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Tristano’s log 2015 [EN|FR|NL|RU|ES] | ||
Tags: Lithuanian | Burn-out | Dutch | Portuguese | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | English | French | Spanish | ||
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 177 18 December 2014 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi everyone, this is the log for the new year.
As preannounced, I won't plan to reach any specific level during this year in my languages. I will study and put effort and in the end of the year I will be glad for the improvements. The languages I plan to study are the one listed in this log's name. This is the current situation: English 
+ I use this language every day at work and for my social life without big issues + I didn't do formal studies so my grammar could be much better - I have huge difficulties with some American and British accent action points: . reading novels to improve my vocabulary . using lang-8 to improve my writing French 
+ I can use this language for professional and personal life - My active vocabulary is short - My grammar knowledges are still weak action points: . attending classes . reading novels . studying grammar Dutch 
+ big improvements compared to beginning 2014 + I can read emails and reply - still a lot of work to do action points: . assimil . reading novels . studying grammar . skype conversations Spanish 
+ very good passive skills - very basic active skills action points: . studying grammar . watching movies . Spanishpod101 . skype conversations Russian 
Totally new language, I start from 0. ***DROPPED*** Lithuanian More or less like Russian. **************** News 2014-12-26: first dropped (postponed?) project, Lithuanian. Beautiful and fascinating, although not a good moment for me to study it. Edited by tristano on 30 December 2014 at 2:14pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 2 of 177 21 December 2014 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Voici les resources qui je vais utiliser au fin de améliorer mes langues:
Français La méthode qui est utilisé par l'Alliance Française de La Haye est notamment le Latitude. J'ai utilisé le second livre de la serie et j'imagine qu'on va utiliser le troisième pour le prochains niveaux (le niveau que j'ai obtenu par le dernier cour c'est "B1.2"). Honnêtement, je ne l'ai apprécié pas beaucoup. Ce livre-ci est pensé pour l'utilisation en classe et beaucoup des exercises sont ambigus et pas très clairs. C'est pour cette raison que j'ai décidé d'acheter (grace à vos bons conseilles) le livre Grammaire Progressive du Français niveau avancé pour m'entrainer plus efficacement á la maison. Néerlandais La méthode qui j'utilise maintenant c'est Assimil Le Néerlandais. Je fais compte d'utiliser aussi le livre de perfectionnement, et d'acheter aussi des livres de grammaire. Par contre, la grammaire n'est pas ce qui m'interesse le plus á mon actuel niveau de connaissance de la langue néerlandaise. C'est pour ça que je n'ai acheté pas aucun livre de grammaire. Maintenant toute mon attention est dédiée à l'apprentissage d'un vocabulaire suffisant pour obtenir un bon niveau de compréhension soit orale que écrite. Espagnol Cette langue represent un cas exceptionnel: bien que je le l'ai étudiée que pendant un mois, ça suffit parce que je la parle et comprends assez pour vivre en Espagne. Bien entendu: je ne parle pas un bon Espagnol; plus tot je parle ce que j'appelle "Itagnol". Ma strategie pour rejoindre un niveau acceptable c'est étudier la grammaire et lire des romans. En parlent de la grammaire, j'ai acheté la Gramática de uso del español de niveau B1/B2. Russe Je utiliserai surement l'Assimil pour commencer. ***DROPPED*** Lituanien N'existe pas beaucoup de bon materiel, mais je vais à essayer avec Teach Yourself et Colloquial Lithuanian. En plus, il y a Book2. **************** Autres resources: Bliu Bliu (https://bliubliu.com) Principalement pour l'acquisition de vocabulaire et la pratique de la lecture Lang-8 (http://lang-8.com/) Pour la pratique de l'expression écrite. Memrise, Anki Vous n'avez pas besoin d'explications en regard Useful HTLAL threads Formal British English study plan B1 to C1 French Grammar Grammar books and dictionary for Dutch Resources for Russian Spanish intermediate to advanced grammar Jeffer's French Log 2015 Spanish podcasts for native speakers Advices for French Podcasts Accessible French and Spanish poems Défis personnels: - completer au moins un livre de grammaire de français, d'espagnol et de néerlandais. - lire 5 livres en français, 5 en anglais, 5 en espagnol, 2 en néerlandais. - regarder 15 films en français, 15 en anglais, 15 en espagnol et 5 en néerlandais. Livres en anglais: Livres en français: Livres en espagnol: Livres en néerlandais: Films en anglais: Films en français: Films en espagnol: 1. Eyes wide shut Films en néerlandais: Vidéos: Anglais: slomozovo Français: Andy Néerlandais: 13 in de oorlog Russe: Espagnol: HolaSoyGerman focusingsvlogs TheVicVlogs MOOC Websites with foreign language courses: miriadax (spanish, portuguese) coursera edx Edited by tristano on 24 January 2015 at 6:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3 of 177 22 December 2014 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cette année je participe á la TAC (après l'experience négative de l'année dernière).
Voici les liens aux threads des équipes: Team Français - TAC 2015 - TEAM THREAD TAC 2015 - Rare Languages Team Thread Team Pushkin - TAC 2015 - TEAM THREAD Spanish team log TAC15 Team Caesar (Romance languages) Edited by tristano on 07 January 2015 at 5:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 5044 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 177 22 December 2014 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
Éste me parece interesante, así que fui al sitio para verlo. Encontré el libro en su sección de descargas, pero no veo cómo descargarlo. ¿Sabes dónde puedo descargar/comprar este libro? ¡Gracias! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 5 of 177 23 December 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Amazon :)
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| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 5044 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 177 23 December 2014 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Weird that they don't have links to sell it on their own page. Thanks!
