Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4224 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 137 of 170 01 June 2015 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
I feel masochistic: record yourself and talk about a topic of your choice.
Edited by Sarnek on 01 June 2015 at 10:32pm
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4530 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 138 of 170 01 June 2015 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
Sarnek wrote:
I feel masochistic: record yourself and talk about a topic of your choice. |
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The hardest part of that would be to come up with something to speak about ...
edit: watching some video and commenting it simultaneously via your audio recording might be a funny way to circumvent this problem (and maybe I'm the only one having it)
Edited by daegga on 01 June 2015 at 11:02pm
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AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5157 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish
| Message 139 of 170 06 June 2015 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
I don't speak Danish well enough to really talk about anything, but I'm not going to let that stop me. If nothing else, maybe this can be a "before" video, and I can make an "after" video at the end of my output challenge to see if I've made any progress.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5175 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 140 of 170 06 June 2015 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
June Challenge - Vlogging
Following Sarnek's masochistic suggestion, the output part of June's challenge consists of recording yourself speaking freely your target language. It may be previously rehearsed and even memorized, just avoid reading. Video is optional, audio-only will be enough.
As for the input alternative, find vlogs in your source Scandinavian language and watch at least 2 minutes of video. They have to be personal, actual vlogs about people introducing themselves and talking about their hobbies. No newscasts, no TV series, only personal videos which are probably going to have a selfie camera. The idea is to become familiarized with speaking about yourself in your target language, just like with the output part.
The challenge is due to the end of the month but, as has been the case with the other teams, feel free to post this and the other challenges anytime.
EDIT: Formatting.
Edited by Expugnator on 06 June 2015 at 11:04pm
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4530 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 141 of 170 07 June 2015 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
Ok, I'll upload my little experiment.
It's meant to be like a radio commentary, but I'm not as enthusiastic as those football commentators I'm afraid. I say in the beginning that I will post a link to the video I'm describing, but I won't for now, maybe later.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1nKVmDZlUNy
edit: adding the link to the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0nNZaNVnI
It's good music :)
In my log you'll find some additional notes/observation I made after listening to my recording.
And my pronunciation is certainly much sloppier than AlOlaf's ;) Speaking Danish isn't easy, I absolutely agree with Al.
Edited by daegga on 07 June 2015 at 9:33pm
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4224 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 142 of 170 07 June 2015 at 11:20am | IP Logged |
Wow, you must be hating me right now XD.
I'll follow up immediately:
My June Challenge
It's neither very coherent in what I say nor particularly correct in its form, but I hope that my point gets across.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 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 143 of 170 07 June 2015 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
It was interesting anyway. And yeah, please show the video :)
Wow, I love that there's an input option as well. Any recs?
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4530 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 144 of 170 07 June 2015 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
Wow, I love that there's an input option as well. Any recs? |
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Search for "fjortis" on youtube :D
(but better grab yourself a vodka or two when you do ...)
Edited by daegga on 07 June 2015 at 9:38pm
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