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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6265 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 57 of 137 20 February 2013 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I finally finished the 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 Book 5: "Ramsès - le temple des millions d'années" by Christian Jacq This is the second book in a series set at the time of Pharaoh Ramses. The author is an egyptologist, which means his descriptions are very colourful and contain accurate information on Ancient Egypt. I really enjoy them for this reason. Edited by Sprachprofi on 20 February 2013 at 11:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4804 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 58 of 137 20 February 2013 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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This idea and log is awesome, I wish you both a lot o success. And thanks for the book ideas.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5176 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 59 of 137 23 February 2013 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil Roumain: active, lesson 30 / passive, lesson 86.
I had a Romanian lesson online today. Here is a site that offers links to several Romanian news sites: http://www.ziareromanesti.net/ Here is also an interesting Romanian manual for foreigners. In German, I'm still reading Illuminati. Edited by Arekkusu on 23 February 2013 at 7:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6265 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 60 of 137 25 February 2013 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Service announcement: Arekkusu wrote an amazing very detailed post about developing a
native-like accent at http://qr.ae/TI5Fd and I recommend it to anyone! -- Lately, I haven't been making as much of an effort to find opportunities to use foreign languages in conversation; I have to work on that again, maybe find some more tandem partners. On the bright side, I might - with a lot of luck - travel to China for a week at the end of March. I have watched a bit more videos/movies in foreign languages, namely two Asterix movies in Greek and an episode of "Conseil d'Administration" in Québécois. Most of my time is still divided between Duolingo and reading. I'm progressing 10-15 pages at a time through my Chinese book because my reading speed is so atrocious. At the same time I have finished an Esperanto book however: 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 Book 5: "Ramsès - le temple des millions d'années" by Christian Jacq Book 6: "Oni ne pafas en Jamburg" by Mikaelo Bronŝtejn This book is about Soviet Russia under Brezhnev and the Russian Esperanto youth movement in the 1970s. Quite a different world, one that I knew little about before. As a novel, I didn't enjoy it that much, because it's more of a collection of episodes of life than a compelling story, but the insights into Soviet Russia made me keep on reading. Since I enjoyed Steven Pressfield's "Io Alessandro", I was crazy enough to order another one of his novels in Italian and also his book "Άνεμοι πόλεμου" (Tides of War) in Greek off Bookdepository.com. I'm second-guessing myself now because it's 578 large pages long. On the other hand, there's no doubt my Greek would be much better after reading this; it has consistently been my experience that reading helps a lot with languages that are a bit removed from ours. Edited by Sprachprofi on 25 February 2013 at 7:43pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5176 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 61 of 137 26 February 2013 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Nothing too special to announce -- I'm actually sticking to my plan, though.
I'm still working on Romanian and I'm still reading Illuminati in German. In Assimil Roumain, I'm at lessons 87/32. I'm still interested in the book, and it would be a shame not to finish it, but I'm starting to get interested in other resources, such as the manual I pointed to in my earlier post. I've also got a few Romanian movies I intend to watch soon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4502 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 62 of 137 26 February 2013 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can't get the link to the manual to work, which is a shame. I am using Chrome, by the
way. But what do you think of the Assimil in detail, Arekkusu? I like this Assimil quite a bit actually. It's better in terms of content than all the other ones I've finished, it just lacks a good grammatical appendix and a lexis at the back (I know the list at the back refers to the notes but I'd rather have a complete appendix). I also find some of the stories quite humorous, and even in lesson 10 they introduce a lot of new vocab all at once; which is annoying if this is your first foreign language, but it's perfect for me because most of these words are very logical in some way given my background. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5176 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 63 of 137 26 February 2013 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||
The link works for me both on a computer and on my iPad. As for Assimil... I enjoy the lessons, how they expose you to various things, but I dislike its lack of organisation. You'll come across a verb and they will list, at the bottom of the page, the conjugation, as if you'd just remember a list of six words. At least if it were in the form of a table, but no, just lists. A word's inflections, sing., plur., with and without articles... presented as a list. Come on... I also dislike how a lot of the vocabulary is useless. Wolf, ax, attic, ... I can't remember using them in any language for a long time. But at the same time, no teach yourself method is perfect. I'm not in love with it; more like a marriage of reason. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4502 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 64 of 137 26 February 2013 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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The problem is that once they re-do the course, they'll make it look fancy but drop that
type of content and dumb it down a bit. I wish they'd just update the notes and put in an appendix and maybe improve the layout to look less dated (although I personally enjoy that look)... this Assimil is at least thorough. Edited by tarvos on 26 February 2013 at 3:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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