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| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5130 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes  Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 1 of 13 17 December 2012 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Despite having been a member for quite some time, I've never really gotten around to making a log until
now. As of recently, however, I've joined some of the teams for next year's TAC, namely the ones that were of some kind of relevance to me and my language aspirations. BCMS Team CZ/SK Team *jäŋe/*ledús I'll be giving a short presentation of the languages I know, and what I expect to do in these languages in the foreseeable future. ENGLISH (hard to say, C1-C2?): I don't have any plans to study English as such, although I think we all know that learning a language never really stops, there's always more to learn. Of course, I'll be watching series and reading stuff on the internet, and using materials to and from English all the time (dictionaries, textbooks, some literature). GERMAN (depends on the skill, B1-B2): An old accomplice, and a language I rather like. I probably won't be doing a lot, but if I ever feel like it, I might one day start writing a bit in it just to practise. I also foresee using it as a travel language from time to time, since most people mistake me for a German. Apart from that, I may be reading a bit in German (I have a few books lying around) and listening to podcasts (from dradio.de). overall not a high priority. SPANISH (depends on the skill, anywhere between A1-B1): A language I did while in school some years ago, although I've since let it slip. I feel comfortable enough in some parts of the grammar, but actually using the language is something else. I could see myself going to Spain, so there may be some possibilities for using it. Apart from that, it's pretty much on the back burner. If anything, I'll be looking into some textbooks and listening to some podcasts, but probably not a lot. BCMS (B1-B2): This is a language that I'm very passionate about, to the extent of having studied it for a couple of years, but not currently (TMI from here on). Although I'm not entirely sure, I probably started at some point in '08 or thereabouts, and just kept going. I know a bunch of native speakers, and have one good friend from Bosnia, plus I'm always interested in travelling the countries in which the language is spoken, so that's what keeps me going. I'm more or less on the level just short of advanced, being able to read through a newspaper article without missing a lot, but not quite good enough for original language fiction. Speaking is not a great problem, but listening and understanding can sometimes be a little more sketchy, but that's nothing uncommon, I think. I'm slowly beginning to read some poetry in the language, mostly because it lends itself better to thorough inspection than novels etc., and I'll be doing more of this. Then there's listening to news podcasts, watching the occasional movie, watching English language movies and series with subtitles, and listening to lots of music from the area (lots of YUGO stuff, rock, punk and new wave, and of course my great passion, Bosnian Sevdalinka). Occasionally I'll break out of my comfort zone and find a gathering of Bosnians somewhere in my immediate vicinity. (In or around Randers, Denmark) I also recently purchased the 9000 word Serbian vocabulary book from Tpbooks.com, so I'll be trying to get through that over time, and possibly adding extra words as I come across them. I'm not exactly sure how or where to do it, but I'll start writing a bit in the language somewhere, either in a place like lang8 or here, in this very log. I'll see what happens. HUNGARIAN (very basic, probably still A1): A more recently addition to my collection, I believe the first thing I did was go through the 30 lessons of Pimsleur Hungarian about a year ago, ie. Dec. '11. Since then I've been doing it on-off with some breaks, probably due to the difficulty of the language, especially the vocabulary. I went through Colloquial Hungarian in one swift pull, but I need to do some more solid work involving drills or basic writing to really solidify what I know. As with a lot of languages, what draws me to Hungarian is the possible use of the language while travelling, and also to better understand the lyrics of Hungarian folk music. In case anyone was wondering, there's a huge amount of well-played Hungarian folk music available, so I can only implore people to discover it post-haste. My goal is to be able to write and speak the language at a usable level, perhaps somewhere around B1, ako Bog da. SLOVAK (A1-A2, plus a lot of Slavic transparency): Almost transparent from the start with an intermediate knowledge of another Slavic language, Slovak has been a lot easier to get into than eg. Hungarian. I started it up roughly one year ago with the short book Basic Slovak, and have since gone through Colloquial Slovak. I'm currently working on Krizom Krazom A1, which I'm finding quite easy, as could be expected. I'll be done with it soon, and I'm contemplating getting the 2 other books in the series, since I've liked the dialogues in the first one. Apart from that, I have a couple of Russian books for Slovak (courtesy of the internet, 'nuff said), and a bunch of podcasts to listen to, plus movies, music, and subtitles for English language series. Travelling is also on the table, naturally. As with Hungarian, I need to step it up a bit and start using the language more actively, both in writing and orally. I might try to find a Slovak person for a language exchange, but let's see how things work out. Hmm, this initial post is slowly reaching "too long, didn't read"-length, so I'll just finally add that I'm also doing a bit of Albanian, Esperanto and Slovenian, so expect them to pop up as well. