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reineke wrote:

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Good Lord, has it been four years?

Vratija se Šime.

Update.

reineke wrote:

reineke wrote:
Mar 25, 2018
0 hours
Audiobook (US pulp)
Incomprehensible. I can recognize the occasional word. I sort of feel like dropping the idea.
Audiobook, (HC Andersen)
I can understand some mini scenes and narrative kernels. Very motivating

Prior exposure: a couple of hours of TV watching in the 1990s.

June 4
11 hrs
"Co za smród, co za smród, kurwa, co za smród!"

I can now sort of follow that pulp audiobook.

That incomprehensible pulp audiobook is now mostly comprehensible.

Glad to see you back around

Ani wrote:Glad to see you back around

Thanks Ani. You're always a welcome visitor here. I would love to see if you can revive your Italian. Regarding your trip, stay away from "friendship" bracelet peddlers if you're around Sacré-Cœur. Street crêpes are inferior to palacinke but you should try some anyway. The last time I was there, les Escaliers de Montmartre smelled like pee. Otherwise the place was very romantic. Have fun.

reineke wrote:The last time I was there, les Escaliers de Montmartre smelled like pee. Otherwise the place was very romantic.

I woke up like a bear with a sore head this morning (having been kept awake most of the night), but these two lines quickly put a smile back on my face.

reineke wrote:

Ani wrote:Glad to see you back around

Thanks Ani. You're always a welcome visitor here. I would love the see if you can revive your Italian. Regarding your trip, stay away from "friendship" bracelet peddlers if you're around Sacré-Cœur. Street crêpes are inferior to palacinke but you should try some anyway. The last time I was there, les Escaliers de Montmartre smelled like pee. Otherwise the place was very romantic. Have fun.

You know it doesn't feel much like reviving Italian as learning it from scratch. I don't know. There are just so many vowels. I remember next to nothing except that we dropped an awful lot of those vowels. I keep thinking I'll give it a proper shot soon because I'd like to be in good shape before next year's potential trip. I'm probably underestimating the task even still, thinking I can make a quick run of Assimil & watch a bunch of TV.
Given my poor performance with Russian, & flirting with Icelandic, what do you think I should do for Italian? I could just recklessly start now and try to juggle 3-4 languages.. or wait till after the Paris trip & start then?

I will definitely watch out for peddlers. The last time we were at Montmartre we took le funiculaire up and I have no recollection of the stairs but I will take your advertisement to heart. I am so excited to eat all kinds of stuff -- and then just hop back on the plane before any of it has time to make me too sick

I would only do French.

After that trip I would spend time listening to easy oral stuff. You shouldn't have much trouble with Italian.

I spent 15 mins on Japanese and I already heard...
denwa bango (Ataru is always trying to pick up dates)
kimi wa... I googled that a while back because I figured it's some kind of informal way of addressing someone
Someone explained it on Hi native:
"kimi　きみ　君
male ~~> female normal a little formal
female ~~> male casual between young people
boss ==> his men normal
men under boss ==> boss never"
Mehehe
Tasukete kure - a cartoon classic
Shikata ga nai - good old Clavell taught me that one
kono, dono ichiban etc...

The problem with Japanese is that I spend maybe 20 minutes on it every month.

Today was mostly about Polish though.