What are your summer language-related plans?

[Okier - chan]

Work on my japanese, Korean, and Mandarin I guess.
Maybe add some french reading and dutch lessons to the list ~  

[Puuya]

Okier - chan

Work on my japanese, Korean, and Mandarin I guess.
Maybe add some french reading and dutch lessons to the list ~

That'll be a hard hard summer!  

[Seinaru ite]

I went to a different library than I usually do, it's a bit farther away but it has a lot of books for foreign languages. I checked out at least one book for each language I'm learning. A textbook for Mandarin and Korean since I'm still a beginner at those. A book of short stories, and even better, a Garfield book in Spanish. xd And then Harry Potter in Japanese.

I had good intentions but so far things aren't going so well. I breezed through the Garfield book and these short stories are boring. I've read through a few chapters in Harry Potter but it's really discouraging how slowly I read through it. And then with Mandarin and Korean, I need to learn last lesson's vocabulary to continue to the next lesson. But the thing is that I'm buried in overdue Anki cards so I can't get around to learning the new vocabulary. Whenever I sit down to do Anki I get distracted. crying  

[Colonel Gabrielle]

Puuya

Colonel Gabrielle

Well, yes, I will 8D But last summer I kind of didn't do anything, and that was really boring :/

I guess it'll be how my summer will pass this year!

Duh, sometimes we need some rest from all the working, right? ;D
I planned on doing nothing as well, but back then I didn't know studying German would be this hard xDD  

[iNob]

Puuya

iNob

Finish a couple of books in Spanish. Mainly Ficciones by Borges and La isla bajo el mar by Isabel Allende. The latter is not my cup of tea, but it has a decent Central American/Caribbean Spanish lexicon.

Besides that I want to start learning the basics of Italian so I am decently prepared for the fall. IF ANYONE WANTS TO HELP ME WITH ITALIAN VIA SKYPE OR ANY OTHER FORM OF COMMUNICATION SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE PLEASE!!!!

I'm a double major. My first is Romance Languages (French and Italian) and the other is Spanish. So I will be starting 101 classes in both French and Italian. (I'm already fluent in Spanish . . . which will make those classes very easy.)

I Have to say Isabel Allende is a great writer...her works are great...!

She is a great writer in Spanish too. She is one of the most famous Chilean ones next to Neruda. But I´m not really into her style . . . I guess. Especially not in La isla bajo el mar. It is a decent book, but I don´t like the formatting where the main character is barely in it and there is all this backstory that one must get through before actually meeting the protagonist. It reminds me of A Tale of Two Cities where the actual story does´t start until halfway through the book. x P  

[Puuya]

iNob

Puuya

iNob

Finish a couple of books in Spanish. Mainly Ficciones by Borges and La isla bajo el mar by Isabel Allende. The latter is not my cup of tea, but it has a decent Central American/Caribbean Spanish lexicon.

Besides that I want to start learning the basics of Italian so I am decently prepared for the fall. IF ANYONE WANTS TO HELP ME WITH ITALIAN VIA SKYPE OR ANY OTHER FORM OF COMMUNICATION SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE PLEASE!!!!

I'm a double major. My first is Romance Languages (French and Italian) and the other is Spanish. So I will be starting 101 classes in both French and Italian. (I'm already fluent in Spanish . . . which will make those classes very easy.)

I Have to say Isabel Allende is a great writer...her works are great...!

She is a great writer in Spanish too. She is one of the most famous Chilean ones next to Neruda. But I´m not really into her style . . . I guess. Especially not in La isla bajo el mar. It is a decent book, but I don´t like the formatting where the main character is barely in it and there is all this backstory that one must get through before actually meeting the protagonist. It reminds me of A Tale of Two Cities where the actual story does´t start until halfway through the book. x P

Oh I see... I have read a poem of Neruda long time ago! It was about freedom!.. anyway the whole Magic Realism genre is great...!
I didn't know what to reply really!  

[iNob]

Puuya

iNob

Puuya

iNob

Finish a couple of books in Spanish. Mainly Ficciones by Borges and La isla bajo el mar by Isabel Allende. The latter is not my cup of tea, but it has a decent Central American/Caribbean Spanish lexicon.

