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| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3638 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 9 of 33 05 January 2015 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Hello. I'm Lily/Elenia from England, and this is my first time taking part in the TAC.
I'm a student of French in my final year, and I'm taking part partially to boost my studies and partially so I don't give up on French as soon as I graduate. A (much more lengthy) explanation of my goals and methods can be found in post 48 of my log. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4989 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 33 05 January 2015 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I think this is a brilliant idea! One problem I often find in social conversations is that I don't always have the "right" word/expression to use when someone expresses a certain idea, or I overuse the same ones. Just simple stuff like "ah bon?", "en effet", "d'accord", to pick a few obvious French examples. Writing dialogues might help with that. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5173 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 11 of 33 06 January 2015 at 7:27am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Hello all! So in the attempt to set up a smart TV at my mother's this weekend, we somehow knocked out the internet so I'm just now returning to civilization. I just poured myself some port and am all set to get caught up with the goings-on at HTLAL and the TACs!
First to introduce myself: I am also studying French as an advanced language. It was my first and my dearest, having spent nearly two years living there. One of the high points of 2014 was my return visit back to see friends in the Paris region and Toulouse. I'm still pursuing the goal of getting my French to be all around as close to native-like as possible, despite this being an "impossible dream". I am still toying with the desire to immigrate. France is a longshot - I would need to develop professionally to the point a company would want to transfer me there, or finally find "the one" (which hasn't happened yet so I'm not relying on that one). I'm also considering Quebec which is quite a bit easier to immigrate to and I've heard wonderful things about Montreal, despite the bitter, freezing cold. I'm interested in taking the DALF - C1 would suffice for any immigration needs, even though C2 would be a nice "trophy". I've been saying that I've been intending on taking the DALF for quite a while now. My biggest challenge is procrastination and perfectionism, especially when it comes to practicing my writing. I get pretty easily overwhelmed which I need to work on. Other than that, I'll be continuing to maintain/level up my other skills. In addition, I'm still working on building my intermediate base in Irish and I'm in the intermediate phase of Spanish where I need tons and tons of exposure, drill, and practice to get up to advanced. Now some replies: It looks like quite a few of us so far are looking to work on writing skills - either in general or in preparation for exams. But if you're not, no worries! We'll try to make this group accommodating for all needs and goals (though writing is a great exercise for developing skills other than formal writing). It looks like we're all looking for some polish. And I'm sure we'd all love to have better speaking skills. We can keep these goals in mind when thinking of potential challenges - which I believe anyone should be able to propose (though we won't do them all at once of course).
Welcome on board @Elenia! I'll add you to our top post soon. @Expugnator and @garyb regarding dialogues: I remember seeing that challenge but I didn't follow it closely. I'd be interested in any write ups you or other participants did about the effect it had! I'm also thinking that typing out transcripts of TV/movie/video clips would also help. Since you're working with material that comes directly from a native source, you would be forcing yourself to formulate conversational language the way a native would. But it can be torture... Also, some precision on colloquial language: "standard" colloquial as you'd hear in most film/TV or more hanging out at the pub with your friends colloquial (which can delve into downright raunchy)? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4016 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 12 of 33 06 January 2015 at 9:34am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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sctroyenne, it's called A Beginner's Guide to Writing in English for University Study Turns out I really need it, although I had hoped I don't usually write just nonsense.
Maybe there are some courses is other languages, but I'm not interested in them so far. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6379 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 13 of 33 06 January 2015 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I'm not going to do that regularly, no worries :P And that's the kind of thing that English native speakers also get wrong a lot, and generally learn in a prescriptive manner anyway, so that a knowledge of Latin is more relevant here imo. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4948 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 14 of 33 06 January 2015 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I welcome corrections all the time here. In French, in German, in English, in Papiamento, anything. This is the place to get advanced.
As for the dialogues, I have to resume that somehow. The little I practiced was considerably helpful, as I kept using words that are really necessariy for daily-life conversation and might still be missing from my active vocabulary in my weaker languages. I am aiming at TV-colloquial language, that is what I take as a register I could apply on natives I'd meet...Talking at the pub would be too informal at this stage, though in French we can see all those borders so clearly that I think I'd be able to tell them apart. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5008 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 15 of 33 09 January 2015 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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As I said on the Advanced ESL Team Thread I just went through the whole TAC 2015 thread, but I'd rather ask here before making even more noise there. May I join this team? My new log is also linked as my 'home page' on the left.
I welcome corrections to any mistakes I make, in any language including my own, and the advanced languages I plan to 'study' are English and Spanish. For those who find this surprising, I'll say my reason to join the advanced teams (if I'm allowed) is that I'm not sure what further 'study' I can do at C2 and beyond. I mean, I routinely do stuff which I'll describe later, which is the same for both languages (and will be for my less advanced ones when I get somewhere with them) but I'd call that other names. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| anamsc2 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4341 days ago 85 posts - 186 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan, German Studies: French | Message 16 of 33 11 January 2015 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Hi everyone! I realized I haven't introduced myself in this thread yet. I'm anamsc2 and the advanced language I want to study is Spanish (and probably some Catalan).
Here is my log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=39723 1 person has voted this message useful |
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