tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58017288424256402172024-03-27T06:41:21.345+01:00Language MuseKetutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-30015596091596416092024-01-15T18:03:00.028+01:002024-01-15T18:03:00.164+01:00Personal pronouns<p> Oh, my, third week and I am STILL interested in languages! </p><p>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.</p><p>So, let's go through the Turkish week with a couple of others, for comparison</p><p>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 ;-)</p><p>Anyway, there is so much more to such simple thing as personal pronouns :-D You'll see if you look into it.</p><p>The languages I used were Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-35130659703474602402024-01-08T13:27:00.001+01:002024-01-08T13:27:00.134+01:00Albanian<p>So... Albanian was the first language of my 52 in 52 project, and I fell in love with it. The problem with Albanian is that it's a very limited language. So, learning Albanian is a vanity project.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.lingohut.com/en/l111/learn-albanian">https://www.lingohut.com/en/l111/learn-albanian</a><br /><a href="https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Albanian">https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Albanian</a><br /><a href="https://www.50languages.com/albanian-for-free">https://www.50languages.com/albanian-for-free</a><br /><a href="https://www.onalbanian.com/">https://www.onalbanian.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.edualb.com/">http://www.edualb.com/</a><br /><a href="https://www.onalbanian.com/">https://www.onalbanian.com/</a><br /><a href="https://www.mezzoguild.com/how-to-learn-albanian/">https://www.mezzoguild.com/how-to-learn-albanian/</a><br /><a href="https://www.livelingua.com/course/peace_corps/albanian_language_lessons">https://www.livelingua.com/course/peace_corps/albanian_language_lessons</a><br /><a href="https://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm">https://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm</a><br /><a href="http://learn101.org/albanian.php">http://learn101.org/albanian.php</a><br /><a href="https://app.memrise.com/sv/community/courses/english/?q=Albanian">https://app.memrise.com/sv/community/courses/english/?q=Albanian</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@learnalbanianwithviola/videos">https://www.youtube.com/@learnalbanianwithviola/videos</a></span></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-67701566809016636692024-01-03T12:46:00.001+01:002024-01-03T12:46:49.785+01:00Turkish<p> I am starting with the basics, again, but it doesn't matter. I have forgotten practically everything.</p><p>I'm planning on getting my Turkish to level A2 this year, so next week I'm going to focus on the following:</p><p>1) <a href="https://turkishwithemre.com/grammar/personal-pronouns-turkish-grammar/">Learn the personal pronouns</a></p><p>2) <a href="https://fluentinturkish.com/grammar/grammatical-cases">Turkish has 6 cases</a></p><p><a href="https://www.colanguage.com/turkish-personal-pronouns">https://www.colanguage.com/turkish-personal-pronouns</a></p><p>3) How to say <a href="https://ling-app.com/tr/yes-no-ok-in-turkish/">"yes, no, OK" </a>in Turkish</p><p>4) <a href="https://turkishbasics.com/grammar/plurals.php">forming plurals</a></p><p>5) <a href="https://www.omniglot.com/language/numbers/turkish.htm">numbers</a> (cardinals and ordinals)</p><p>6) Some Turkish prepositions<br /><a href="https://fluentinturkish.com/grammar/turkish-prepositions">https://fluentinturkish.com/grammar/turkish-prepositions</a><br /><a href="https://ling-app.com/tr/turkish-prepositions/">https://ling-app.com/tr/turkish-prepositions/</a><br /><a href="https://www.lingohut.com/en/v776983/turkish-lessons-common-prepositions">https://www.lingohut.com/en/v776983/turkish-lessons-common-prepositions</a><br /><a href="https://mylanguages.org/turkish_prepositions.php">https://mylanguages.org/turkish_prepositions.php</a><br /><a href="https://polymath.org/turkish_prepositions.php">https://polymath.org/turkish_prepositions.php</a></p><p>7) <a href="https://www.turkishclass.com/turkish_lesson_67?lesson_id=67">To be</a> (which doesn't exist in Turkish)</p><p><a href="https://www.colanguage.com/verb-be-turkish-conjugation">https://www.colanguage.com/verb-be-turkish-conjugation</a></p><p>There's "olmak" which means "to become" - it's used in "olmak ya da olmamak" - to be or not to be<br />But other than that, there's<a href="https://www.turkishtextbook.com/to-be-or-not-to-be/"> this grammatical form</a></p><p>8) <a href="https://fluentinturkish.com/grammar/turkish-past-tenses">Turkish past tenses</a></p><p>9) <a href="https://www.colanguage.com/colours-turkish">Colors in Turkish</a></p><p>10) <a href="https://ling-app.com/tr/date-and-time-in-turkish/">telling the time</a></p><p>11) <a href="https://www.turkishtextbook.com/most-common-words/">One 1000 common words list</a> :-D</p><p><br /></p><p>Turkish has become a popular language among language learners, so it has quite a lot of resources on the internet.</p><p><a href="https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/tr/en/Learn-Turkish">https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/tr/en/Learn-Turkish</a><br /><a href="https://www.lingohut.com/en/l98/learn-turkish">https://www.lingohut.com/en/l98/learn-turkish</a><br /><a href="https://www.mondly.com/how-to-speak-turkish">https://www.mondly.com/how-to-speak-turkish</a><br /><a href="https://elon.io/learn-turkish/lessons">https://elon.io/learn-turkish/lessons</a><br /><a href="https://www.digitaldialects.com/Turkish.htm">https://www.digitaldialects.com/Turkish.htm</a><br /><a href="https://turkishwithemre.com/">https://turkishwithemre.com/</a><br /><a href="https://turkish.yasar.edu.tr/?l=en">https://turkish.yasar.edu.tr/?l=en</a><br /><a href="https://www.turkishtextbook.com/">https://www.turkishtextbook.com/</a><br /><a href="https://www.turkishclass.com/">https://www.turkishclass.com/</a><br /><a href="https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Turkish">https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Turkish</a><br /><a href="https://www.loecsen.com/en/learn-turkish#/en/Essentials">https://www.loecsen.com/en/learn-turkish#/en/Essentials</a><br /><a href="https://www.busuu.com/en/course/learn-turkish-online">https://www.busuu.com/en/course/learn-turkish-online</a><br /><a href="https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-turkish-online/">https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-turkish-online/</a><br /><a href="https://turkishbasics.com/">https://turkishbasics.com/</a><br /><a