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| BloodyChinese Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4175 days ago 39 posts - 61 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 161 of 457 19 January 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
What struck me was that even the "umms" and laughing sounded Korean(to my untrained ears). I couldn't hear a German accent at all. Evita, see this challenge as a way to get you to speak :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6363 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish | Message 162 of 457 19 January 2013 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The main challenge for me will be to write something because I haven't written anything in Korean apart from single sentences as grammar exercises. What I will produce will probably be full of errors and unnatural ways of saying things so I don't think it's something I should read aloud. Oh, I got an idea. I will try reading a text from my textbook, it will be a real challenge to try to read it more or less fluently. My accent will probably be horrible, oh well.
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| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 4941 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 163 of 457 19 January 2013 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sounds great and not German at all (that's the only thing I can comment on... I don't understand Korean)! Interesting introduction, too. Have you tried to play any traditional Korean musical instruments? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5346 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 164 of 457 20 January 2013 at 3:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Now that you mention it, she does kind of sound like Yoona at times during that clip.
You didn't remember that? The first time I saw her mention it was in reply to one of your posts. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4443 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 165 of 457 20 January 2013 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow I am impressed by everybody's intros! Renate and Johnny, It was really nice
listenning to your recordings. Unfortunately, I understand most but not all of your introductions. Renate, I am quite (to not say "very") impressed. Your accent is really good and easy to understand. You also seem to have great capacities of production in Korean, which, even though I understand what you say, I seem not to have! Johnny, also really nice! Your tones are really impressive from my (fellow beginner's) point of view! I guess having a wife half-chinese helps with that too! Anyway, I don't think I will have the confidence to do an audio introduction! I could in Japanese but I am too ashamed of my accent in Korean and definitely not able to do so in Chinese with good tones. So I guess I will write an introduction in a mix of the three during this week! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4489 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 166 of 457 20 January 2013 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@yuhakko : you don't have to record an audio intro in all your languages. One in Japanese would be more than welcome, especially for people aspiring to learn Japanese (like me!). :)
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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4443 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 167 of 457 20 January 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Haha, alright alright! I'll try to make an audio intro in Japanese! However since I was
looking forward to try to write in Korean, Mandarin, I'll try to do so too! but probably shorter though :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4635 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 168 of 457 21 January 2013 at 4:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi again. I thought I'd pop back in to introduce myself.
My name is Gabriel and I live in Quebec city, Canada. I've been studying mandarin for a year or so, although the first months of it was more like dabbling than proper study. Throughout that time, I finished Pimsleur I and found it very helpful in breaking the tone barrier. I also tried learning character recognition using Memrise and started writing a little. Last fall I took a chinese class at the university I attend (as a doctorate film student), and it went by, I must say, quite easily. It was so because I had already had begun months prior and had substantial knowledge for an elementary level student. Anyway, I passed the class with a very satisfying grade and planned to continue for class number two this winter, but unfortunately I probably won't be able to make it because of scheduling conflicts with a seminar I must attend for my doctorate. I am in line for another group at a different time (all the chinese classes are full), but I don't hold my breath. I also started meeting with a chinese girl a few months ago, once a week, exchanging an hour of English for her and one of chinese for me. I have acquired various textbooks and dictionaries in chinese so I won't exactly be left out in the cold if I can't take part in the class itself. I'd like to go through the Basic Spoken and Written chinese books I got last year. This could be the occasion, this year. Through all of this, my main goal, language-wise, is to further my polish studies which I began in 2011. I don't have classes anymore (I had a private teacher, but I don't have enough money right now to keep that going), but I'm advanced enough to keep going, I think, in the right direction (plus my mom is polish! although she can't give me any grammatical advice, I can talk with her in polish and thus practice). 你们好！我叫Gabriel、我是加拿大魁北克人、 � �� �� �学习汉语和波兰语。我妈妈是波兰人、我爸 �� �是了魁 北克人。我在大学也学习电影。我会说法语和 英语 。我 没有哥哥、弟 弟、姐姐、妹妹。我爱看书和去电影院。我有 很多汉语 书。我喜欢喝绿茶、红 茶、花茶、咖啡和红酒，可是我不喜欢喝可口 可乐、雪碧。我不吃肉。我很喜欢吃鱼。现在 我看莫言 的书Les treize pas(法 语书）。它是很好。现在我很忙、也很累！我 有 很多工作！可是我很喜欢普通话。再见！ Translation : Hi all! My name is Gabriel, I'm from Quebec, Canada, I study chinese and polish. My mom is polish, my father was from Quebec. At the university, I also study film. I can speak french and English. I don't have any big brother, little brother, big sister or little sister. I love to read books and go to the movies. I have a lot of chinese books. I love to drink green tea, red (black) tea, jasmine tea, coffee and red wine, but I don't like to drink Coca-Cola or Sprite. I don't eat meat. I love to eat fish. At the moment, I'm reading a book my Mo Yan, Les treize pas (a french translation). It's great. Right now, I'm quite busy and tired! I have too much work! But I love chinese. Goodbye! (some characters don't show, I'm not sure why...) my log is here : Homogenik's log Edited by Homogenik on 21 January 2013 at 4:51am 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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