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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:53 pm

Now on the third tome of Les Rois Maudits and it's teaching me a lot about medieval France. I knew nothing about the house of Capet going into this, so.. and it's nice to read more French.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:38 am

I have some time for more than a few lines, so here's a multilingual entry:

FR: J'ai fini de lire le troisième tome de "Les Rois Maudits", concernant la dynastie capétienne régnant dans le XIV-ème siècle en France, d'abord sous Philippe Le Bel (avec l'épithète le Roi de fer) et puis, suite à sa mort, Louis le Hutin (un règne très court, marqué par l'absence de prétendants au trône de sexe masculin). Ce qui arrive est un réseau d'intrigues politiques de la part des notables de l'époque: on voit Charles de Valois et Enguerrand de Marigny disputer pour l'influence sous le règne de Hutin, culminant en la pendaison de Marigny (cette chose-ci ne constitue pas un spoiler car l'histoire est basé sur des faits réels, bien que les détails soient inventées et donc fictifs).

Il me restent quatre livres de plus, mais je me suis dirigée à un autre livre, étant...

SV: Svinalängorna. Det här är en roman skriven om finska invandrare i Ystad (Skåne) av en finlandssvensk författare, Susanna Alakoski. Jag har inte än läst färdigt, men det verkar peka på fattigdom och invandrarnas problem i Sverige. Sociala problem som alkoholism är dagens rätt här, och eftersom jag har slutit dricka sprit för några år sen på grund av medicinska skäl verkar det mer skrämmande ändå. Tomma ölburkar och vinflaskor står i lägenheter i samma grad som otvättade underbyxor. Vad får man göra under kalla vintrar där det fryser omkring huset och pengar räcker inte till? Dricka ihjäl sig verkar vara svaret.

ESP: También vi un documental sobre el universo, pero este no me dijo muchas cosas nuevas, entonces lo voy a dejar al lado porque no hay nada que deciros.

ROM: Pâna la urmă am văzut un interviu cu autorul Cristina Nemerovschi, care a scris 15 cărți peste șapte ani. Efortul eroic ale lui a demonstrat că e posibil sa facă ce anume vreți, doar dacă ai volițiune și chef să o-faci. Nemerovschi mai e cunoscută pentru limbajul lui, care e foarte modern și cu blestemele - pentru a arată limbajul tinerilor chiar e necesar să scria așa. Alte temele repetate în cărțile ei sunt familii rupte, probleme cu droguri, sex, și rock n roll (mai specific heavy metal, care mi-a atras către munca ei). Dar mi se pare că e o femeie foarte cuminte și sclipitoare, cu creierul bine fixat la loc.
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Need improvement: PO, IS, HE, JP, KO, HU, FI
Passive: AF, DK, LAT
Dabbled in: BRT, ZH (SH), BG, EUS, ZH (CAN), and a whole lot more.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:29 pm

my talk at the Polyglot Gathering

This is my talk from the Polyglot Gathering, which you can now watch in its 44-minute glory. I sound a little dorky when I laugh at my own jokes, but there we go.

This presentation is mostly in English, partly in Spanish, and there's a few lines in other languages. (Yes, there are hiccups and warts and all. I wish I could edit my grammar mistakes out, but you can see how well I do with all the languages in general).

Don't worry if you don't understand something the first time round - I speak very slowly.
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Languages: German (N), English (C2+), Korean (B2), Persian (A2), Portuguese (passive A2/B1) , French (remnants), Mandarin (bits and pieces)
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Postby druckfehler » Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:10 pm

tarvos wrote:Korean feels a little daunting. Which means I'll probably study more Korean, knowing me. :roll:


Great to read that you're studying Korean again!

And interesting talk at the Gathering!
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Passive: AF, DK, LAT
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:46 pm

Thanks.

I've finished Svinalängorna and have now moved on to Vasily Aksyonov's Поколение зимы. Haven't got very far and it's a reasonably sized book so it will probably take me a while to turtle through it.
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Passive: AF, DK, LAT
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:01 pm

ES: Ya que estamos en diciembre, puedo decir que con el único mes que nos queda el cifre y tamaño de mis alcanzamientos no han sido tan impresionantes como en los años pasados. Sin embargo, lo que sí se ha visto aumentado es la cantidad de libros leídos, y por extensión, el nivél de comprensión escrita asociada con tal actividad. Reconozco que tengo que compensar para este focus sobre el escrito, y desde entonces he empezado a ver mas documentales y otras peliculas en otros idiomas, principalmente en español, pero no cabe duda de que siguen mas idiómas después. He encontrado un canal de Youtube con unos cuantos series de National Geographic y History Channel traducidos al castellano y desde luego les estoy viendo a diario.

