Languid Language Learning

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Elenia
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby Elenia » Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:21 am

Brun Ugle wrote:That’s how I speak German too. I’m not really sure what the tenses are either, and when there’s one of those big verb-pile-ups at the end of a sentence, I never know what order to put the verbs in.

Sure, I can dialect with you sometime. You could probably find a better model though, like a real Norwegian maybe. But we can chat if you want. I should probably learn some Swedish myself, but I have so many more exciting languages to learn.


Oh, the verb pile-ups :cry:

I know a real Norwegian and one day I will ask her to dialect with me too. But I like you!

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German month took a step sideways yesterday and maybe the day before. I've been really lazy. I need to write about three pages of Swedish to hand in by the end of this week (officially the deadline is today but the teacher said she needed them latest before she leaves work on Friday). I need to start on another essay to hand in next week. I need to do reading and German. I need to finish knitting my sock.
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby Brun Ugle » Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:44 am

Elenia wrote: I know a real Norwegian and one day I will ask her to dialect with me too. But I like you!

I like you too. :D

Sometimes it’s easier and more comfortable to talk to a non-native too. And it’s often easier to talk to friends than to find someone specifically for a language exchange. Once I got used to talking to Zenmonkey in German and Spanish instead of English, our language exchanges turned out to be really helpful and lots of fun.

I accidentally forgot to hide my profile on Italki and now I have a language exchange with a German lady. She’s nice, but we don’t really know each other, so it still feels really awkward. And I have to come up with a topic for next time. Having to come up with a topic makes my mind go completely blank.
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby Elenia » Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:16 pm

German month didn't go quite as planned. Does anyone have a link to a table for German sentence structure? Because I could really use one. Or is that just a Swedish (Scandinavian?) thing?
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:38 pm

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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby DaveAgain » Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:31 pm

Elenia wrote:German month didn't go quite as planned. Does anyone have a link to a table for German sentence structure? Because I could really use one. Or is that just a Swedish (Scandinavian?) thing?
Projetbabel.org has something like that.
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby Elenia » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:13 pm

Well, it's been a while.
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby tiia » Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:39 am

Elenia wrote:Well, it's been a while.

Great to see you again here. :)

I had been wondering already, where you had gone.
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby Dagane » Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:25 am

Welcome back :D .

Hope you had a good time in... was it Sweden? That's the last thing I heard from you before I went away from here for a long while.
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Re: Languid Language Learning

Postby Elenia » Sat Aug 15, 2020 3:17 pm

Thanks everyone, in particular tiia and Dagane. I guess I just fell away entirely, I'm not sure why?

Still in Sweden, and I hope to be here for a while yet. Immigration woes, however. I'm currently (desperately) writing a Bachelor's thesis and languidly (of course) getting back into Finnish. Duolingo and sometimes Clozemaster are the current order of the day. When I don't feel like all my brain power has to be used on the essay, I'll return to one of my textbooks, but those two are doing for now, just about. Enough to keep me wanting more, certainly.
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