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- Мой город Я родился в Донегале. Это область на севере в Ирландии. Мой город очень маленький, вокруг двадцать тысяча людей живут здесь. Это не громкий и у нас есть очень красивый природа. Хотя мы маленький город, у нас есть хорошие удобства. Например, кино, библиотека и бассейн. Мне нравится жить здесь, но с другой стороны, я хочу жить в большой город за опыт. Расскажете мне о вашем город.May 10, 2015110
Aontáim, ta eagla orm freisin mar ní bhfuil daoine ag labhairt as gaeilge ar na sráideanna gach lá agus is é sin an rud is tábhachtaí faoi teanga. Fadhb mór nuair ní bhfuil daoine ag usáid an teanga taoibh amuigh an scoil. Sá scoil, bionn muid ag foghlaim faoi dánta agus drámaí ach níl a fhios againn conas a rá rudaí éasca, mar shampla i siopaí, i bialann, i gcaidrimh.
It's been a while since I've spoken Irish. Apologies for mistakes. Overall I feel that the course in schools need to be more practical. When am I ever going to be in a situation where I need to recite the themes of different poems? It's a pity...
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.
0 votedMay 2, 20150My toughest job in English
I've had some a hard and an interesting job lately. It took almost all my free time for a week and a half. I'm telling talking about the decoding of an audio interview.
When my friend offered this job, I thought "Well, sounds interesting. I have no problems with English listening of to English BBC podcasts so why not?". Then my friend said "It's about a 60 minutes interview with a punk band from Portland, are you sure?".And I thought for a second time "Hmm, It sounds as like a challenge and I can learn something new. Of course I should take this job!". My friend gave me about a week - a week and a half, and I started to do this.
Oh, God! I met really serious problems with pronouncing and understanding of words I've never heard. In addition the members of this band from Portland were telling talking about other cities and states of America, they were using some specific words and phrases and I didn't know neither US geography nor those words well.
Thanks to Google and Vocabulary.com they which were very helpful to me, and the speed of my decoding increased with them up to 1 minute of interview per half an hour of my time! I know, it is not very quick and some Italki users have their own tricks and know other web-resources and their speed can be more quick quicker, but I did it!
Of course, after all my friend did some corrections of my job, and I heard some jokes about ridicules (ridiculous?) moments in my text, but I gained some experience in English and it makes me feel happy now.0 votedApril 30, 20150- Russian language in Estonia and Latvia?
Hi,
I'm aware that there are many Russian speakers in Tallinn and Riga. I would like to visit these cities but I don't know any Estonian or Latvian. Would it be acceptable if I spoke Russian to people in shops and restaurants, or would they have a negative reaction?
December 10, 201481 - Reading stories to learn
Does anyone think this is an effective method to learn? At the moment I am using vocabulary apps like memrise to learn new words but it can be quite slow. You also don't get to see these words in context which can be important to see how exactly the word works, escpecially in a language with a case system and declensions and such.
Reading texts might be a better option for these reasons, but how exactly should you go about it? Sometimes I feel like I'm getting nowhere and having to get the dictionary out for every second word. Would you just go through the text, highlight what you don't know and then try to learn it off?
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