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renaissancemedi
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 Message 161 of 252
28 January 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged 
Turkish

Today was a day of Turkish. I have finished the 4 FSI unit, and I can now count to ten.

I have a feeling tomorrow will be another turkish day.

The more I read, the more I like it. I can't believe I hadn't tried to learn before.







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renaissancemedi
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 Message 162 of 252
30 January 2014 at 9:46am | IP Logged 
I saw In the Electric Mist last night.

Nice English language film, great actors (Levon Helm too!), nice accents, but the best part was the soundtrack. The trailer doesn't do justice to the atmosphere is has.


La Terre Tremblante

Before I read the lyrics I could understand only words, but made no sense of everything else. I don't understand the canadian french accent either :)



LA TERRE TREMBLANTE





Les pêcheurs mettent leurs lignes comme des araignées
Piégeurs, voleurs des âmes
Les attrapes sont mises pour les innocents
Gambleurs, éviteurs des blâmes


Descends
Allons
Descends
Dans l'eau saumâtre


Reviens
C'est rien
Reviens
A la terre tremblante


Les voleurs, ça met leurs appâts sur la ligne
La bouteille, la fierté et l’argent
Ça voit pas qu’ils sont piégés pour toujours
Dedans un fil étranglant


Descends
Allons
Descends
Dans l'eau saumâtre

Reviens
C'est rien
Reviens
A la terre tremblante





Edit: In The Electric Mist (2009) Full movie with English Subtitles

Edited by renaissancemedi on 30 January 2014 at 9:56am

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Chung
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 Message 163 of 252
30 January 2014 at 2:57pm | IP Logged 
For your interest, you may find this discussion from the forum of the first website for the FSI courses to be informative when it comes to phrases or words in FSI Turkish that are noticeably out of style.

I'm happy to see that you're enjoying your Turkish studies again.
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renaissancemedi
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 Message 164 of 252
30 January 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged 
Thank you Chung, this is so helpful we should make it public for the team :)

Yes, I am enjoying it a lot. I even took a good look at the second TY lesson, and it wasn't nearly as scary as the first.





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renaissancemedi
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 Message 165 of 252
02 February 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged 
I might as well admit it: My main focus becomes turkish and french, more and more. The best I can do for russian is an assimil course per day, and for hebrew simply try to learn the alphabet really well and slowly move through FSI.

I think that after a rather experimental January, it will be the pattern of this year's studies. Which is not bad, if it works. An advanced level in french, an FSI level in turkish (whatever it is), an assimil course in progress for russian and good foundation for hebrew.

This thought takes a lot of anxiety off, I mean about how to effectively deal with four languages. They simply can't all be studied with the same intensity. Or at least I can't do it.

Speaking of FSI levels, I read somewhere that for turkish it takes you from 450 to 2.500 words (items...). I don't know if it's true, but it sounds good.

It includes the major patterns of simple sentences, and a vocabulary of about 475 high frequency items. In Level Two, basic dialogues and structure drills are supplemented with exercises that are designed to lead the student into freer conversation. It also presents the principal grammatical patterns not covered in Level One; and has a glossary of about 2500 items from both levels, as well as narrative passages serving to introduce the style of written Turkish.

Edited by renaissancemedi on 02 February 2014 at 10:09pm

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 Message 166 of 252
02 February 2014 at 11:30pm | IP Logged 
renaissancemedi wrote:
I might as well admit it: My main focus becomes turkish and french, more and more. The best I can do for russian is an assimil course per day, and for hebrew simply try to learn the alphabet really well and slowly move through FSI.

I think that after a rather experimental January, it will be the pattern of this year's studies. Which is not bad, if it works. An advanced level in french, an FSI level in turkish (whatever it is), an assimil course in progress for russian and good foundation for hebrew.

That's precisely my method: change your focus as the languages progress. Along the path, you're bound to find moments where you're stuck in your number one language, in which case you should switch. Unless you have some test or exam coming up, that is.

In my experience, learning languages at different levels is like having several hobbies: this month you play the guitar a lot, next one is a new ikebana technique. Just don't fall behind on the bonsai. ;)
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renaissancemedi
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 Message 167 of 252
03 February 2014 at 8:31am | IP Logged 
Thanks Luso :)
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renaissancemedi
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 Message 168 of 252
03 February 2014 at 10:39am | IP Logged 
For the FSI learners, a paper on the FSI courses and language learning.

FSI, Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching


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