href="https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-turkish.html">https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-turkish.html</a><br /><a href="https://mylanguages.org/learn_turkish.php">https://mylanguages.org/learn_turkish.php</a><br /><a href="https://www.50languages.com/turkish-for-free">https://www.50languages.com/turkish-for-free</a><br /><a href="https://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-en-tr">https://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-en-tr</a><br /><a href="https://www.lingo-play.com/en/turkish-lessons-online/">https://www.lingo-play.com/en/turkish-lessons-online/</a><br /><a href="https://app.memrise.com/community/courses/english/?q=turkish">https://app.memrise.com/community/courses/english/?q=turkish</a><br /><a href="https://readlang.com/tr/library">https://readlang.com/tr/library</a><br /><a href="https://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-turkish/">https://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-turkish/</a></p><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-42144964912565868082024-01-01T13:27:00.005+01:002024-01-11T12:00:26.774+01:0052 in 52, 2024 edition :-)<p>This time around, the 52 languages are the ones I want to learn better. There are not many new languages here.</p><p>Right now the languages are:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Albanian*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Basque*<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Breton*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Bulgarian</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Chaldean Aramaic</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Cherokee*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Chinese**</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Czech*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Danish***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Dutch**</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Esperanto</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Estonian***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">French*****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Georgian</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">German*****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Greek*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Hawaiian</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Hebrew*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Hungarian***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Icelandic</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Igbo*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Irish Gaelic*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Italian****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Japanese**</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-ansi-language: SV; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Klingon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Korean**</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Latin*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Latvian</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Lithuanian</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Maltese</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Navajo*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Norwegian***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Occitan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Persian (Farsi)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Polish*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Portuguese****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Romanian****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Russian****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Sami***</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Scottish Gaelic*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Sign Language**</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Silbo Gomero</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-ansi-language: SV; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sindarin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Spanish****</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Swahili*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Turkish**</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Vulcan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Walloon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Welsh*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="color: #1f4e79; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1F4E79; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Xhosa</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">Yiddish</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The "workout"</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">1) Learn the personal pronouns</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">2) in all cases</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">3) How to say"yes, no, OK"</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">4) forming plurals</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">5) numbers(cardinals and ordinals)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">6) Basic, most common prepositions/cases</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">7) To be</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">8) past tenses</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">9) Colors</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">10) telling the time</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;">11) One 1000 common words list:-D</p><div><br /></div><p></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-5937116748912948252023-12-27T12:18:00.004+01:002023-12-27T12:18:32.469+01:00100 Goals you can have as a language learner<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs3J22nGTaLuLFFkASfAxi5U9g6VA2yzmy58G-aMPB9hlSoF-cUKtneS6C9B1fMzRj0UD1-Ia3d3CAe9TLA07OuSFJ4EytCIeDUhPemSwz7oC9x8LrBM73tyywsPyROVYgOmA4CvrPwmWsgI9xpm3_NYY60Iu4m652WeXLUR76ryBk4KpfJ9wtuKBkps8/s422/tumblr_static_43su4ozjeh4wc8cs0wwo08sow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="353" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs3J22nGTaLuLFFkASfAxi5U9g6VA2yzmy58G-aMPB9hlSoF-cUKtneS6C9B1fMzRj0UD1-Ia3d3CAe9TLA07OuSFJ4EytCIeDUhPemSwz7oC9x8LrBM73tyywsPyROVYgOmA4CvrPwmWsgI9xpm3_NYY60Iu4m652WeXLUR76ryBk4KpfJ9wtuKBkps8/w166-h198/tumblr_static_43su4ozjeh4wc8cs0wwo08sow.