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5130 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 2 of 13 17 December 2012 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Croatian/Serbian/Macedonian Subtitles for Series Here Subtitles for Movies and Series in ~50 Languages Here TV & RADIO STV Link The digital archive of the Slovakian public broadcaster. HRT Link1 =119&cHash=1">Link 2 Link 3 The first link is for downloading podcasts from the Croatian HRT's radio, and the second one is for their digital TV archive. The third is for a direct stream of HRT1. RTV SLO Link The public broadcaster in Slovenia. RTS Link The public broadcaster of Serbia. This link will take you to their digital archive, full of goodies. RTV Link (Radio Televizija Vojvodine) features programs mainly in Serbian, but also plenty of programs in other languages on their second channel. The list would be something like this: Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Pannonian Rusyn, Ukrainian, (Bunjevac) Croatian, Macedonian, Romani. Both channels can be streamed live with the occasional exception for foreign programs. Gruvanje Link Watch A program about the rock scene in Serbia, featuring rock and metal music. FEATURED SONGS By pass - Nedelja Link Pero Defformero - Tu Nema Ljubavi Link Zdob și Zdub - Moldovenii s-au născut Link HMBC "Vo Mello bis ge Schoppornou" Link Joan Manuel Serrat - El Drapaire Link Edited by Danac on 03 January 2013 at 6:28am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rosen93 Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4182 days ago 34 posts - 42 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 13 17 December 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Every time I see another member from Denmark, I get so excited. :)
Very cool group of languages, you got there. As to everybody else I wish you good luck with studies. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4234 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 4 of 13 19 December 2012 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hvala vam puno!! You totally made my day. So glad we're on the same team :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5130 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 5 of 13 19 December 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Nema na čemu! (ie. you're welcome). It's actually one of my preferred things to do: Find a series I like, and watch it with foreign subtitles. Although one might possibly spend time studying more efficiently in other ways, it's good for a more laid back approach to language learning/avoiding burnout. :) Also, keep an eye out for other links/materials I'll be posting in that same message. S poštovanjem, Peter 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5130 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 6 of 13 20 December 2012 at 1:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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I just thought I'd make a little entry on what I'm doing currently in relation to foreign
languages. Depending on the language, I'm using different materials: Anki, textbooks, series with subtitles, podcasts, and some original stuff. Today I found myself watching a great program on RTV (Radio Televizija Vojvodine) called "Gruvanje" Link. I can't describe it better than they do themselves in the beginning of each program: Ovaj program ne preporučujemo osobama koje ne vole Rock'n'Roll. We don't recommend this program for people who don't like Rock'n'Roll. And that's it. It's all about rock from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, although with the greatest focus on the domestic scene, understandably. You basically get a bit of everything, from the newest single by Bajaga to more metalized sounds. The scene seems to be alive and kicking, and I'd surely recommend the program to people who need a bit of rock (and a bit of foreign language) in their diet. To watch a bunch of the programs, hit "Odloženo" (=postponed, delayed) on the site my link leeds to. I'll be sharing a link to a couple of songs I liked: By pass - Nedelja Link In the nu-metal vein, it occasionally sounds a bit like (a poor man's) Tool. Still decent, though. Pero Defformero - Tu Nema Ljubavi Link A rather unceremonial mixture of some light metal, mixed with the singing style of Serbian Turbo- Folk, ululations and all. Perhaps it's more of a joke than anything else, but in that case, perhaps I'm just a "Seljak" (=peasant). Uživajte, drugovi i drugarice! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5131 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 7 of 13 21 December 2012 at 12:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for all the useful links.
We're in 2 teams together and share 3 foreign languages - Slovak(mainly passively), Hungarian and Spanish so your log will be a very interesting one for me. Good luck teammate x 2! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5130 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 8 of 13 03 January 2013 at 6:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Zdravo svima, I thought I'd just give a short update.
Sadly, the holidays have been rather lean in terms of language study in the Danac house, and the most I've been doing is watching Supernatural with subtitles. I could probably have watched something else, but Supernatural was one of not many series that had subtitles available in Slovak, so that was the linchpin. :) What I have been doing, however, is revisiting an old graded reader for Spanish that was a part of some of my earliest Spanish classes (about 10 years ago), namely a crime story called "El hombre que veía demasiado". It's quite short, and all in all, there's probably an hour's worth of reading in it, but it's been fun so far, so I may just get some more of these readers for Spanish. I also watched a program on HRT (Alpe Dunav Jadran) through their digital archives, and I'll be adding that link as well as some other goodies to my list of links. As an end note, I thought I'd add a couple of songs I've been enjoying lately. None of them actually tie in directly with any language plans I have, (they're in Romanian, Catalan and a kind of Alemannic) I just liked them. :) Zdob și Zdub - Moldovenii s-au născut Link HMBC "Vo Mello bis ge Schoppornou" Link Joan Manuel Serrat - El Drapaire Link Edited by Danac on 03 January 2013 at 6:14am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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