Lo demás ya no es tan importante dado que no vivo en el extranjero y por lo tanto no tengo tantas oportunidades de practicar mis idiomas a diario.
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Passive: AF, DK, LAT
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:13 pm

6 useful pieces of advice concerning the Spanish constitution

This is heavily political content, so I'd rather any discussion take place on the blog. My goal with posting this is to show the type of antics I get up to in preparing for the DELE C2 exam.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:47 am

In my input quest I have stumbled on a Soviet series I am watching in its entirety called Семнадцать мгновений весны. It's a spy series, and its lead character, Stierlitz, has become a byword in Russia and the butt of a million jokes. Here's just a few samples of Stirlitz jokes:

Умер Штирлиц. Подходит к воротам рая, а апостол Пётр его не пускает: дескать, грехов много, и нацистам служил, и безбожникам-коммунистам. Штирлиц начинает спорить. К ним подходит архангел Михаил. Узнав, в чем дело, устало машет рукой и говорит Пётру: - Пропусти. Мы все равно ничего не докажем.

Штирлиц пьянствует с Мюллером.
Мюллер:
- Штирлиц, я знаю, вы русский резидент. Да, мы проиграли войну, но неужели вы думаете, что дома вас ждёт слава? Вас расстреляют или сошлют в Сибирь.
- Я так не считаю. Разведчика на родине ждёт почёт и уважение.
- Скажите ещё, что бывший шпион может управлять Россией, а в Германии будет канцлер в юбке. Вы перепили!
Штирлиц ухмыльнулся...

Только я заметила, что в фильме «Семнадцать мгновений весны» у всех фашистов в досье написано «связей, порочащих его, не имеет», а у Штирлица - «в связях, порочащих его, замечен не был»?

Мюллер заходит в свой кабинет и видит Штирлица, роющегося у него в сейфе с секретными документами.
- Что вы здесь делаете, Штирлиц? - спрашивает Мюллер.
- Трамвая жду - отвечает Штирлиц.
- Трамваи здесь не ходят.
- Они нигде не ходят, у трамваев нет ног, - парировал Штирлиц.
Мюллер вышел из кабинета покурить и обдумать сложившуюся ситуацию. А когда он вернулся, Штирлица не было в кабинете.
"Уехал" - подумал Мюллер.
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:11 am

I have moved on from Stierlitz' adventures and have returned to Aksyonov and his description of the Soviet era of Russia, but my reading is going quite slow lately (my energy levels are really, really low). I don't really have much energy at all to do much studying right now and I'm trying to kill the time until January (for those not in the know, I start HRT then). Honestly it's a miracle I've done so much at all this year.
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Passive: AF, DK, LAT
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Re: Three-Horned Bull from the Netherworld - Tarvos' Log

Postby tarvos » Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:51 pm

I am slowly turtling onwards with Aksyonov's book. This tome is quite large and it concerns the life of a fairly well-off family during early Soviet times (think the interbellum, right after the death of Frunze, with the political tensions between the Stalinists and Trotskyists.) It also details the differing political opinions that some of these family members and how they interlock. The real victory isn't my insight into the early communist period, though, but rather the victory of my Russian after all these years. I'm finding it easier and easier to read Russian and my puzzle logic (helping to deduce what goes where in those interminable Russian sentences) is carrying me through much quicker than I'd ever imagine.

Not that my Russian is perfect, mind... but that's something I could happily settle for.

Besides that, I am reading Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, but that book is in English. Although it's a really interesting book (on skepticism and why pseudoscience is silly), I'll talk about it in detail somewhere else. Much of what I have to say on that topic concerns religion, spirituality and belief and that belongs in another corner of the internet (usually my blog). That said, I'd recommend the book to everyone out there who is only the slight bit interested in the scientific method and how we make decisions.
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