diaconia wrote: Col. "Hannibal" Smith: "Overkill is underrated!" So I'll be thinking about that when I'm struggling with my thirty! Oh! That describes this challenge to a T ! We are definitely going for overkill here! Statistics: Posted by rdearman — Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:56 pm ..read more

It's been three weeks since my last post and I've been doing classes 5 days/wk, 8 hours/day. When I said "new material will be added every day" in my last post, I don't think I realized then just how much material would be added. I have been absolutely swamped with information. It's been a real learning challenge. I wish I could say it was Russian, but alas, I've been studying anatomy/medicine fulltime. I'm working on the circulus arteriosus willisii as we speak. The material is not that hard --- it's just simply a lot. I have a test next week over the entire respiratory system, the diseases a ..read more

leosmith wrote: From your comments I could tell that I gave you the wrong thread. My bad; this is the one I was thinking of. As you can see, we've had this exact same argument before. If you want to add onto it, do you mind doing it in Cainntear's excellent Correction thread? It seems in that discussion we came to a better understanding. Statistics: Posted by Le Baron — Fri Jun 09, 2023 3:09 pm ..read more

Vocab overlap between French and Italian is huge, almost 90%. I’m not even a native speaker of French and it made learning Italian so much easier. Statistics: Posted by tastyonions — Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:59 pm ..read more

David Allen Martin does a general contrastive analysis English-German with Nicos Weg here (only ten lessons). I think he studied comparative phonetics but I don't know of any complete phonetics course he offers. His German accent is flawless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Q0YtEYK1g FREE GERMAN COURSE: Day 9 But the top man is Benjamin, Tastyonion's recommendation. Statistics: Posted by Kraut — Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:05 pm ..read more

17 mai 2023 Could you teach me about it, in the manner of a Vietnamese teacher of Geography?} SPANISH/TIẾNG VIỆT ··· wikipedia → chatGPT : prompt:{“Tiếng Tây Ban Nha (español), cũng được gọi là tiếng Castilla hay tiếng Y Pha Nho theo lối nói cũ, là một ngôn ngữ thuộc nhóm Iberia-Rôman của nhóm ngôn ngữ Rôman, và là tiếng phổ biến thứ 4 trên thế giới theo một số nguồn, trong khi có nguồn khác liệt kê nó là ngôn ngữ phổ biến thứ 2 hay thứ 3.” 18 mai 2023 EESTI KEEL/ESPAÑOL ··· wikipedia → chatGPT prompt:{“El idioma estonio (eesti keel) o estoniano​ es una lengua fino-ugria hablada por alrededor ..read more

This guy has a lot of good videos: https://www.youtube.com/@DeutschMitBenjamin/videos He really dives into it, sometimes analyzing an excerpt from a film or show and writing out sentences from the dialogue, explaining how different bits are reduced or pronounced differently depending on the background of the speaker. Statistics: Posted by tastyonions — Fri Jun 09, 2023 12:11 pm ..read more

Today is Assimil lesson 98, a final επανάληψη (= review) lesson. Not too much to handle, mostly a review of reflexive pronoun usage: ο εαυτός μου/σου/του/της/σας/τους = oneself / to oneself / with oneself, depending on case and context. Also a few notes on the very limited survival of the dative case in the form of certain fixed expressions, and on how to say fractional numbers. Added 22 cards from lesson 83 (1267 cards total). Studied about an hour so far today. Time spent on Greek: 154 hours (in 116 days) Tomorrow is the last lesson in the book! Statistics: Posted by tastyonions — Fri Ju ..read more

Raconteur wrote: Anyway this is the response I got: You can't take lessons for a low price and get great services. find another teacher Huh? First of all, kinda strange for a tutor to openly admit they are NOT offering a "great service" ... but okay. Also, it's not like I was lowballing them or haggling - they set their own price, I didn't set it for them. This tutor is also the most expensive one I contacted, which is fairly ironic. Also, how someone like that gets a lot of good reviews is beyond me... maybe he just had a bad day? Huh. This was probably a downwardly mobile person with f ..read more

Generally speaking, I do not seek out a tutor from day one. However, given how different Turkish is, I thought it would be a good idea to have 1h a week with a tutor in addition to my regular autodidact routine. Thankfully, I found a wonderful tutor. However, I had two rather strange encounters before that. First one was on the messaging stage. I made a shortlist of 4-5 tutors with good reviews in my price range that were claiming to specialize in teaching beginners, and I wrote them a quick intro. Not a novella, mind you. A really short introduction with a basic open-ended question. You b ..read more