Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

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Re: Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

Postby tarvos » Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:21 am

FI: Minun luultavasti pitää kirjoittaa suomeksi tänne, sitten yritän!

Viime aikoin paljon usein puhuin suomea, ei vaan tyttöystävääni kanssa mutta myos opettajaan. Hitaasti opiskeleen uusia sanoja, yritän ymmärrä parempi suomea ja joskus, kun soittaamme, minä yritän puhua suomea. Se on edelleen vaikeaa, koska en ymmärrä kaikki, mutta yritämme!

Apart from that, my internship portfolio was approved, and I just need my last assignment to come in and be approved in order to get my diploma as an interpreter! A partir de septiembre, seré intèrprete profesional, así que ya sabéis a quién deberiáis llamar siempre que haga falta una intèrprete de holandés al inglés o español (o inglés al español).

Estoy muy feliz y me encanta la idea de trabajar en el ámbito de idiomas como intèrprete con una formación profesional! Me he dejado la piel, así que merezco este título.
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Re: Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

Postby Tristano » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:21 am

Hi Tarvos,
gefeliciteerd met jouw diploma! Ga je jezelf specialiseren/ben je al gespecialiseerd in een specifieke domein (zoals medisch, legaal, architectuur enzo.)?
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Postby tarvos » Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:20 pm

Tristano wrote:Hi Tarvos,
gefeliciteerd met jouw diploma! Ga je jezelf specialiseren/ben je al gespecialiseerd in een specifieke domein (zoals medisch, legaal, architectuur enzo.)?


Ben niet gespecialiseerd nog. Heb wel meer kennis van technische en wetenschappelijke onderwerpen dus daar zit wel een toekomst in.
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Re: Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

Postby Tristano » Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:46 pm

Helder. Heel veel succes met je nieuwe baan!
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Re: Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

Postby tarvos » Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:37 pm

Moikka!

I haven't been doing that much as I've been taking a well-deserved break from anything study-related for the past week. Which makes sense as I have now officially graduated and I'm just waiting for the diploma to arrive. Which means that all my next steps will involve the (belly-up) labour market, which is going to be a cute little hell to navigate given how much the pandemic... well... destroys everything.

Apart from that I have finished the first two books in the Enigmas de los Dioses del México Antiguo trilogy by Sofia Guadarrama Collado and am on the third now. It's all in Spanish, of course, but the content is like a mixture of ancient Mexican history (I say Mexican because they treat a few different people, namely the Mayas, the Aztecs, and the Totonacs) and the modern part of the story... is just basically a Mexican detective soap opera. I'm not that down with the modern-day story - it's very flat and the characters have no personality (or they're just plain disgusting like Urquidi). So I don't know whether I like it, hate it, or whether it falls somewhere in between. There's definitely a Mexican tinge to the Spanish though and that's fun for me because I like these different regional variants of Spanish.

Apart from that I've been speaking a lot of Finnish to my girlfriend lately (much more than usual, because we normally speak English - but I'm getting the hang of this Finnish thing slowly, even though my Finnish is still absolutely atrocious) and I've also been watching Death Note in the original Japanese, but with Spanish subtitles (gracias, Netflix-san!)

However my Japanese is Even Poorer than my Finnish, so...well... you can guess. I can make out some words though! But I'd have to put in an enormous, concerted effort to learn Japanese right now and I think Finnish is way more important.
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Postby tarvos » Sun Aug 30, 2020 11:44 pm

A cute little "poem" that works in some multilingual stuff! The languages are obvious, but what's the topic? :D

Söpis

Extraño tu aliento
Sin reconocer tu odor
Lo que tenemos entre manos
Sí que se considera amor

Söpis
Missä olet, muruseni?
Edelleen odotan sinua
Meillä varmasti on rakkaus
Koska rakastat minua

Söpis
Waarom ben ik verplicht
Nog een dag langer te lijden?
Ik wil niet langer meer
De berichtgeving vermijden

Söpis
I’m yours and you
Are definitely mine
How long till the countdown
Runs out of time?

