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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby vijayjohn » 2016-07-03, 23:03

Not really, I don't think. :D I'd just say "I finished the Estonian language test" and omit "that I had to write," since you (Irusia) already mentioned that test before. If you didn't omit it, I'd replace "write" with "take."

Also, if you want Christian movies in English and Spanish, I'm sure you can find plenty of those on YouTube! See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +cristiana and https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ian+movies. :) And there's always "the Jesus film" in English and Spanish (I think this one is available in various accents, too).

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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby księżycowy » 2016-07-04, 0:15

See, Vijay! I knew you'd fine something! :lol:

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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby vijayjohn » 2016-07-04, 1:24

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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby TheStrayCat » 2016-07-04, 13:54

Irusia wrote:[flag=]es[/flag] I'm looking for a good website with grammar explanations. My textbook is written entirely in Spanish, so I cannot use it.

My favorite textbook for beginners is Hugo's "Spanish in Three Months", which I believe you can find online. It's precisely the book I used a few years ago to start learning Spanish, and it gives a very good overview of both grammar and vocabulary while assuming no prior knowledge.

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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby aaakknu » 2016-09-13, 14:42

Thank you for your help and suggestions! :)

Summary of summer:

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In July I spend three weeks in Estonia and took part in the Estonian language course in Tallinn. There I spoke Estonian every day.
I also revised grammar, watched videos and wrote texts in the language. I read the first three chapters of "Arabella, mereröövli tütar" (a book for children in Estonian :) )

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I wrote two short text about my trip to Estonia and played on Duolingo (almost finished :D )

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I spoke English in Estonia with people from other countries, took part in English-speaking club. Also watched the movie "Love comes softly".

[flag=]fi[/flag] I bought the textbook "Soome keel iseõpijale" (in Estonian) and I'm planning to start soon.
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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby aaakknu » 2016-09-26, 18:32

[flag=]et[/flag] I have watched the film "Supilinna salaselts". It was the first time I watched a full movie in Estonian without subtitles.
[flag=]fi[/flag] I have almost finished three units of my textbook (there are two more exercises).
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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby aaakknu » 2016-11-10, 18:54

[flag=]et[/flag] Ma olen vaadanud kahte osa saatest "Eesti kosmos". Varsti vaatan ka kolmandat.
Nüüd mul on samuti iga neljapäev eesti kirjanduse tund! Eelmisel tunnil me rääkisime rahvuslikust ärkamisajast ja lugesime Kristjan Jaak Petersoni, Lydia Koidula, Juhan Liivi ja Heiti Talviku luuletusi. Samuti rääkisime ka "Kalevipojast" ja muistenditest.
Reedeti meil on vestlustund ja esmaspäeviti õpime grammatikat. Eesti keele tunnid on mu lemmikud!

[flag=]es[/flag] I've started listening to a Spanish podcast for intermediate learners and also started reading an adaptation of "El cantar de mio Cid".

[flag=]fi[/flag] Mun ensimäinen lyhyt juttu suomeksi: Terve!
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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby linguoboy » 2016-11-10, 19:03

Irusia wrote:[flag=]es[/flag] I started listening to a Spanish podcast for intermediate learners and also started reading an adaptated version/an adaptation of "El cantar de mio Cid".

[If aiming for UK English, replace "I started" with "I've started".]
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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby aaakknu » 2016-11-10, 19:13

linguoboy wrote:
Irusia wrote:[flag=]es[/flag] I started listening to a Spanish podcast for intermediate learners and also started reading an adaptated version/an adaptation of "El cantar de mio Cid".

[If aiming for UK English, replace "I started" with "I've started".]

Thank you! I've corrected this.

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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby linguoboy » 2016-11-10, 19:18

Irusia wrote:Thank you! I've corrected this.

You still have "adaptated", which is technically acceptable, but so many orders of magnitude less common than "adapted" that I think most speakers would assume it's an error. (I know it's confusing that the deverbal noun corresponding to adapt is adaptation, but that's English for you.)
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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby aaakknu » 2016-11-10, 19:29

linguoboy wrote:You still have "adaptated".

No. I've already corrected :)
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Re: TAC 2016 - Irusia - Estonian and English

Postby Saim » 2016-11-16, 19:01

Irusia wrote:
linguoboy wrote:You still have "adaptated".

No. I've already corrected it :)


In Slavic languages object-omission is really common, but in English we tend to retain the it.

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TAC January-June 2018 - Salajane

Postby aaakknu » 2017-12-13, 10:46

THE LANGUAGES I AM GOING TO LEARN:

(et) EESTI KEEL
Current level: B2
Goal: C1
My plans:
* learn 4000 new words
* read 5 books
* watch films and TV

(es) ESPAÑOL
Current level: B1~B2
Goal: C1
My plan:
* learn 4000 new words
* read 5 books
* watch films and TV

(pt-BR) PORTUGUÊS
Current level: A1
Goal: A2
My plan:
* learn 2000 new words
* read 1 book

(tl) TAGALOG
Current level: A1
Goal: A2
My plan:
* learn 2000 new words
* read 10 short stories

(id) BAHASA INDONESIA
Current level: A0
Goal: A2
My plan:
* learn 2000 new words
* read 10 short stories

Other plans: to learn about literature and history, translate poems.

Other languages:

1. Greenlandic, Finnish, Anindilyakwa
2. Tok Pisin, French, Guarani
3. Kuman
4. Karaim, USL, Crimean Tatar, Romani
5. Bulgarian, Macedonian, Albanian

Karaim, Bulgarian, Kuman

Goals till the end of the spring:

(et) Read 70 pages of a book.
(es) Read 70 pages of a book + finish grammar exercises in my textbook.
(tl) Finish the grammar lessons on SEAsite
(id) Finish the A1 textbook + the Duolingo course (English from Indonesian)
(en) Read A course in phonetics and read at least 50 pages of An introduction to functional grammar.

TASKS FINNISHED:

* Portuguese and Indonesian Duolingo courses
* Comprehensive Filipino Memrise course (1000+ words)
* Tagalog grammar lessons on seasite
* 3 first chapters of A1 Indonesian textbook
* 10 chapters of An introduction to phonological analysis
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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby Luís » 2017-12-13, 11:57

How do you plan to keep track of all the vocabulary? Anki? Any other SRS?
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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby aaakknu » 2017-12-13, 12:21

Luís wrote:How do you plan to keep track of all the vocabulary? Anki? Any other SRS?

Memrise.
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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby IpseDixit » 2017-12-13, 12:28

27 words a day on average... good luck with that :lol:

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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-12-14, 6:33

What books are you planning to read for each language?

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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby aaakknu » 2017-12-14, 7:10

vijayjohn wrote:What books are you planning to read for each language?

I haven't decided yet.
At the moment I am looking for some interesting books. I would like to read something historical and also something about travels.
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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby Luís » 2017-12-14, 13:39

For Spanish I recommend Gabriel García Márquez. He has some short novels (100-150 pages) that are interesting and not too hard to understand. For instance, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba or Crónica de una muerte anunciada.

For Portuguese, just stay away from Paulo Coelho :blah:
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Re: TAC 2018 - Irusia

Postby Car » 2017-12-14, 16:12

For Spanish, "El mundo amarillo: Si crees en los sueños, ellos se crearán" by Albert Espinosa isn't the worst read. While I didn't like it all that much (I gave it 3/5), it's short and rather simple to read. Even if the topic usually doesn't appeal to you, it's worth checking out.
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