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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5175 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 41 of 137 05 February 2013 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Wow! My partner's on fire!
Yes -- I've decided to read the dialogue once before going for the translation. This way, I only make the odd mistake, which then becomes that much easier to remember. I have to admit that if the intent of the authors was to have you translate the lesson without reading the dialogue first, it's an odd idea: I'm finding words that I don't recall seeing in any of the subsequent lessons (or if they did, it couldn't have been very often), so expecting people to remember every single word or detail that was only presented that one time is counter-productive, to say the least. If at least it was reused in the equivalent more advanced lesson... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5175 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 42 of 137 07 February 2013 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Quick update on Assimil Romanian: lessons 66 / 15.
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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4459 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 43 of 137 07 February 2013 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Interestingly, my Assimil French actually recommends reading through and listening to the dialogue one time before doing the translation. What instructions do they give in Assimil Romanian? Edited by tastyonions on 07 February 2013 at 4:19pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5175 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 44 of 137 07 February 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ah, well that settles the matter! This is what they say: "à chaque nouvelle leçon, vous reprendrez une des anciennes, dans l'ordre croissant, et vous la traduirez du français en roumain en cachant d'abord le texte roumain et en vérifiant ensuite." Frankly, "vous reprendrez une des anciennes" could mean either "take the lesson and translate it" or "go over the lesson and then translate it". But I think we can now establish it's the second option. To just translate it cold would be unreasonable. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6264 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 45 of 137 07 February 2013 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Read another book!
Book 1: "B.A.f.H. - Das Neueste vom Bastard Assistant" by Florian Schiel Book 2: "Το ταξίδι στη χώρα που δε βλέπουν τα μάτια..." by Αντώνης Καλογήρου Book 3: "Io Alessandro" by Steven Pressfield Book 4: "L'Irak du silence" by Marie de Varney This is a non-fictional book about the state of Iraq before and after the first gulf war. I learned a lot of interesting facts, for example that prior to the gulf war, Saddam's Ba'ath party was the closest to Western ideals when it comes to modernization, reducing the role of religion and improving the situation of women. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5175 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 46 of 137 09 February 2013 at 4:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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Assimil Roumain: lesson 70 / 17
I wrote a short text in Romanian on lang-8. I didn't know whether there'd be any Romanians there to correct my text, but someone did after about 12 hours. There weren't many mistakes! Then again, I was really careful. I could certainly feel the limitations (picking the right verb, the proper plural, personal direct object structure, etc.). German: Working on an article found on Geo.de. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5175 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 47 of 137 12 February 2013 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sunday: French/German/Esperanto Skype discussion with tandem partner. Some German reading.
Monday: -German: read Illuminati; -Romanian: now at lessons 72/22; -Esperanto: correspondence; -Japanese: some Facebook chat. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6264 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 48 of 137 12 February 2013 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Since the last update, I did some more Dutch for work, I started reading a French
novel, watched a couple episodes of my Chinese TV series, and basically just kept going through Duolingo in three languages at once, trying to do mirror lessons for Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Also, I watched "The Lion King" in Portuguese. There were a lot of things I didn't understand, but towards the end my comprehension was much better than at the beginning. I'm guessing I'm getting used to non-computer voices and intonation. Today, I had my first Portuguese conversation. It was very short - I ran into 3 Portuguese students on the subway while on my way to the Berlinale film festival and we talked for the few minutes it took to reach their stop. At the Berlinale, I watched one movie in Chinese (玉门, Yumen) and one in Québécois (Le Météore). The directors were present for both - these were premieres - and after the showing there was some Q&A. The Chinese movie was about a ghost town and contained mostly imagery, comparatively little speaking. I was amazed to recognize a poem that was recited though, about 玉门关. I believe I had heard it in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". 出塞 (王之渙) 黃河遠上白雲間， 一片孤城萬仞山。 羌笛何須怨楊柳， 春風不度玉門關。 "Le Météore" was almost all speaking, set to some stunning pictures. It's about how living in prison affects you or the people you know or even the prison guards. It switches between monologs by different affected people (all fictional), there are no action scenes, though a bit of time lapse happens over the movie, which you learn from those accounts. The camera only ever shows one person or animal or one focus, never two or a crowd. There are a lot of pictures that are so beautiful that you could print them and put them in a gallery. They contrast starkly with the monologs, which are matter- of-fact, not very emotional, but still depressing when you think about what they mean. The movie could easily pass as an argument against the inhumanity and arbitrariness of a modern prison. However, during the Q&A the director revealed it's also about "the prison in our minds"... which forced me to re-evaluate everything I've seen and I'm not done with that. From reading the description, I had expected a movie that would make the chest constrict and leave me angoissée, but in fact it just left me pensive. I can recommend it to anyone; I'll watch it again if I get the chance. Edited by Sprachprofi on 12 February 2013 at 11:23pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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