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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4462 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 9 of 70 16 December 2012 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've read a new Tintin book: Les Cigares du Pharaon.
While not a masterpiece, this book was actually enjoyable, way better than the previous ones. I have big expectations for the next one. I have no expertise on art, but as soon as I saw this drawing 
I recognized its inspiration: 
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai As expected, a Google search quickly revealed I was not the first person to notice it. I should mention that I'm reading these books without any dictionary, getting (or not) the meaning of new words out of context. I did read all the regular Tintin adventures (ie, excluding au pays des soviets and l'alph-art) as a kid, but I hardly remember the general plot. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4462 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 10 of 70 17 December 2012 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I finally decided to move to the TAC 2013 2nd Romance Team (tentatively called PaX).
These are my team mates and their logs: Darustet - (French) fezmond - Beginning French (French) tastyonions - 1,000 hours of French (French) Anya - Anya’s TAC2013 (French, Spanish, Italian) Kanewai - (French, Spanish, Ancient Greek) Kerrie - TAC 2013 Kerrie Team Divan Prieteni Pax (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian) LittleBoy - (French, Spanish) Margh19 - My TAC 2013 (French, Spanish) sillygoose1 - My Language Journey (French, Italian, Spanish) Adrean - (French, Italian) geoffw - Geoffw’s TAC2013 log (French, Italian) Songlines - The Peaceful Schnitzel (French, Italian) GRagazzo - Concentrazione (Italian, Spanish) Flarioca - TAC/2012-German T. + Assimil Exp.: cat (Catalan, Italian) And Solfrid Cristin is an "associate member". Although he has not actully joined, I'll also mention emk - French: Taking it to the next level Edited by Quique on 18 December 2012 at 10:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5573 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 11 of 70 17 December 2012 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Salut Quique!
J'aime bien ton log! Je vois que tu travaille dur! Bon courage pour 2013! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4462 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 12 of 70 19 December 2012 at 9:28am | IP Logged | |||||
Merci bien! So far, the only hard work is the French in Action exercises, which I tend to procrastinate :( Assimil: Done lessons 22-28. After listening the audio of each lesson about 4 times and reading the translation and notes, I copy its transcription. I just read this from Flarioca's log, a fellow PaX member:
He got the idea from Mariksha, who found it as a suggestion in the Cortina Method. I'll do lesson 30 tomorrow, so this tip arrived just in the right moment. This cannot be a coincidence: it means I should do it ;-) Linguaphone: Done lesson 4. For me, Linguaphone is mainly a listening practice and vocabulary acquisition method. I just skim through their copious explanatory notes. French in Action: I watched lesson 4, but didn't do the exercises yet. I hate doing exercises (I'd never be able to do a FSI course), but I reckon they are useful. I should find a way to make them become a habit... Tintin: I read Le Lotus Bleu (1936). Wow! Tintin/Hergé has matured. This has nothing to do with the short and dumb scenes of Tintin au Congo. Here the plot is rather complex, and while it has its share of gags, it feels more like a thriller. 
It is considered one of the 100 best books of the 20th century, according to a poll conducted in the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde. 
Warmly recommended! 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4445 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 13 of 70 19 December 2012 at 1:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You seem to have quite the work ethic.
That Tintin looks neat, and looks pretty close to my level, too. I may get some of those comics. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5312 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 70 19 December 2012 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
Tintin rocks. It's a real page-turning adventure for my inner 10-year-old, and there are some moments where it goes beyond adventure to sheer wonder. Quique, thank you for telling us about that giant 1,700 page Tintin book. My wife and I are terribly tempted, and I'm loving the pictures in your log. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4462 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 15 of 70 20 December 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
...until something new and shiny comes by and I get hopelessly sidetracked :/ That's what I want to avoid with this log and the TAC!
The Tintin books (as almost anything else) can be found floating on the net, but for that price I could not resist the temptation. Now I read them lying on my bed, after having a nap or before going to sleep at night. Assimil: So far, I've been aiming at doing 4 lessons per day (2 from El nuevo francés sin esfuerzo and 2 from French without Toil). I started on November 28th and I just did lesson 30, so I actually did an average of 2.72 lessons/day (1.36 from each book). From now on, I intend to do just 2 lessons per day (one from each version). Why?
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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4462 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 16 of 70 21 December 2012 at 1:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Assimil: I did lesson 31, and took dictation from lesson 1.
The dictation went fairly well, just made a couple of minor mistakes :-) Tintin: I read L'oreille cassée. It's not as extraordinary as Le Lotus Bleu, but it is quite good, and has action, lots of action. 
There is this character, Ramón, who is a native Spanish speaker. The way he speaks French shows me the aspects in pronunciation we have problems with and to which I should pay attention. 
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