Team Me: Foxing Around

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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:26 am



You can search the log for Polish. There aren't that many hits. Polish is a sister language to Russian and in this log you'll find references to Slavic languages.

On the previous page I wrote:

Polish (May - October 2018) 200 hours.
I am guessing that by January the total number of hours grew to 300. I almost exclusively listened to audiobooks. In May-June I listened to Polish music. My first book was a children's audiobook about Greek mythology. I highly recommend children's books such as this one. I mostly listened to Stephen King and Norman Davies. I didn't listen sequentially. I would start at the beginning but then I would go back and replay certain chapters. Next time I would start with chapter 4 etc. I maybe looked up 20-30 words. I learned some basic spelling rules from the music videos. Today I simply spoke the unknown word into the phone and pasted it in the search bar. I've read maybe 2 online articles.I didn't use any texts. On my Chromebook I've stored a few Polish magazines but before I get to these I should really start reading in Russian. While this was going on I've been listening mostly to Russian, Portuguese and some other languages.i forgot to log some things.

In May-June S King was incomprensible for me in Polish. Today I am a happy consumer of Polish audiobooks. I am still running into unknown words or words that are heavily disguised.

As I am writing this I'm watching Makkhi in Hindi (ok I'm reading the subtitles).The point being here that Polish is not a priority.
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:17 am

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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:11 am

Jpn>Ru

Любишь меня, люби и мою собачку!
Я люблю тебя но не могу на тебе жениться.

Looove it!

Jan 1 - Jan 15 POL mostly (S King). Some RU.

Mogę trochę uchylić okno?
S King, Christine
Speechnotes app

uchylić - crack open
http://www.diki.pl

I learned how to tell people to pepper off. That and a few other things.

I like this book very much language-wise. I'm also listening to Mr Mercedes. S King is my Hairy Potter.

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Jan 15 - 17
ES, POR, POL audiobooks, mostly. UY.
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:02 am



S King in Polish, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese (in that order). I should throw in some German and French.

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1922 - I've replayed the opening scene in Russian many times. Real useful and really well done by the voice artist.
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Postby reineke » Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:21 pm

reineke wrote:Last year Russia’s Eksmo-owned LitRes announced its "goal to boost its current 7,000 audiobooks on offer to 50,000 of them—in five years".
https://pda.litres.ru/audioknigi/


Russian speakers can also choose from a wide array of quality self-published audiobooks.

Meanwhile, Spanish-speaking audiobook enthusiasts, all 40 of them, are hanging on ivoox and the books sound as if they were dictated over the phone by a man from Peru.

“In English, audio publishers are doing backlist titles or new releases, because all the classics have been done,” Reyes says. “But in Spanish, they are not done yet.” He points to such authors as Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende. “Their great books are not produced on audio yet in Spanish. I just finished working on eight books from the Isabel Allende catalogue [for Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U].”

Publishing Rides the Growth in Audio
Demand for audiobooks expands, and publishers add more Spanish-language titles
Nov 03, 2017

Hopefully things will improve soon.
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:31 am





Too...much (forum etc) input.
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:52 pm



Stary, ale jary.
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:40 am

POL

Rodzinna Europa – esej biograficzny Czesława Miłosza Done.
S King Christine Done. I'll listen to it from time to time.
Misery Mostly done.
Mr Mercedes CD 1
A couple of magazine articles and 20-30 forum posts.

ESP
Needful things 1/2 (ivoox)
Recommended.
The Running Man

RU - Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago (a few hours). I like the conversational style but this book is probably appropriate only for advanced learners.
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby Teango » Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:11 am

reineke wrote:RU - Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago (a few hours). I like the conversational style but this book is probably appropriate only for advanced learners.

That's pretty impressive, you sly fox. :) Reading this in the original is on my wish list too, but I'm still finding words I don't know in Doctor Aybolit and Barmaley, so it could be a while. I'm currently drifting through Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", which incidentally touches on related themes and is also patched together in 7 parts. I'm enjoying the English translation so much, I'm tempted to learn Czech just for the hell of it (once I've mastered Doctor Aybolit of course)...
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Re: Team Me: Foxing Around

Postby reineke » Fri Jan 25, 2019 1:49 pm

"Doctor Concocter sits under a tree, He's ever so clever, he has a degree!"
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