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) 0px 2px 1px;"><a href="http://lovelybluepanda.tumblr.com/post/167191078455/100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner"><span style="font-size: small;">Originally posted by Lovely Blue Panda</span></a></h2><h2 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) 0px 2px 1px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">A follower of mine asked me what are some realistic goals when you’re learning languages but before giving you 100 examples, I want to mention that you can have daily, weekly, monthly or/and yearly goals. If you get easily distracted and need motivation, set goals for each category; however, if you can focus and be motivated for a longer period of time, you might not need daily or/and weekly goals.</span></h2><div class="textpostbody" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><p style="padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;"><b><i>Also, the numbers/minutes/hours are an example, you can change them according to your time, resources, motivation, etc.</i></b></p><h2 style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) 0px 2px 1px;"><b>Daily goals</b></h2><ol><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 1 article in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 10 words.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 1 poem in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn a song in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch a movie.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 1 page from a book in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Sing 1 song in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Talk with a native for 10 minutes.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 2 idioms.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Translate 1 song.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Translate 1 poem.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Write 1 short text about anything.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch 1 episode from your favorite show dubbed/subbed.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Get 50 points on Duolingo.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Make a vocab list.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 1 new grammatical concept.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Think in your target language for 10 minutes</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read to a podcast for 15 minutes.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 1 tongue twister.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Spend 15 minutes on WordBrewery.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Play on Babadum for 15 minutes.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Use Clozemaster for 15 minutes.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Listen to an audiobook for 10 minutes.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Revise your notes for 20 minutes.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 1 vocab list.</li></ol><h2 style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) 0px 2px 1px;"><b>Weekly</b></h2><ol><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 10 articles in your target language.<br /></li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 2 books for children.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 5 poems.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 3 songs.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch 3 movies.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 10 grammatical concepts.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Talk for 2 hours in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 5 vocab lists.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 100 new words.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Finish 8 lessons on Duolingo. (I mean the entire bullet/dot/set of mini-lessons)</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch 10 episodes from your favorite show in your target language subbed/dubbed.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 30 idioms.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Write 3 A4 pages about anything.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Translate 5 songs.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 3 vocab lists.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Revise with the help of some tests online for 2 hours.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Change your phone settings to be in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Make a summary of the books you’ve read.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 10 pages from a complex book in your target language. </li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Make 5 vocab lists.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Write a motivational text of 10 lines for you in your target language about why you enjoy learning languages.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Think for 2 hours in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Translate 3 pages from a book in your native language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Translate 3 pages from a book in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Discover 10 new songs in your target language.</li></ol><h2 style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) 0px 2px 1px;"><b>Monthly</b></h2><ol><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 350 new words.<br /></li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 1 advanced book in your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Finish a grammar book.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Finish 10 stories for kids.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 80 idioms.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 20 vocab lists.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Finish 35 lessons on Duolingo. (the bullets/dots/set of mini-lessons)</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Make 20 vocab lists.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch 10 movies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language subbed/dubbed.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Translate 10 songs.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 10 poems.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 5 songs.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Talk to natives for 10 hours. </li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Write summaries for every chapter/article you’ve read.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch 15 YouTube videos <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Make a story of 5 minutes while looking at a random picture on Google.