Besides that I want to start learning the basics of Italian so I am decently prepared for the fall. IF ANYONE WANTS TO HELP ME WITH ITALIAN VIA SKYPE OR ANY OTHER FORM OF COMMUNICATION SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE PLEASE!!!!

I'm a double major. My first is Romance Languages (French and Italian) and the other is Spanish. So I will be starting 101 classes in both French and Italian. (I'm already fluent in Spanish . . . which will make those classes very easy.)

I Have to say Isabel Allende is a great writer...her works are great...!

She is a great writer in Spanish too. She is one of the most famous Chilean ones next to Neruda. But I´m not really into her style . . . I guess. Especially not in La isla bajo el mar. It is a decent book, but I don´t like the formatting where the main character is barely in it and there is all this backstory that one must get through before actually meeting the protagonist. It reminds me of A Tale of Two Cities where the actual story does´t start until halfway through the book. x P

Oh I see... I have read a poem of Neruda long time ago! It was about freedom!.. anyway the whole Magic Realism genre is great...!
I didn't know what to reply really!

I don´t believe Neruda´s poems should have ever been translated.
Spanish is the romance language of poetry . . . so trying to make it work in any other language is just a tragedy.
Even a great translator can´t capture every meaning or the way in which words are used to emphasize certain points or ideas based on rhythm.
And I don´t believe La isla bajo el mar is considered magical realism. I assume you are talking about La casa de los espíritus. (The house of the spirits? no idea what the title is in English)  

[Puuya]

iNob

Puuya

iNob

Puuya

iNob

Finish a couple of books in Spanish. Mainly Ficciones by Borges and La isla bajo el mar by Isabel Allende. The latter is not my cup of tea, but it has a decent Central American/Caribbean Spanish lexicon.

Besides that I want to start learning the basics of Italian so I am decently prepared for the fall. IF ANYONE WANTS TO HELP ME WITH ITALIAN VIA SKYPE OR ANY OTHER FORM OF COMMUNICATION SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE PLEASE!!!!

I'm a double major. My first is Romance Languages (French and Italian) and the other is Spanish. So I will be starting 101 classes in both French and Italian. (I'm already fluent in Spanish . . . which will make those classes very easy.)

I Have to say Isabel Allende is a great writer...her works are great...!

She is a great writer in Spanish too. She is one of the most famous Chilean ones next to Neruda. But I´m not really into her style . . . I guess. Especially not in La isla bajo el mar. It is a decent book, but I don´t like the formatting where the main character is barely in it and there is all this backstory that one must get through before actually meeting the protagonist. It reminds me of A Tale of Two Cities where the actual story does´t start until halfway through the book. x P

Oh I see... I have read a poem of Neruda long time ago! It was about freedom!.. anyway the whole Magic Realism genre is great...!
I didn't know what to reply really!

I don´t believe Neruda´s poems should have ever been translated.
Spanish is the romance language of poetry . . . so trying to make it work in any other language is just a tragedy.
Even a great translator can´t capture every meaning or the way in which words are used to emphasize certain points or ideas based on rhythm.
And I don´t believe La isla bajo el mar is considered magical realism. I assume you are talking about La casa de los espíritus. (The house of the spirits? no idea what the title is in English)Oh I know what you mean! Persian poetry is awful when translated..some people think Omar Khayyam's poems are great in English but you won't feel the true mean in till you read it in Persian.
Oh yeah the book is The House of The Spirits. I thought the book you mentioned is that!  

[kutsuchi]

It's a little late to be asking what your plans are when theres only a month and a half left lol. Anyway my plans are pretty simple. keyholeTV, anki, and my trusty 大辞林. Learning a language is always the most fun by watching tv and listening to music XD  

[Okier - chan]

Puuya

Okier - chan

Work on my japanese, Korean, and Mandarin I guess.
Maybe add some french reading and dutch lessons to the list ~

That'll be a hard hard summer!

It'll be rather easy, mandarin pronunciation messes me up but I'm getting better.
Dutch is rather easy, and french - I've learnt from grade 4 (2nd year uni now)  

[Sockers]

Work on French, maybe start on Norwegian again.  

[Horticultures]

Work on my German some more. Ughhh, my motivation right now is shot.
If anyone wants to become Skype bros, you should totally message me. /nudgenudgewinkwink