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| Maïwenn Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4161 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Mandarin, Breton | Message 41 of 53 01 March 2013 at 9:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Haha I know, but it's not that much shorter!
Brezhoneg Assimil 38. Emaon o skrivañ ul lizher da ma mignoned e Breizh. Bremañ eo ar vakansoù, met ezhomm am eus labourat. Deutsch Ich lese Der Sandmann. Am letzten Freitag habe ich mit Freunde "Ein Wochenende in Berlin" gespielt. Wir haben viel über Berlin gelernt. [U］中文／中国话［/U] I went to a beginner's Chinese atelier last week and it became quickly apparent that I was a bit too advanced. I don't think I would be ready for the A1/A2 atelier just yet. I realize that I have a major advantage with Chinese because I studied it before, but even so it amazed the difficulty that others had with reproducing sounds the teacher made. We also worked exclusively with one sentence the whole time and it was apparently a very difficult concept for the other classmates. 台湾在中国的东南面。 Taiwan [location] China [possessive] South East [orientation]. Basically, all we had to do was change out the underlined words. Mini-March goals (per usual, it's going to be a busy month): Read through a Breton article. Read at least 5 pages in German a day. Go see a German movie. 1 Chinese Assimil lesson/day and keep up with all of the characters. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4499 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 42 of 53 01 March 2013 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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By the way, Maiwenn, how do you like Mandarin? Mine is nonexistent - Mandarin is one of
the languages I should get round to doing someday but have never even looked at. Do you find it difficult? And as an English speaker, what are the main obstacles? (I usually use English materials because Dutch ones tend to be terrible). Edited by tarvos on 01 March 2013 at 5:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4414 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 43 of 53 03 March 2013 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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How did you like "Ein Wochenende in Berlin" as a game? Was it fun to play or more of an educational tool? I have seen some advertisements for it but am wary. Maybe it is just a bad memory from my schooldays, but I have an aversion to educational games, even though I would love to find an interesting game to play that would give my language skills a boost as a painless side effect of having a great time.
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| Maïwenn Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4161 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Mandarin, Breton | Message 44 of 53 06 March 2013 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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@tarvos
I spent a while trying to think about how to respond to this. It's been a long time since Chinese was really new for me and I don't remember it ever being particularly difficult (except for learning characters). Probably the most difficult part has been pronunciation, especially since the accents seem to vary quite a lot across speakers. I had a weekly class in high school with four teachers from two different regions (one was in the North and one was in the South and sadly I can't remember where exactly) and I mostly practiced with my best friend's family who was from yet another region. This time around, I'm actually quite liking learning characters. It's something I can mentally practice even in class without too much interference (as sometimes I'm just trying to commit characters to motor memory). @BAnna Yeahhh it was okay. I don't think it'd be worth buying, honestly. I figure if I wanted a game to really practice a language, I would find a game in the language that actual people would play and not just language learners. It wasn't too bad, but seemed to drag on at the end which is coloring my judgement somewhat (we finished after 2am I think). On the other hand, it was a game chosen and owned by a German person. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4636 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 45 of 53 06 March 2013 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Just a mini-correction from my side. I hope your studies are going well. Viele Grüße! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5348 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 46 of 53 16 March 2013 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
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It's so cool to see dialogue on your thread in Breton... I could be way off here, but I'm guessing your last line said something about Emaon writing a letter to friends in Brittany, and Bremañ needing to work even though he's on holiday. Was I even close?? It looks like you're already well on the way to completing that first half of the passive wave through Assimil. Keep up the good work!
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4499 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 47 of 53 16 March 2013 at 10:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Hahahaha, no, she said she wanted to write a letter to her friends in Brittany - emaon is a verb form indicating first person. Bremañ means "today" quite simply.
You got the resr correct :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5348 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 48 of 53 17 March 2013 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Wahey...closer than anticipated! I still think Emaon and Bremañ would make a great couple. ;)
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