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Understand a song (that you don’t know) without checking the lyrics too often.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 20 articles.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Make a dish while reading the recipe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Revise for 20 hours.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Keep a journal with your daily progress and at the end of the month, read how many things you achieved.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read to a podcast for 24 hours.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Think in your target language for 24 hours.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Play <a href="https://babadum.com/">babadum</a>/<a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/">clozemaster</a> for 10 hours.</li></ol><h2 style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) 0px 2px 1px;"><b>Yearly</b></h2><ol><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Be mistaken for a native.<br /></li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Know 50 poems.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Be able to sing most Disney songs <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch movies without subs.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn 10.000 words.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read 10 advanced books.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Finish Duolingo/whatever course you use.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Be able to think in your target language effortlessly.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Master irregular verbs.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Have at least 5 native friends that talk to you <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Be proud you didn’t give up.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Study a bit daily.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Finish 3 grammar books/workbooks/books for advanced learners.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Have a decent accent.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Be able to read without translating anything.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Watch more movies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language than your native one/English.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Have favorite YouTubers that are native to your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Keep a diary and read how your year has been.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Be able to talk about advanced stuff.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Have very detailed descriptions.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Know the most popular songs <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Read mostly <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705121428/https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYCcHfAn2jas%26list%3DPLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-%26index%3D37&t=NDUwNTNhYmIzODM4N2JhMGRkYmIyYWRkM2JhMzdiMDgyMDhmMTAzYyxVQVRaUW80QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A3IaqrGaNJ_rwE1E8p5Q-Qw&p=http%3A%2F%2Flovelybluepanda.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167191078455%2F100-goals-you-can-have-as-a-language-learner" style="color: #41797e; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">i</a>n your target language.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Know several new recipes that are cooked only in the country where your target language is spoken.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Being able to say that you’re bilingual/multilingual/a polyglot.</li><li style="padding-right: 20px;">Learn your next language through the one that you mastered already.</li></ol></div>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-8904178771012788412023-12-18T18:09:00.001+01:002023-12-26T19:40:36.532+01:00Long time no seen, huh?<p> Well... here I am again. </p><p>I am living proof of that when it comes to learning languages, your talents, aptitude, intelligence, ability to learn, interest, access to materials, all that isn't worth much. The thing that matters is tenacity. If you give it 15 minutes every day, come shine, come rain, you will learn much better than when I give it 24/7 for 3 weeks and then - nothing. Sure, I can learn 100 words in an hour, and still remember most of them 10 years later, with nothing done to upkeep them during the time, but what does that do? </p><p>I wish I could keep up with just 15 minutes a day, or learn just 20 words a day, but every day. I would be using more languages than I have right now. Sure, I have sentences in a lot of languages, and I can read books in more than five languages, and I do consider myself a polyglot, but... hmmm...</p><p></p><blockquote><i>"Polyglot: Considered to be the genius in languages who can communicate in several different languages, however, only less than 1% of Homo sapiens can converse in five different languages flawlessly."</i><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- </span><a href="https://mylanguagebreak.com/when-can-you-call-yourself-a-polyglot-how-many-languages-can-a-polyglot-speak/" style="font-size: x-small;">When Can You Call Yourself a Polyglot: How many languages can a polyglot speak?</a></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://mylanguagebreak.com/when-can-you-call-yourself-a-polyglot-how-many-languages-can-a-polyglot-speak/" style="font-size: x-small;"></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Flawlessly? I don't think anyone can do that. </p></blockquote><p>Anyway... in a dream world, my goal for 2024 would be</p><p>- to become fluent in German and French</p><p>- improve my Scandinavians and Fennics (that would be Danish and Norwegian, and Sami, Estonian, and Hungarian)</p><p>- improve my Spanish and Italian (maybe also Portuguese. I think I need to finish my Ecclesiastes project.)</p><p>- learn Maltese and Polish well enough to be able to read the books (Sqaq L-Infern by Simon Bartolo and Loranne Vella, and Krew elfów by Andrzej Sapkowski)</p><p>- learn Russian well enough to be able to read those books</p><p>- Improve the languages I have started.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>that would be</p><p>- Japanese</p><p>- Korean</p><p>- Chinese</p><p>- Dutch</p><p>- Arabic</p><p>- Turkish</p><p>- Sign language</p><p>There's also Cherokee and Navajo, the Celtic languages, and Basque on this list, but I think that might be a little too much with all those others... but I can save them as candy for the times I don't want to think about those others :-D</p><p>Also Swahili, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.