hard time estimating when I'll have the money). I do apologize for not posting this update earlier, and good luck to everyone that participates. May the odds be ever in your favor. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FinnC Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4226 days ago 11 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 87 of 99 13 November 2012 at 4:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd like to join this for studying Russian, but I've already spent a year studying it and
Japanese at university, and probably have around 150-200 hours study for it (I focussed a lot more on Japanese, as I'm spending this year in Japan, and it really showed in the difference between my abilities in these languages). That said, I'm not in any Russian classes while I'm in Japan, and according to the language test here, I barely managed to pass A1 level. I'm struggling to find the time to study Russian more than at an Assimil level, so would it be reasonable for me to join in? It would offer a lot more motivation for me, and leave me not so out of my depth when I jet off to Russia next year! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6384 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 88 of 99 13 November 2012 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That's not my challenge, but in my opinion you totally can:) After all, you've been mostly taking classes. 150h of mostly independent study would've been too much imo.
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