Monday, January 15, 2024

Personal pronouns

 Oh, my, third week and I am STILL interested in languages! 

I was thinking about the cases and prepositions. I often say "We don't have articles and prepositions in Finnish". It's not precisely true, but for all practical purposes, it is. The thing is that cases and prepositions are quite close to each other in function, so you could break down the cases to make them into prepositions, and glue the prepositions together to make them into cases, whichever is closer to your mother tongue functions.

So, let's go through the Turkish week with a couple of others, for comparison

I'm not going to post my studies here, because I find it bothersome to insert tables in Blogger. Sorry about that. But if you are interested, you can easily do what I did and do some googling ;-)

Anyway, there is so much more to such simple thing as personal pronouns :-D You'll see if you look into it.

The languages I used were Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese.



Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Turkish

 I am starting with the basics, again, but it doesn't matter. I have forgotten practically everything.

I'm planning on getting my Turkish to level A2 this year, so next week I'm going to focus on the following:

1) Learn the personal pronouns

2) Turkish has 6 cases

https://www.colanguage.com/turkish-personal-pronouns

3) How to say "yes, no, OK" in Turkish

4) forming plurals

5) numbers (cardinals and ordinals)

6) Some Turkish prepositions
https://fluentinturkish.com/grammar/turkish-prepositions
https://ling-app.com/tr/turkish-prepositions/
https://www.lingohut.com/en/v776983/turkish-lessons-common-prepositions
https://mylanguages.org/turkish_prepositions.php
https://polymath.org/turkish_prepositions.php

7) To be (which doesn't exist in Turkish)

https://www.colanguage.com/verb-be-turkish-conjugation

There's "olmak" which means "to become" - it's used in "olmak ya da olmamak" - to be or not to be
But other than that, there's this grammatical form

8) Turkish past tenses

9) Colors in Turkish

10) telling the time

11) One 1000 common words list :-D


Turkish has become a popular language among language learners, so it has quite a lot of resources on the internet.

https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/tr/en/Learn-Turkish
https://www.lingohut.com/en/l98/learn-turkish
https://www.mondly.com/how-to-speak-turkish
https://elon.io/learn-turkish/lessons
https://www.digitaldialects.com/Turkish.htm
https://turkishwithemre.com/
https://turkish.yasar.edu.tr/?l=en
https://www.turkishtextbook.com/
https://www.turkishclass.com/
https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Turkish
https://www.loecsen.com/en/learn-turkish#/en/Essentials
https://www.busuu.com/en/course/learn-turkish-online
https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-turkish-online/
https://turkishbasics.com/
https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-turkish.html
https://mylanguages.org/learn_turkish.php
https://www.50languages.com/turkish-for-free
https://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-en-tr
https://www.lingo-play.com/en/turkish-lessons-online/
https://app.memrise.com/community/courses/english/?q=turkish
https://readlang.com/tr/library
https://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-turkish/


Monday, January 1, 2024

52 in 52, 2024 edition :-)

This time around, the 52 languages are the ones I want to learn better. There are not many new languages here.

Right now the languages are:

Albanian*

Basque*

Breton*

Bulgarian

Chaldean Aramaic

Cherokee*

Chinese**

Czech*

Danish***

Dutch**

Esperanto

Estonian***

French*****

Georgian

German*****

Greek*

Hawaiian

Hebrew*

Hungarian***

Icelandic

Igbo*

Irish Gaelic*

Italian****

Japanese**

Klingon

Korean**

Latin*

Latvian

Lithuanian

Maltese

Navajo*

Norwegian***

Occitan

Persian (Farsi)

Polish*

Portuguese****

Romanian****

Russian****

Sami***

Scottish Gaelic*

Sign Language**

Silbo Gomero

Sindarin

Spanish****

Swahili*

Turkish**

Vulcan

Walloon

Welsh*

Xhosa

Yiddish


The "workout"

1) Learn the personal pronouns

2) in all cases

3) How to say"yes, no, OK"

4) forming plurals

5) numbers(cardinals and ordinals)

6) Basic, most common prepositions/cases

7) To be

8) past tenses

9) Colors

10) telling the time

11) One 1000 common words list:-D