</p></blockquote><p>- For some reason, I need to learn Igbo. I don't know why, I don't know where the need comes from, I just woke up one day knowing I needed to learn Igbo. Weird. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdn72SNeuKVsJHVjB1cjYy5QUWphLtVgyln51lyvmHChkcEb3qvjmsHlC5OhJbonVoq87M8AhA08IJ2Ypq75IL1wrYVEUVVwAF-8HNTkrrtx-u6hi6X86Cu2cxV6q0uZJNrOthcLjevDjm9buY1Isv_kKKZNoQfgmWCyJHsqZSA0xPJdYn7k8vUfCmhk/s1280/1665896587959-3304145500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdn72SNeuKVsJHVjB1cjYy5QUWphLtVgyln51lyvmHChkcEb3qvjmsHlC5OhJbonVoq87M8AhA08IJ2Ypq75IL1wrYVEUVVwAF-8HNTkrrtx-u6hi6X86Cu2cxV6q0uZJNrOthcLjevDjm9buY1Isv_kKKZNoQfgmWCyJHsqZSA0xPJdYn7k8vUfCmhk/s320/1665896587959-3304145500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-71786091539629525612022-12-18T14:54:00.005+01:002023-12-18T18:02:49.593+01:00Hebrew, Farsi, and Juhuri<p></p><blockquote><p> “That had better be my Annushka and not some horrible bureaucrat!” Babulya yelled in the language she had brought with her from her homeland, those seaside southern mountains that Anya swore she would see someday. Juhuri—a mix of Hebrew and Persian—could be so soft and musical, but not when Babulya spat it out like she was doing at that moment. “I’m not in the mood for bureaucrats!”<br /></p><div style="text-align: right;">- Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack</div><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_rXnJ0ST38" width="320" youtube-src-id="8_rXnJ0ST38"></iframe></div><p></p><p><a href="https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/unexpected-connections-persian-farsi-hebrew-languages/">Discovering the unexpected connections between Persian and Hebrew</a></p><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-43202322415232768682021-11-07T13:49:00.001+01:002023-12-18T18:03:36.450+01:00Don't mind if I do, thank you :-)<p><a href="https://www.mosalingua.com/en/obscure-languages-to-learn/">11 Obscure but Cool Languages You Should Learn, and How to Do It</a></p><p>Cornish<br />Catalan<br />Breton<br />Xhosa<br />Belarusian<br />Tibetan<br />Basque<br />Leonese<br />Maltese<br />Hawaiian<br />Occitan</p><p>Breton, Xhosa, Basque, Leonese, Maltese, and Occitan are already on my to learn list :-D</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggVHHiLLyVXcelS1UHFkRkg8KecZZpcvCOZjX3a4dooIOLre_dT8b-QonNvFuG3nIcUESaYzdvVUcRWVMHjwmHdJDEAaJT7AQwqElqtVc_J-2FjanJGHAhtKgVG-FKghIAcAN_b6ke0UY/s2048/hawaii_17012547_002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1631" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggVHHiLLyVXcelS1UHFkRkg8KecZZpcvCOZjX3a4dooIOLre_dT8b-QonNvFuG3nIcUESaYzdvVUcRWVMHjwmHdJDEAaJT7AQwqElqtVc_J-2FjanJGHAhtKgVG-FKghIAcAN_b6ke0UY/s320/hawaii_17012547_002.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-11533481349424392332021-11-04T20:24:00.005+01:002023-12-18T18:05:50.815+01:00November 2021 6WC <p> So, now I'm somewhat in sync with the 6 Weeks' Challenge, as I'm interested in languages and the challenge just started yesterday :-D<br />I chose Polish, but... hmm... I'm not into Polish right now...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TEWd7PalAQlMerR_ezvTBJO3Ry3hZGaFKd2SNTe-VB2aqNxp3lieewZVxamqtjNUqi-C-lmZ5yhWHuNaR9KalWU7NhvG3KI6uN19r0A88jyjk5YTjyzhslyiFKz8S2LeR-SLzlGAmD8/s1000/the+witches+of+smyrna+by+maniacartist91.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TEWd7PalAQlMerR_ezvTBJO3Ry3hZGaFKd2SNTe-VB2aqNxp3lieewZVxamqtjNUqi-C-lmZ5yhWHuNaR9KalWU7NhvG3KI6uN19r0A88jyjk5YTjyzhslyiFKz8S2LeR-SLzlGAmD8/s320/the+witches+of+smyrna+by+maniacartist91.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I'd rather continue with my Mara Meimaridi parallel translation... or just read the book in German and get it over and done with :-D It's rather dysfunctional to be reading it a couple of sentences at a time. </p>But I found a Hungarian translation! Yay!<p></p><p>So... on to that, then :-D</p><p>This time a much shorter passage</p><p><span style="color: red;">Deftere bir büyü yazıyordu. Büyücülerden bazı yerlerde kocakarı, bazı yerlerde cadı ya da nurlular, bazı yerlerde ise yazıtların koruyucuları diye söz ediliyordu. Birbirlerinden farklı şeyler olmalıydılar. Belki de aralarında bir hiyerarşi vardı. Üstünde kilit olan bir kitap açtım. Sarı yaldızla yazılmış bazı isimlerin yanında her biri diğerinden farklı ve güçlü bir ışıkla parlayan güneşler vardı. Hımmmm!... Işığın yanında bir yıldız ve bir ters üçgen var.</span></p><p>Más abajo, en el libro de cuentas, había escritos unos sortilegios de magia. A las brujas, a veces las llamaba "brujas", otras veces las llamaba "iluminadas" y otras, "guardianas de las escrituras". Deben de ser cosas distintas. Tal vez haya una jerarquía. Abrí el libro de la cerradura. En efecto, cada nombre dorado tenía a su lado un sol distinto que arrojaba una luz cegadora. ¡Hummm...! Al lado de la luz, una espiga y un triángulo al revés.</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Πιο κάτω το τεφτεράκι έγραφε μαγικά. Τις μάγισσες άλλον τις ανέφερε "μάισσες", άλλον "φωτισμένες" κι άλλον "φυλακές των γράφων". Άλλο πρέπει να 'ναι το 'να κι </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">άλλο τ' άλλο. 'Ίσως νπάρχει ιεραρχία.'Άνοιξα το βιβλίο με την κλειδαριά.'Όντως το καφέ "χρυσό" όνομα είχε δίπλα έναν αλλιώτικο ήλιο πον έβγαζε άπλετο ψως. Χμ! Δίπλα στο ψως ένα στάρι και ένα ανάποδο τρίγωνο.</span></p><p><span style="color: #f1c232;">Weiter unten im Heft standen Zaubersprüche. Hexen nannte sie einmal "Magierinnen", dann wieder "Illuminatinnen" und anderswo "Hüterinnen der Schriften". Da musste es gewisse Unterschiede geben. Vielleicht eine Art Hierarchie. Dann schlug ich das Buch mit dem Metallschloss auf. Tatsächlich, neben jedem "goldenen" Namen befand sich eine merkwürdige Sonne, von der helle strahlen ausgingen. Daneben waren eine Weizenähre und ein auf dem Kopf stehendes Dreieck gezeichnet.</span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A kis noteszben tovább lapozva a mágia világa elevenedett meg elöttem. Az iromány a boszorkányokat néhol mágusnak, máshol megvilágosultnak vagy az írás örzöjének nevezte. Lehetséges, hogy mindegyik mást-mást jelent? Talán valamiféle hierarchia volt köztük. Kinyitottam a kulcsos könyvet. Minden aranyszínnel írt név mellé egy különös formájú nap volt rajzolva, amely végtelen fényt árasztott. A fénysugarak mellett búza és egy fordított háromszög állt.