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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4503 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 105 of 329 13 January 2013 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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They just prevent repetition.
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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4461 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 106 of 329 13 January 2013 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Assimil Lesson 45 (Active): This one went really well. I forgot "se diriger", but other than it was all smooth.
2. Tomorrow is the start of the school semester, so I'll have to fit French in among all my class obligations. I may not be writing quite as much in this log, but I'm still going to try to do at least two Assimil lessons a day (one from each phase) and meet up over Skype with my new tutor twice a week. Hopefully I can get a new computer at some point so that Skype and webcam connections in general will work better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4461 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 107 of 329 14 January 2013 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Assimil Lesson 95 (Passive): This one was pretty easy. I only missed a couple things on my dictation, and there were only two new words / expressions:
exprès fichez-moi la paix Sometimes I wish the difficulty of Assimil lessons were more evenly distributed, but I guess it can be hard to gauge the potential difficulty of lessons for learners. :-) 2. Assimil Lesson 46 (Active): Not too bad. I tried something a bit different this time; rather than writing it out, I looked at each English sentence, tried to translate it into French aloud, then looked at the French version to see how close I got. Then I went back through and tried to do it again, getting smoother with my translation and delivery. I'll probably go back to it and do a written version later today. 3. I scheduled a new session with my tutor! As we were scheduling it, I noticed how quickly I had to switch to English when talking about plans / schedules, mentioned it to her, so she said we would work on it in a future session. Next session is Thursday afternoon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4461 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 108 of 329 15 January 2013 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Two weeks of TAC 2013 have passed and I'm feeling pretty good about what I have done so far. The tally for the first two weeks (1 Jan through 14 Jan) is:
22 Assimil lessons (11 passive, 11 active) 2 conversations in French several text chats in French 2 journal entries on lang-8 / italki hours of reading and listening to native materials that I didn't bother to write down probably half a dozen Anki sessions Week 3 starts today. :-) 2. I found a local French conversation meetup about half an hour away. Actually it seems to be a combined class and conversation group, with a one hour class for beginner to intermediate level, followed by an hour and a half conversation group. And it meets every week, too! The next session is tomorrow and I'm going to check it out. 3. Just an aside: reading Arekkusu's log about his experience at an Esperanto conference, it sounded like a pretty cool gathering, and it reminded me that the first time I ever wanted to learn a language on my own was when I wanted to learn Esperanto, back in middle school, I think. I can't even remember how I got the idea of learning Esperanto into my head, but I still remember downloading some tutorials and printing them out (I don't remember there being any sound samples, just a bunch of text). The interest didn't stick around too long, though. Maybe I'll check it out again some day... Edited by tastyonions on 15 January 2013 at 3:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4461 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 109 of 329 16 January 2013 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not having much luck with Verbling. All I get there is either no connection at all, or people with video and audio quality such that I can hardly hear a thing. I don't think the problem is on my end, because I just got a new computer yesterday. Maybe I'm just trying at the wrong time of day or something... Edited by tastyonions on 16 January 2013 at 3:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4503 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 110 of 329 16 January 2013 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had the same problem with Verbling.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5328 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 111 of 329 16 January 2013 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | ||
I find that at least 80% of the people on Verbling have totally unusable audio and video. The trick is to type a quick apology in the chat window, and then block them from future connections. After about two days of leaving Verbling open and blocking all the people with messed-up systems, I managed one chat with a religious proselytizer from Libya and one with a student from Algeria. There's a lot of French speakers from north Africa, and a lot of them have cheap computers and slow internet connections. Two connections in two days may seem like a lot of work for little payoff. But it's actually excellent compared to many language exchange sites, where I had to write two dozen emails and sit through several missed exchanges, and ultimately wound up with one cranky person I would avoid speaking to in English. Edited by emk on 16 January 2013 at 5:54pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4484 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 112 of 329 16 January 2013 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Hmm. This is making dealing with rude waiters in Paris sound like rainbows and sunshine. ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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