はじめまして、マサさん。ekzemplaro wrote:Grüss Gott Julia san,
I will give it a try. Do you need/want special PL like word-by-word?I wonder if you voluntter to proof listen my recording.
I've recorded 'Trokko' by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Please visit Multilingual Short Works Collection 002 - Poetry & Prose.
)Nein. 'Standard', bitte.J_N wrote: Do you need/want special PL like word-by-word?
i confess i have done this before - i had to study latin for 8 years in high schoolArleneJoyce wrote:Sometimes, when I KNOW I'm looking up the same word I've looked up a half-dozen times before, I'm tempted to throw the dictionary across the room in a temper tantrum! I never do, though.
Just after high school I tried studying Polish at the local university and, as in the case of all the Polish faculties teaching European languages, the curriculum included a 1-year couse in Latin. My most vivid memory is that of re-taking a quiz testing the first 2 declinations. Basics. I think I made 3 attempts. At the 3rd one, the prof said "OK, but this is the last time 
" I failed to decline the given expression properly this time too, but the teacher wanted to just get rid of me so he gave me a passing grade . It's a really useful language in Poland, and being able to speak it would probably be a useful skill, but frankly I have mixed feelings about it, especially when I recall the grammar 
I will definitely give it a try.I decided to give your recording of Les Mystères de Paris a try, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I understand! (It helps that you speak so clearly, of course.) Now I'm nearing the end of the first volume so I'll be eagerly awaiting the second one when you finish it.neckertb wrote:I had a pleasant surprise myself the other day about German: I can PL in German
You might want to start listening to books in German is what I'm trying to say
I'll try to hurry then 
The idea is to blog about whatever you want and receive corrections from native speakers. The response usually comes within hours of posting an entry. The possible exceptions to this rule include obscure languages with few registered native speakers and- surprisingly- English. I suppose the case with the latter is that there are loads of learners and not enough willing native speakers to go round. Of course the quality of corrections will vary- some people will only fix the most glaring mistakes, while others will not only suggest all sorts of corrections, but also go to great lengths to explain why this option and not that. Of course, being a native speaker does not necessarily imply writing one's mother tongue perfectly so erroneous corrections can happen too. I was extremely active there for over two years and wrote about 500 entries (mostly in Spanish and Italian), over 99% of which got corrected.
). Doing so will move one's recording up the queue, so the more you record/transcribe for others, the less time you will have to wait for your submission to be recorded. If you don't want to register, you can still browse all the files and transcriptions. One very good thing is that all the recorded files are downloadable and accompanied by a written version. The biggest disadvantage is that when I last checked there weren't many people willing to record and unless you were requesting help with a popular language you could wait for a long time (after all these months I still haven't got any help with my several sentences in Icelandic).I just signed up and corrected one chap's post, and even though it wasn't that long, it took aaaaaages. Plus there were some phrasings that it was really hard to make-nice in English. So I can see why people would rather write-to-learn than correct.Piotrek81 wrote:The possible exceptions to this rule include obscure languages with few registered native speakers and- surprisingly- English. I suppose the case with the latter is that there are loads of learners and not enough willing native speakers to go round.
I can see I managed to get someone interested in this awesomely useful site. What's your username there? and I'm not much of a one for thinking up cool usernames. On Twitter, I couldn't have Cori, so I took CoriS (my surname starts with S.)From the internet sites I've tried so far for language learning, I like best Livemocha, LingQ and Duolingo. But I also like using textbooks.Piotrek81 wrote:Do you have a favourite method of language learning which works well for you? If so, which is it?
Can you recommend some good websites when one can learn (and perhaps also teach)?
Usually I type everything. I used to use a similar method to the one you described when keeping my lang8 blog. It worked and I did learn many useful words, mostly in Italian.Actually, you managed to get two of us interested. That was just the language tool I've been looking for. Thanks a bunch!!!Piotrek81 wrote:Wow, cool
And yes, you're right that sometimes it's very hard to turn sentences and phrases into nice and naturally-sounding ones.