</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kiek žemiau sąsiuvinyje buvo prirašyta burtažodžių. Burtininkės vienur vadinamos "raganomis", kitur "apšviestosiomis", o dar kitur "raštų saugotojomis". Tai turėtų būti skirtingi dalykai. Galbūt yra kokia hierarchija. Atsiverčiau knyga su užraktu. Tikrai, prie auksu užrašytų vardų nupieštos kitokios saulės, skleidžiancios akinančia šviesa. Aha! Prie spindulių varpa ir apverstas trikampis.</span></p>Further down in the notebook she had written about magic. She called witches sometimes witches, sometimes enlightened, and yet other times the guardians of the scriptures. They must be different things. Maybe it was a question of a hierarchy. Then I opened the book with the lock. Next to each golden name was a brightly shining sun, each different from the other. Hmm... Next to them was an ear of wheat and an upside-down triangle.<div><br /></div><div>Senare i anteckningsboken hade hon skrivit om magi. Häxor kallades ibland för häxor, ibland för de upplysta, och ibland för skriftens väktare. Det måste finnas någon skillnad mellan dem. Kanske handlade det om hierarkin. Jag öppnade boken med metallocket. Näst till varje gyllene namn fanns en strålande sol, var och en olik från de andra. Hmm... Bredvid dem fanns en veteaxe och en upp-och-nervänd triangel.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hän oli kirjoittanut muistivihkon loppuun noituudesta. Noitia kutsuttiin välillä noidiksi, välillä valaistuiksi, ja välillä kirjoituksen vartijoiksi. Niiden täytyy merkitä eri asioita. Ehkäpä kyseessä oli hierarkia. Avasin kirjan jossa oli metallilukko. Jokaisen kullatun nimen vieressä oli säteilevä aurinko, jokainen omanlaisensa. Hmm... Niiden vieressä oli vehnäntähkä ja ylösalaisin oleva kolmio.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red;">Deftere bir büyü yazıyordu.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>deftere - in the notebook - defter - notebook compare to Greek τεφτερι</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;">There's some interesting etymology here... τεφτερι, notebook, ledger comes from Turkish, the Turkish word defter comes from Arabic دَفْتَر (daftar), from Aramaic דהפתּיר (defter), from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra), hide, pergament. (Compare also Old Persian 𐎮𐎡𐎱𐎡 (di-i-p-i /dipi/), Akkadian 𒁾 (ṭuppu, “tablet, document, letter”), and Sumerian 𒁾 (dub, “tablet”))</div></blockquote><div>bir - one, a, some</div><div>büyü - spell, magic </div><div>yaziyordu - to write in 3.s past progressive - she was writing - infinitive yazmak</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Πιο κάτω το τεφτεράκι έγραφε μαγικά. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Nothing special here, it's all very straightforward</div><div><br /></div><div>Πιο - more</div><div>κάτω - below</div><div>το - the</div><div>τεφτεράκι - notebook</div><div>έγραφε - past imperfect 3.s γράφω - to write, to record</div><div>μαγικά - magic, pl.neutral </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red;">Más abajo, en el libro de cuentas, había escritos unos sortilegios de magia. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>abajo - below - más abajo - more below, lower, under</div><div>el libro - el libro de cuentas - en el libro de cuentas</div><div>había escritos - 3.s pluperfect of escribir</div><div>unos - m.pl of un - one -> some</div><div>unos sortilegios - un sortilegio - magical spell, witchcraft </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #f1c232;">Weiter unten im Heft standen Zaubersprüche.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Weiter - further</div><div>unten - below</div><div>im Heft - in the notebook</div><div>standen - 3.pl preterite of stehen - to stand, to appear</div><div>Zaubersprüche - Zauber - magic, spell, Sprüche pl. of Spruche - short saying, like slogan or proverb. Zauberspruch is a spell or incantation.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A kis noteszben tovább lapozva a mágia világa elevenedett meg előttem.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>kis - small</div><div>noteszben - in the notebook notesz + -ben</div><div>tovább - further, farther</div><div>lapozva - adv.part of lapoz - to turn the page, to move on</div><div>a mágia világa - world of magic - világa is 3.s single-possession possessive of világ</div><div>elevenedett meg - past participle of megelevenít - to quicken, to animate, to come to life, to imagine, to visualize</div><div>meg- usually expresses completion </div><div>elevenít is to enliven</div><div>előttem - előtt in front of - előttem - in front of me</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Quite a poetic way of expressing this... "moving further on in the small notebook, the world of magic came to life in front of me". Compare this to the original text. "She had written about magic further on in the notebook". :-D</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kiek žemiau </span><span style="color: #fcff01;">sąsiuvinyje</span><span style="color: #fcff01;"> buvo prirašyta burtažodžių. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Kiek žemiau sąsiuvinyje buvo prirašyta burtažodžių. </div><div><br /></div><div>Kiek - how much?</div><div>žemiau - lower, comparative form of žẽmas</div><div>Kiek žemiau - a little lower, below</div><div>sąsiuvinyje - loc. of sąsiuvinis</div><div>buvo - 3.pl past of būti; to be, to exist, to become</div><div>prirašyta - stative passive participle of prirašytas - rašytas - to write - pri prefix implies including something, adding something, making something bigger or more important, etc.</div><div><div>buvo prirašyta - it was added - stative passive 3.s</div></div><div>burtažodžių - pl. genitive of burtažõdis - spell</div><div>žõdis - word</div><div>bùrtas - lot, sorcery (sort of rune)</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Hän oli kirjoittanut muistivihkon loppuun noituudesta. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hän - she, he - Finnish doesn't have different words for pronouns for different genders</div><div>oli - was - to be - olla 3.s imperfect</div><div>kirjoittanut - part. of kirjoittaa - to write </div><div>oli kirjoittanut - had written</div><div>muistivihkon - s.gen - muistivihko + n the notebook's - Finnish doesn't have articles either. You know if it's definite or indefinite by context. </div><div>loppuun - s.ill. loppu - to the end </div><div>noituudesta - s.el noituus - of the witchcraft, from the witchcraft, about the witchcraft</div><div>noita - witch - noituus - witchcraft. This is a very Finnic word, in Sami the word is noaidi, and it means more a shaman than a fairybook witch, but that's the word in Finnish for all magic users. There is also velho, which means a wizard (Harry Potter and Gandalf are both velho), and it comes from Slavic languages. