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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4378 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 377 of 522 21 October 2014 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Yay that's good, I think I'll register then :) I normally enjoy it and I missed the August one because of my electricity problems.
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4378 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 378 of 522 22 October 2014 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm on page 294 of 'Rajski čekić' now and have 819 pages for Tadoku, so I'm getting there :)
I didn't watch anything last night unfortunately as a I had a bit of a nightmare day. Left home at 06.45, got home at 20.15 and by the time I'd cooked and wasted half an hour of my life on the HMRC website trying to establish whether the Esperanto association should be charging VAT on exam fees, it was time for bed. It's an exciting life I lead :D I should have some more time to read at the weekend because I'm going to London for an Esperanto discussion circle on Saturday. Actually I should read the notes to refresh my Esperanto and figure out what it is we're supposed to be discussing. But I ought to be able to read in Croatian on the train there and back at least. I may go to Foyles on Sunday just to stroke some books :) I did sign up for the 6WC in the end. I want to work on my grammar and also on my Cyrillic reading/writing, as well as watching more films. I am running out of translated books to read until I get my birthday/Christmas presents, but I have two original Croatian novels which I think I might now be brave enough to try. One of them is called 'Što je muškarac bez brkova?' (What is a man without a moustache?) and I am thinking of trying to find the film and watching that, then reading the book and watching the film again to see how much more I can follow a second time. Assuming it's not really boring, of course! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4378 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 379 of 522 23 October 2014 at 9:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Page 352 of 'Rajski čekić' and 872 pages for Tadoku :) At this rate I might manage to finish 'Rajski čekić' before the weekend and take a new book to London with me.
The guy who was doing the SC in six weeks has finished it :o But I'm not going to compare myself to that because some days he managed to watch 7 hours of films. I struggle even to find 7 hours to sleep :D No TV last night because my other half came home after five days away in Italy. Was nice to see him - I don't really enjoy living alone. I looked up the themes for the Esperanto discussion group: 1) Ĉu en kelkaj landoj UEA rifuzu starigi Universalan Kongreson? (Should the World Esperanto Association refuse to hold its annual conference in some countries?) 2) Defendu nekomunan aŭ eĉ nepopularan opinion. (Defend an unusual or unpopular opinion) 3) Montevideo: 60 jarojn poste (Montevideo: 60 years later) 4) Miskomprenoj (Misunderstandings) Number 2) is a difficult one - I need to start thinking of an opinion I can defend! I finally had my Christmas holiday confirmed by work. I have two weeks off with overtime, public holidays etc so I was hoping to go away for the week after Christmas but I'm struggling to find reasonable flights. Flying from the UK to Croatia outside the summer season is a virtual impossibility. Croatia Airlines has a few flights from Zagreb to Gatwick, but Gatwick isn't an airport I can easily get to. All the other airlines which run flights to Zadar, Split, Dubrovnik, Rijeka, Pula and even Osijek only seem to do so between May and the end of September :( For the past couple of years I have gone to Zagreb in the week before Christmas to see the Christmas markets (they have white gluehwein and hot rakija - it is amazing!), but flying via Ljubljana. Ljubljana is beautiful at Christmas too, but the flights are quite expensive after Christmas so it's perhaps not a good idea. All flights to eastern/central Europe are expensive the week after Christmas - or, at least, the flights back are expensive - because there are so many workers coming back to the UK after spending Christmas with their families, so having a holiday in western Europe might actually work out cheaper. Last year we went to Oslo for new year but it turned out to be a bit of a disaster as we had no idea how difficult it was to get alcohol there and pretty much all we could afford to eat was bread :D We shall see! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6498 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 380 of 522 23 October 2014 at 10:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Why don't you check out Beograd? Air Serbia has flights from London.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 381 of 522 23 October 2014 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Croatian is worth learning ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4378 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 382 of 522 23 October 2014 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That's a good idea :) I do have quite a lot of Serbian dinars left from my summer trip!
:D One of the people who is coming is originally from Slovenia and speaks Croatian too so I may actually get to practise a little bit with her :) Edited by Radioclare on 23 October 2014 at 3:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6498 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 383 of 522 24 October 2014 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Unpopular opinions:
defend that Croatian is worth learning in Serbia defend that Serbian is worth learning in Croatia defend that Bosnian is worth learning in Srpska Republika defend that any of these is worth learning anywhere outside the former Yugoslavia Edited by Iversen on 24 October 2014 at 10:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4378 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 384 of 522 24 October 2014 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Disappointingly I haven't finished reading 'Rajski čekić' yet as I had a serious book
malfunction on my commute home yesterday. The plot was just starting to get really exciting and I was reading as fast as I could to find out what happened before I had to get off the train. I turned a page at a crucial moment and the next few sentences suddenly didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I kept reading, but suddenly I really didn't understand what was going on, so I flicked backwards and forwards a few times and finally realised that my edition of the book was missing 20 pages!!! I was rather upset but luckily when I got home it turned out that my boyfriend has the book in English, so last night I was able to read the missing pages in English :) Unfortunately I forgot to put the Serbian book back in my bag to read on today's commute though, so I was reduced to some audiobook listening on the train instead: 46 minutes of 'Istorije slučaja'. The funniest thing for me about reading some of the book in English was that I realised I had been completely misunderstanding some people's names. I have the Serbian translation so all the 'foreign' names are transliterated (in Croatian they don't do this) but I thought I was doing pretty well, understanding that Majkl was really Michael and Džudi was Judy. But one of the characters was a child called 'Dasti' and I couldn't figure out what that would be in English, so I had assumed it was just a slightly strange name. It turns out that in the English version the name is Dusty! Similarly I thought the characters lived in a valley called 'Ovens' and it turns out it is actually a valley called 'Owens' :D 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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