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| Nieng Zhonghan Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 3669 days ago 108 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Japanese*, Spanish, Galician Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, Armenian, Mongolian Studies: Old English, Russian, English, German, Korean, Mandarin | Message 7 of 177 23 December 2014 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tristano,
Lithuanian (and Latvian) are both amazing languages. I am really fond of Lithuanian (and Latvian) culture and languages. I am not sure how helpful will be, but I will post here some suggestions that might useful in the future. 1. There are channels available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kristytamo/featured https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1JZFw7K0e5j7VVbF0UERBA 2. As for other websites I have used so far: These are some courses: http://www.debeselis.net/ http://www.slic.org.au/Language/LLL_index.swf http://ikindalikelanguages.com/labs/courses.php?id=33 http://labs.ikindalikelanguages.com/courses.php?id=16 http://www.oneness.vu.lt/ http://www.lithuanian.libsyn.com/ A podcast (It is not that frequently updated, but I find it very good) 3.Forum: http://www.unilang.org/viewforum.php?f=64 http://www.debeselis.net/forum/index.php 4. Other websites: http://postilla.mch.mii.lt/Kalba/kalbarast.en.htm http://www.thelithuanians.com/school.html http://www.ucl.ac.uk/atlas/lithuanian/language.html http://www.lituanus.org/1982_1/82_1_01.htm 5. Online dictionary: I am not sure how good it is, though: http://www.zodynas.lt/ There were other good dictionaries but the websites is out. If they become active again, I will leave here the link. 6. The classic textbook is 'Introduction to Modern Lithuanian' by Dambriunas, Klimas and Schmalstieg. It's very solid on grammar and things like the accent system. 7. Bingelienė R., Kutanovienė E. Pasikartokime Vilnius: A. Varno personalinė įmonė, 2001 8. Babickienė Z., Bareikytė A. Lithuanian Pictorial Dictionary Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 1996 9. Hilbig I., Migauskienė R., Našlėnaitė V., Petrašiūnienė E., Tamošaitienė A., Valančiauskienė A., Vaškevičienė L. Sveiki atvykę! Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2008 10)Ramonienė M., Pribušauskaitė J. Practical Grammar of Lithuanian Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2008 11.Pribušauskaitė J. Kaip sekasi? Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2011 12. Prosniakova H., Stumbrienė V., Labas! (Book One & Two) Vilnius: Žara, 2009 13.This is also a grammar book: Ramonienė M., Pribušauskaitė J. Praktinė lietuvių kalbos gramatika Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2008 14) Stumbrienė V., Vilkienė L., Roebuck W. 365 lietuvių kalbos veiksmažodžiai / 365 Lithuanian Verbs Vilnius: Tyto alba, 2008 15. I have used the Teach Yourself collection for other languages and I don't like it much. It might give you a brief insight about the language, but it should have more audio, I think. 16 Colloquial Lithuanian by Routledge. I think the texts are good and well selected. You can get some insight about the basic vocabulary A1 and perhaps A2 level, but this book perhaps lack in more grammar explanation and exercises. 17. Stumbrienė V., Kaškelevičienė A Nė dienos be lietuvių kalbos Student's Book Vilnius: Gimtasis žodis, 2001 Stumbrienė V., Kaškelevičienė A. Nė dienos be lietuvių kalbos 2 CDs Vilnius: Gimtasis žodis, 2002 18. Kruopienė I. Ištark... Vilnius: Gimtasis žodis, 2004 19. Petrašiūnienė E., Valančiauskienė A., Našlėnaitė-Eberhardt V., Jakaitė-Bulbukienė K., Vaškevičienė L. Langas į lietuvių kalbą Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2014 20. Hilbig I., Migauskienė R., Našlėnaitė-Eberhardt V., Petrašiūnienė E., Tamošaitienė A., Valančiauskienė A., Vaškevičienė L. Sveiki! Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2014 If you have a chance to visit Vilnius, you can find some reasonable bookstores and you can try visiting the Vilnius University (I am not sure if this was the real name). I am glad that I was understood by local people by the time I visited Lithuania. Edited by Nieng Zhonghan on 23 December 2014 at 3:09pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 8 of 177 23 December 2014 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Arthaey, no problem ;)
@Nieng Zhonghan, thank you immensely! Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to visit Lithuania this year. A two/three weeks full immersion course would be the best way to break the ice but this would also mean goodbye to my trips in Spain and Japan :( There are also other courses for Lithuanian (like 'Beginner Lithuanian') but I don't know personally how to proceed with this language. The ideal would be an Assimil course (: How did you proceed? How would you personally advice me to proceed? I personally don't mind to work through grammar and exercises and meanwhile using other resources to improve my vocabulary. I doubt I will ever speak this language a lot and to me a very good starting point is achieving comprehension and writing skills. Thank you again! EDIT: I'm sorry for the very quick change of mind (but still I thank you wholeheartedly for your kindness to share all these resources with me) but I decided that it's too heavy to me to study Lithuanian in this moment, so I drop (postpone?) this project so that I can concentrate on the other languages plus start Russian as soon as I can. Thank you again! Edited by tristano on 24 December 2014 at 9:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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