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-73695891565973144712020-10-21T21:30:00.004+02:002023-12-18T18:08:29.811+01:00Something I read online<p><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><span>"So what languages do you speak?"<br /></span></span>"Chinese, Swahili, Czech, and Hindi. And enough Maasai and Romani to get by."</p><p><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><span>Sounds great to me! </span></span></p><p><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><span><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://bhekisisa.org/features/2018-05-29-00-speak-more-than-one-language-this-is-what-it-does-to-your-brain/"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="616" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZ5UukhI0uawMGRKbvHP6LK52o1sy0DVoh0UN8bnMUTnj3fqfRMFle0DC_PHGioVuCVSiWNt7f2Upjq5zU24VQFoUln4Mcc64ieGu3pQzFjWUDsULH8owTHdFQh10BNskWRKLtbs7V0E/s320/Image2.png" width="263" /></a></span></span></span></div><p><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><span><a href="https://bhekisisa.org/features/2018-05-29-00-speak-more-than-one-language-this-is-what-it-does-to-your-brain/">Speak more than one language? This is what it does to your brain</a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><br /></span></p><p></p><br /><span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><br /></span><p></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-31689732155002916062020-10-14T08:21:00.001+02:002021-11-04T20:38:41.394+01:00Which languages should one learn?<p> The languages you have most use of. The languages you want to learn.</p><p>Now, if you want to learn most useful languages, in general...</p><p>America is a pretty easy thing, being rather monolingual. You can communicate with almost all, if you speak Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.</p><p>To communicate with Africans, add Arabic to the list. These five languages get you through most of Africa.</p><p>To communicate with Europeans... most Europeans today manage in English, but it helps if you add Russian and German to your list.</p><p>To communicate with Asians... again, most Asians speak English as well (modern, urban Asians at least), but if you add Chinese to your 8 languages, that covers a lot more. Add Hindi/Urdu and Malay to the list, and you cover some more ground.</p><p>- English<br />- Spanish<br />- French<br />- Portuguese<br />- Arabic<br />- Chinese<br />- Russian<br />- German<br />- Hindi/Urdu<br />- Malay<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB15SRhRCl57AzQKDFMSKQbZloVDcMXfBzcwl6UjisZuxEXz9K-HiOexTYIsZDGXlQqrhhCaiHxG1QVzkPmXhqym5nxnpT6-kMcmqbRIcUOoPh6ljuoKJftTEqyiss-92IQDgh9KX9gQ/s720/final-1-720x380.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="720" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB15SRhRCl57AzQKDFMSKQbZloVDcMXfBzcwl6UjisZuxEXz9K-HiOexTYIsZDGXlQqrhhCaiHxG1QVzkPmXhqym5nxnpT6-kMcmqbRIcUOoPh6ljuoKJftTEqyiss-92IQDgh9KX9gQ/w511-h270/final-1-720x380.jpg" width="511" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-25104607843233215172020-10-13T17:51:00.001+02:002021-11-04T20:35:43.024+01:00Esperanto<p><a href="https://www.mezzoguild.com/esperanto/">Why Donovan Nagel won't learn Esperanto?</a></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Basically, because he believes studying Esperanto makes you a religious fanatic and a leftie.</span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">I could have just passed by that, but he said something that triggered me.</span></span></p><p><i><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Now, I know this will probably stir up a beehive (I wish I could say I’m sorry but facts don’t care about hurt feelings)"</span></span></i></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Your subjective opinions are not facts, Donovan. You could say you're sorry for expressing your opinion in a prejudiced and judgmental manner - because that's what you are doing - but in reality it's you who doesn't care about hurt feelings. You just call yourself "facts" because you are a pompous ass.<br />(Also, it doesn't stir up anything, because no-one cares about your opinion that much.)<br /></span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Now, I don't much care about learning Esperanto, because it's boring and uninteresting and pretty unoriginal, and my reason to study languages is not to be able to communicate with people. I think I have enough languages already to not to try to get in a quickie to make it speedier to learn more languages, but I might learn it just because it is a quickie. Also, because my father knew it. </span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, without further ado,</span></span></p><p><i><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Esperanto has always been a means to a political end"</span></span></i></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Bull. </span></span><br /><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">I know that languages are carriers of mindset and ways of seeing the world. But Esperanto? No. Simply because it is a conlang. </span></span></p><p><i>"<span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Esperantistan is an ideologically homogenous landscape"</span></span></i></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Bull. It's a way of communicating, and nothing else. <br /><br /><i>"Not only does it have no culture but its adherents are delusional"</i></span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">There are many different definitions to culture, but as he says, Esperanto doesn't have a culture attached to it, which means that one doesn't need to waste time with acculturation when learning it. No "half third times twenty" or "ten seven" here. <br /><br /><i>"Esperanto evangelists aren’t just passionate – they’re fanatical"</i><br /></span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">I'm sure there are some fanatical Arabic lovers as well. </span></span></p><p><i><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">"It might help you learn other languages but at the expense of time best spent on the language most important to you"</span></span></i></p><p><span data-offset-key="aikkh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Well... of course you should spend time learning languages you want to learn, but if you learn languages to learn languages and to communicate with people, and knowing a language - any language - helps you to learn another languages easier, then you should learn the language that is easiest to learn, and Esperanto is one of those languages. It also comes without the cultural baggage, which makes it even easier to learn. No idioms. No culturally sensitive words. No complex courtesy phrases. Etc. It's just pure language, easy peasy. It doesn't take long, and if you know it, you will be able to communicate with a lot of people. So, you won't be "wasting" much time, if you decide to learn Esperanto.