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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4447 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 17 of 70 21 December 2012 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, those Tintin books look really entertaining. I believe I'm going to buy Le Lotus Bleu.
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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4464 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 18 of 70 28 December 2012 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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The last few days I hardly did any study, because of XMas. I'll try now to resume my French studying habits. So, back to logging! Assimil: I did lesson 32, and took dictation from lesson 2. Dictation seems to be really helpful: it urges me to pay attention to details, both when listening and when writing. Tintin: I read L'île noire. I noticed that, thanks to this comic, I've already become familiar with a few words (gaillard, plaisanterie, gredin). Of course there were many other words that I didn't know but I could understand in context, and that I would not yet recognize by themselves. 
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5116 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 70 28 December 2012 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I learned a lot of my French from cartoons as well. I used Asterix (which I still love) but I am sure Tintin works
just as well - they both have a rich vocabulary and lots of jeux de mots. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4464 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 20 of 70 01 January 2013 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil: today I did lesson 33, and took dictation from lesson 3. Lesson 33 from El nuevo francés sin esfuerzo seemed to speed up; I had to listen to it quite a few times.
Yeah, I'm falling a bit behind, despite I don't have to work these days. Probably that's actually the reason: even though I have much more time, I don't have a daily routine. I'll spend the next few days in my hometown, but I'm bringing some of my studying materials with me, and I'll try to study a bit every day. Next week everything will be back to normal. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4464 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 21 of 70 03 January 2013 at 11:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil: I did lesson 34 and took dictation from lesson 4.
I learned that celui-ci, celui-là, celle-ci and celle-là are variable demonstrative pronouns, which refer to a previously-mentioned noun. On the other hand, ceci and celà are indefinite demonstrative pronouns, do not have a specific antecedent and thus do not have different forms for gender and number. Linguaphone: Did Lesson 5. I mean: I listened the audio a few times and read the transcript looking for a couple of words I didn't get. I didn't even take a look at the grammar notes. There was a thread about odd things in learning materials. This lesson had this conversation: - Oh! C'est un beau bebe. II est adorable! II est beau comme son pere, n'est-ce pas? - Nicolas est beau comme moi? II est vilain comme un singe! Edited by Quique on 03 January 2013 at 11:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4464 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 22 of 70 08 January 2013 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Holidays are over :-(
I will miss sleeping up to 10 hours, but my French studies will be now better served. Assimil: I did lesson 35, and took dictation from lesson 5. I'm a bit confused about `si' and `aussi' (both are `tan' in Spanish). After reading this thread, I think that `si' means `so', and `aussi' means `as'. Thus: - Ne soyez pas si curieux. L'air est si pur ici. - Je suis aussi grand que toi. Am I right? But then, FWT has: - Est-elle toujours aussi amusante? On the dictation I had a mistake with the genre of a word. For most words, the genre is the same in Spanish and French, so it's easy for me to overlook the cases when it is different. I've been googling for a list of such words, but I didn't find any. So maybe I'll have to do it myself :-( These are some words I came across: une assiette - un plato le beurre - la mantequilla la dictée - el dictado le dîner - la cena le dos - la espalda une épaule - un hombro un escalier - una escalera le genou - la rodilla la glace - el helado/el hielo le lait - la leche le miel - la miel le mot - la palabra la poitrine - el pecho le poivre - la pimienta le sel - la sal le soir - la tarde un sommet - una cumbre le veau - la ternera Edited by Quique on 08 January 2013 at 3:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4470 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 23 of 70 08 January 2013 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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My general sense is that "aussi" always has a suggestion that a first something is being compared to a second
something else, whereas "si" merely indicates that a first something has a certain quality to a notable degree, but does not include a connotation of comparison. Those who are more knowledgable than I are invited to chime in. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4464 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 24 of 70 08 January 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
That's what I think. But then I'm puzzled by that sentence in FWT (Est-elle toujours aussi amusante?). I just noticed that the English translation reads `Is she always as amusing?'. `As'??? Maybe my English-fu is failing me here :-/ How do these English sentences differ? - Is she always as amusing? - Is she always so amusing? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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