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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5115 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 105 of 297 03 October 2014 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you understand most things in an easy conversation, and say correctly what you want to say, also in an easy setting? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 106 of 297 03 October 2014 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Accuracy is overrated ;)
(Just in case - Russian won't be listed as "speaks" if you switch it to intermediate) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5043 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 107 of 297 03 October 2014 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Reading your recap of your trip to Moscow is, to me, what language-learning is all about, Cristina. :)
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4988 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 108 of 297 03 October 2014 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
Maybe in a decade or two once I've accomplished my current language goals! :) I'd love to but don't see myself having the time required to commit to it any time soon. But reading your log is an inspiration that if you keep it up you'll eventually see results. I certainly felt like I had an enormous amount to learn even just to get to the point of putting correct sentences together. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5115 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 109 of 297 03 October 2014 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Iguanamon: Thank you, I must admit that this trip was not just a huge confidence
booster, it was also a huge motivation booster. I danced around to Russian pop music in the shower this morning, just to get more input :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5115 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 110 of 297 03 October 2014 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
If you start doing just a little bit now, you will be that much closer in a few years, when you would otherwise have wanted to start :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4488 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 111 of 297 03 October 2014 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Nobody understands everything effortlessly. From what I saw you had plenty of automatisms in your Russian and you had more than the basics down. That's intermediate. I don't think you can follow a slang discussion on extreme body modification in Russian where everyone is yelling and shouting at the same time on national television (just to pick an obscure topic under terrible comprehension circumstances), because that's hard. Accuracy is also accurate with a few grammatical mistakes. What you do is what intermediate is. In my view, at least. And I know that counts for very little. Edited by tarvos on 03 October 2014 at 4:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6937 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 112 of 297 03 October 2014 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's nice to read about your experiences and it's obviously and equally nice to meet HTLALers in person.
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