Söpis
Extraño tu presencia
Sin reconocer tu odor
Lo que tenemos tú y yo
Sí que se considera amor
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Postby tarvos » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:09 pm

A few things happened the past few days:

Of course I've spoken Finnish (because love and all that romantic stuff!). But I also bought a few new books while in Leiden, which include an Aapinen (a my first ABC, but in Finnish), and a book in Romanian, Czech and Swedish respectively.

Currently I am reading the book "La perfezione non é di questo mondo" by Daniela Mattalia, which is of course in Italian!

But also, my graduation ceremony was today, and our teachers had to send in a funny anecdote about all of us. And my teacherjust wrote me one line: "Eres la puta ama". That was my description. A cool chick who is the effin' boss. My other teacher called me "naturally talented from day 1". So I suppose everyone else had more faith in me than I did!

That phrase has a backstory - for those of us you who don't know, it's Nairobi's catchphrase in La Casa de Papel. My teacher used to say this when I was being anxious, nervous, or screwing things up - she used to tell me "remember, you're the f*** boss", and then I'd go on to ace the exercise instead. Nairobi said it to Alison Parker in season one as a way to get her to overcome her lack of self-confidence. I must have driven her crazy with my nerves and antics, but I did everything in one go.

La puta ama is actually a generally common phrase in Spain (el puto amo for men), but the vulgar "puta" in a graduation ceremony made me chuckle.
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Re: Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

Postby Dagane » Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:31 pm

tarvos wrote:but the vulgar "puta" in a graduation ceremony made me chuckle.

OK, that's funny :lol:. It would definitely make me chuckle too.

Do you also speak Romanian, Czech and Swedish or you bought the books in a moment of inspiration? EDIT: OK, so you do. There're so many letters in your profile that I wasn't sure anymore :oops:.
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Postby tarvos » Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:54 pm

She's very casual and since I had no classmates due to them all dropping out and/or just not being there it was just the two of us usually. Which means she got to crack that whip she so loves.

The "la puta ama" was an in-joke that came from us having common interests and watching La casa de papel. She said she couldn't get around not using that phrase to describe me, it was pretty fitting. One because she used to use it as encouragement like I said above, and also to show her respect for me because I've been through hell and back again health-wise. She used to ask if I didn't want to just call it quits for the day and I refused to do that, I gave it all even though ella siempre me machacaba un montón. So she thinks I'm a hardcore cool chick because I had to do everything alone and while my liver was destroying me and my mental health and later corona messed me up. So she just said it out of respect.

She still hasnt sent me the la puta ama t shirt she promised me though so
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Re: Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

Postby tarvos » Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:20 am

I finished that Italian book and have moved on to Agatha Christie's N or M? (N sau M in Romanian) which I am now over halfway done with because it's easy to just read when you have to spend the evening preparing for a hospital exam and your habitual location is The Washroom.

I've also been conversing a bit in Polish with someone I met on Interpals, but my Polish is horribly broken (it sounds like a weird mixup of Polish with strong Czech and Russian influences, especially in spoken Polish this is very audible as I have a noticeable Czech lilt to my Polish, apart from the obvious Dutch). In writing I'll sometimes use an expression where I get corrected that's clearly just me calquing Russian into Polish. It's hard because I'm extremely used to Russian - that's a language that's sort of ingrained in my soul - so my Slavic spidey sense always goes into Russian mode straight away. I've managed to sort of change that for Czech (even though I am by far not as good at Czech as I am at Russian - I would consider Russian a language I could potentially learn fairly quickly to the level I can interpret it, whereas Czech would be much more of a challenge in that respect). Polish is somewhere in the middle between those two languages and I'm clearly not half as good at that as I am at either Czech or Russian, so you can imagine the weirdness of my Polish.

Not that it's outright terrible or anything. Just... broken. It's understandable and it gets the job done, but my Polish truly is at the "I get by" level.
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