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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5182 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 121 of 246 06 April 2013 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||
That stinks. I was reading through some of the comments and it sounds like it's only available in the USA and Canada. It's a fairly new show, though. I will let you know if I can find another site where you can watch it. :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5182 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 122 of 246 24 April 2013 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just finished watching Poor Nastya for part of my Russian Super Challenge. I was planning to alternate between Assimil lessons and Poor Nastya episodes, but. . . I got hooked on it. Has anyone else seen it? "Set in the XIX century, this drama revolves around the lives of aristocrats and serfs in a tangle of romance, mystery, tragedy, and historical drama..." It was interesting, but it felt like watching a really bad soap opera.. you can't stop watching, because you want to know what happens at the end, but. . . If you start watching it and get to that point with it, I would highly suggest watching every second or third episode. Or just watch the last episode if you get tired of it. LOL. That's when you get all the answers. :) I don't know if it was this show in particular, or if all Russian drama/TV is like this.. but I hated how they would change scenes *right* before something pivotal would happen. Plus, (even besides the "previously on Poor Nastya" bits at the beginning of each episode) it seemed to repeat things over and over and over again. Is that typical of Russian TV production, or was it just this show? I am seriously confused why they switched actors for Nikita, too. It was a real shame, cuz the first guy was way better. :D Actually, the whole show was full of eye candy. It's almost worth watching just for that. :D :D 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5182 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 123 of 246 28 April 2013 at 4:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been focusing on reading Spanish for the Super Challenge, and I'm really frustrated with my reading speed. Depending on my focus and outside factors, I am reading 20-30 pages per hour, which is less than half the speed I read in English. I don't have much trouble understanding anymore, as far as vocabulary goes. I have a Paperwhite Kindle, so if I don't know a word, all I have to do is touch the word and the definition pops up. Even so, I don't use it that often for Spanish anymore. When I did a little poking around the internet about reading speeds, I read a lot about how sub-vocalizing slows people down a lot. I sub-vocalize when I read in Spanish, but not in English. There is a lot of vocabulary that I recognize when I come across it in context, but would not know the word on its own, and there are times when I have to slow down and pick the sentence apart, piece by piece. But this is becoming a less frequent occurrence, really. For any of you who are fluent or nearly fluent in multiple languages.. do you sub-vocalize when you read in your non-native languages? At what point do you get past that, if you do? In another thread, someone said they sub-vocalize when they read, but they don't when they are watching subtitles. Has anyone else experienced this? I started watching one of my Korean shows with Spanish subs earlier this week, and I have already noticed a difference in how easy it is to keep up with normal dialogs. (Of course, I still have trouble when they flash the rapid conversation with 3-4 lines of dialog up in rapid succession, but that is a problem when I watch with subs in English, too!) 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 124 of 246 28 April 2013 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I also subvocalize when I read in my native language... Usually it's not a bad thing in my opinion, because it forces me to think of the correct pronunciation rather than see the word as a whole, understand it and move on. As a kid I learned some Russian words incorrectly because I'd only seen them in books :D
French helps me control my subvocalizing, btw. if I ever subvocalize anything, it mostly sounds like Portuguese or Romanian in my head. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5182 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 125 of 246 28 April 2013 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||
I notice this with my kids. Anna has a really large vocabulary, but she doesn't know how to pronounce some of the words she sees only in books. I don't think sub-vocalizing is a bad thing, especially when you are learning a language (whether its your native language or a foreign one). I *do* think it slows down reading speed, though - regardless of the language you're reading in. I have noticed in the last week that I sub-vocalize less when I'm reading subs in Spanish than when I'm reading a book, for example. I just wish I didn't do it when I'm reading books, because I'd read a lot faster, then. :) 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 126 of 246 27 May 2013 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Has your twitter account been hacked? I think I'm getting some practise for the next RS employee we get on this forum...
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| 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 127 of 246 27 May 2013 at 1:46am | IP Logged | ||
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in case you wanna easily read what happened: http://snag.gy/VNgLi.jpg
at least by now i'm not worried about you :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5182 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 128 of 246 27 May 2013 at 2:15am | IP Logged | ||
No, my Twitter account has not been hacked. Thanks for watching my back, though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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