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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 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 1 of 137 16 January 2013 at 12:19pm | IP Logged |
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Arekkusu and I have decided to try something new: a TAC Tandem. Our language goals are
very compatible: I can help Arekkusu with German and Esperanto, possibly Chinese. Arekkusu can help me with Québécois and Japanese. We may both try to re-activate Italian/Spanish this year. We may both dabble in Thai or Portuguese. A tandem may turn out to be more motivating than a large team; we'll keep each other on track. Here's to a successful TAC 2013! Our logs Arekkusu: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=23061 Sprachprofi: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34973 Edited by Fasulye on 05 February 2013 at 1:12am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4450 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 137 16 January 2013 at 12:23pm | IP Logged |
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That's a neat idea! Good luck to you both.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5166 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 137 16 January 2013 at 3:26pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I've started the year with Pimsleur Romanian. First CD is done. I doubt I'll be studying Romanian seriously, though; this is just to acquaint myself with the language.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 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 4 of 137 16 January 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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I'm presently doing the Tadoku focussing on Modern Greek - I started over a week late
though. I'm also revising my Dutch as I'm involved in the production of another series for DutchPod101. I set a goal of reading something every day and also having a foreign language conversation every day, since I'm notoriously bad at getting speaking practise. This goal helps: yesterday I spoke Japanese with my tutor, today I got myself invited to the Italian Lunch, tomorrow I shall have breakfast with a Québécois guy and Friday it's another Japanese lesson. Edited by Sprachprofi on 16 January 2013 at 10:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5166 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 5 of 137 16 January 2013 at 10:14pm | IP Logged |
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In the case of Québécois, I think you'll have to replace reading with oral material -- such as Yvon Deschamps monologues. Lots of material in there, I'm sure.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6255 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 6 of 137 16 January 2013 at 10:33pm | IP Logged |
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I seem to have acquired a play that contains Québécois that I could read ;-) but I
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5166 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 137 19 January 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
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Pimsleur Romanian Experiment
I decided to give Pimsleur Romanian a try and see how the course is. I've used Pimsleur before with Norwegian, but I already had a foundation in it; in the case of Romanian, I knew absolutely nothing about the language, except that it has cases (which I have yet to see any sign of in the course...). I'm now midway through CD3 (out of 5). It's obvious that the whole course could only leave me with very, very basic knowledge of the language. The first two CDs were rather slow and unchallenging, but the 3rd one picked up a bit and it's getting more interesting. I only listen to the CDs once, as the material is regularly repeated, and I try to do one track per day, sometimes 2; ie. I haven't skipped a day yet, in which case, it might become necessary to review a previous track. Since the absence of writing is part of this course's experience, I have no idea how these words are spelled, other than from some kind of mental image I am developing as I go along. One issue is that there are a few confusing vowels and I wish I could pin them down with writing. Vowels that sound like some kind of mid high and mid central unrounded vowels remain partly a mystery, but I'm making a point of tracking them down and trying to acquire a better sense of them as I progress. Certain changes like 'roman' to 'romanka' (forgive the spelling; I am just guessing here) bring some kind of vocalic centering but I have not idea yet whether this is an active or inactive process. It's also difficult to remember or work out verb conjugations without seeing a complete table. I have no idea how 1st sing and 2nd plur are derived, either from each other or from some other intermediate form. This is a bit annoying, but I'll play along. Another interesting point is intonation and stress. I'm starting to get a sense of them, but stress obviously doesn't work exactly as I initially expected. Sometimes, a final vowel sounds stressed even though I know it's not, from other utterances. I'm still listening for that. Finally, for some reason, I keep saying 'ne' instead of 'nu', which I suspect is Esperanto interference. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4915 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 8 of 137 19 January 2013 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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I really like the idea of a tandem TAC. It seems like an extremely efficient way to stay
motivated and push forward. Best of luck! R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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