Marah's log

[Marah]

That's true, writing critical essays about literature isn't everyone's cup of tea...

[thomas_dc]

Could you share the blogs you use for studying Daridja? This is a dialect I'd like to study myself at some point, but I find it hard without a lot of resources. I'm especially interested in the Algerian variety.

[Marah]

Could you share the blogs you use for studying Daridja? This is a dialect I'd like to study myself at some point, but I find it hard without a lot of resources. I'm especially interested in the Algerian variety.

Sure.
http://armchairarabist.blogspot.fr/
http://www.hellodarija.com/grammar/futu ... arija.html
There are more blogs and websites like these two but I haven't tried them.

[NoSkillsNLD]

Goedenavond Marah,

Dat is een indrukwekkende lijst met talen! Als je wilt, kan je me toevoegen op Skype als je wilt oefenen. Ikzelf ben net begonnen met Russisch leren en zou eerlijk gezegd wel wat hulp kunnen gebruiken. Misschien dat we elkaar kunnen helpen?

Succes!

[Marah]

Bedankt NoSkillsNLD! Dat zou leuk zijn maar ik ben bijna nooit op skype...

[Marah]

Oggi ho trovato un texto che mi piacerebbe leggere per migliorare la mia pronuncia:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1ENYluwPy0l

"Nella guerra economica che si sta svolgendo a valle della crisi del 2008, le economie europee sono alle prese con il dilemma fondamentale: cooperare o separarsi per salvare il salvabile.

La questione principale, al momento, è il rallentamento della crescita cinese e il peggioramento delle economie basate sul petrolio: generano meno esportazioni o meno prospettive di esportazione, quindi meno crescita dappertutto. In Europa, l’Italia ha segnato una crescita dello 0,7, meno delle aspettative, proprio perché soprattutto nell’ultima parte dell’anno si è avvertito questo rallentamento della crescita globale. La Germania continua a crescere senza aumentare o ridurre in modo significativo il ritmo, ma soprattutto grazie alla spesa pubblica. Nell’insieme l’Europa avverte che lo spazio economico non cresce abbastanza, la deflazione è in agguato, alcuni paesi tentano di sfilarsi. In uno spazio che si stringe, gli abitanti possono cooperare o tentare di fare i propri interessi. Il problema si sta scaricando essenzialmente sulle banche."
http://blog.debiase.com/2016/02/12/ital ... i-chi-puo/

[NoSkillsNLD]

Bedankt NoSkillsNLD! Dat zou leuk zijn maar ik ben bijna nooit op skype...

Zijn er programma's die je zelf gebruikt voor dit soort training?

Groetjes!

[Marah]

Facebook Messenger, forums via PMs, misschien ook whatsapp nu?, etc!

[Marah]

I'm thinking of working a bit more on MSA rather than dialects right now. I've been watching some of these videos intended for Arabic learners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3ys0q3FSE and it was as easy as it was pleasant. On the other hand, in France there are plenty of people to practice Darija with and I have lots of friends who are bilingual in Darija...

I'm also going back ten lessons in my Turkish Assimil book because my Anki reviews haven't been too easy lately.

[Marah]

I think it's fair to say that I've stopped using LWT. It's not for languages like Polish with lots of declensions... And I feel like my current method is working fine anyway.

While I was re-watching Tim Doner's videos on Youtube I realized that I was able to understand more than I thought I could in Arabic, that and his achievements have motivated me to keep studying MSA. It's a language that I study at a slow rythm, ie~ only spending 15minutes a day, learning ~6-7 new words, and some grammatical points but it seems to be enough to make progress.

Russian, however, has been my main focus lately. I've been spending over an hour a day on it, learning 20-30 words a day in ~10-15 sentences that I add into Anki, watching videos about grammatical points that I've neglected in favor of increasing my vocabulary, etc.

I also spend a decent amount of time on Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Italian but I don't add as many words because articles seem to be getting easier to understand. Podcasts in Italian are so easy to understand that I might consider dedicating that time to listening to other languages like Polish or Serbocroatian. I can definitely follow Podcasts in Swedish and Dutch but I'm not at the same level I reached in German so I guess I'll just have to keep learning new words for them to get more transparent.