<br /><br /><i>"Esperanto has failed – not that we needed it anyway"</i><br /></span></span></p><p>There has always been lingua francas, and these languages have been national languages, which have made them not suitable to be used as lingua franca, because if two nations are at war, they wouldn't want to use each other's language. During the WWII one could get into trouble just by knowing German or Russian. (Now, people got into trouble speaking Esperanto as well, but ah - what didn't they get into trouble for, really...) There was a need. Otherwise Esperanto wouldn't have existed. Duh.<br /></p><p>Of course a living language is always more successful than a dead or constructed language, but has Esperanto failed? There's 2 million Esperanto speakers in the world. There's probably a couple thousand Native speakers of Esperanto. Generations of native Esperanto speakers. <br />Esperanto is a very young language. It's only 133 years old. English is about 10 times older, with even longer history in pre-modern forms. What will Esperanto be in 1000 years? </p><p><i>"We’re rapidly losing endangered languages and more than half of them will be lost forever by the end of this century."</i></p><p>Now, this is the only reason I can accept as valid - learn an endangered language rather than a conlang. But he isn't saying this as a reason not to learn Esperanto. And he chose to learn Arabic... As far as I know, he hasn't studied one endangered language. He says he's interested in studying them, but - I am interested in everything between the core of the planet to the deepest space millions of light-years away, and it doesn't mean anything. Not one language was saved by interest alone. So, who is he to bash Esperanto learners for choosing to study that and not an Australian language? <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r_buu-dEZSZpeiHAIdkwB_q1koWlt4X2NeqqOM0Et3FpgdfpkPCJONM4H6oQ6CPbVsfEjF-yYT_SV_4FuqNu-3yYYu3sJYHQA_riHgJLfQzwbj5ZaOYhskMFgBdmaWgxSp5X4Mco4Qk/s1024/1024px-Esperanto_-_alfabeto_-pt.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1024" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r_buu-dEZSZpeiHAIdkwB_q1koWlt4X2NeqqOM0Et3FpgdfpkPCJONM4H6oQ6CPbVsfEjF-yYT_SV_4FuqNu-3yYYu3sJYHQA_riHgJLfQzwbj5ZaOYhskMFgBdmaWgxSp5X4Mco4Qk/s320/1024px-Esperanto_-_alfabeto_-pt.svg.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-2534703924080883512020-08-21T08:25:00.002+02:002020-08-21T08:25:49.945+02:00Adults are not children<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"The fundamental objection, then, to the natural method is that it puts the adult into the position of an infant, which he is no longer capable of utilizing, and, at the same time, does not allow him to make use of his own special advantages. These advantages are, as we have seen, the power of analysis and generalization - in short, the power of using a grammar and a dictionary."</i><br />Henry Sweet<br />- The Loom of Language</blockquote>
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-29613878567418311232020-08-17T08:59:00.002+02:002023-12-26T19:00:42.001+01:00realizable proficiency<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"We have not yet got away from education designed for the sons of gentlemen. Educational Platonism sacrifices realizable proficiency by encouraging the pursuit of unattainable perfection."</i><br />- The Loom of Language</blockquote>
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So, you see, all this anger and hatred towards people who say one can learn a language in a week, 10 days, 3 months or any other shortish time period, is mostly misplaced.<br />
Maybe people are jealous for a "charlatan" getting the attention, fame and even money and opportunities they think should go for "real" people, who have spend hours, days, weeks, months, years studying a language and have reached an almost native proficiency in it.<br />
Maybe people feel cheated thinking they have been spending a lot of time doing things while others just whiz by doing nothing much.<br />
Maybe we have the Lutheran attitude of "only a thing one has to work hard for is worth something".<br />
All this is, of course, total BS. <br />
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I'm still doing Duolingo for Polish. Other than that... nah. I fear my language time has passed for this year. :-( Did not learn enough Polish to read the Witcher in original language. But I am learning Polish. :-)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSauOlgrM6Y0Esf5pgkbKe08fYFcSjw1VZ7oBoa4kMP3X5tLWm8lSAnQk2A8mqBHXCpi82KAjH_9UGkEFT-2sOGFRKL2dhiRpvvR_6TPA42Lb0Pt2DL4P91TReVz4a59Tyg05Nb7wWWZg8hfhA7JK4q_PHOZm3TxPJIdfhor9zXgCbZ9aLZUQHEFDnG3E/s800/5-Tips-for-Learning-Languages-Extremely-Fast-1041110257.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="800" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSauOlgrM6Y0Esf5pgkbKe08fYFcSjw1VZ7oBoa4kMP3X5tLWm8lSAnQk2A8mqBHXCpi82KAjH_9UGkEFT-2sOGFRKL2dhiRpvvR_6TPA42Lb0Pt2DL4P91TReVz4a59Tyg05Nb7wWWZg8hfhA7JK4q_PHOZm3TxPJIdfhor9zXgCbZ9aLZUQHEFDnG3E/s320/5-Tips-for-Learning-Languages-Extremely-Fast-1041110257.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Some links :-D</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.creativelive.com/blog/learning-languages-extremely-fast/">5 tips for learning languages extremely fast</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.worthview.com/how-to-learn-a-new-language-fast-and-easily/">How to Learn a New Language Fast and Easily</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://learnenglishfunway.com/7-best-ways-to-learn-a-language-fast/">7 Best Ways To Learn A Language Fast</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://hosbeg.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-learning-a-new-language-fast/">The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Language Fast</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2is7Vi7WXw">How to learn languages fast [13 expert tips]</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.altergyan.com/10-tips-learn-new-languages-quickly/">10 Tips to Learn New Languages Quickly</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMnVSuJDcJA">How to Learn a Language Quickly</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.ilovelanguages.com/tips-for-learning-languages-quickly-and-effectively/">Tips For Learning Languages Quickly And Effectively</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9s9R6HFxOw">5 Ways To Learn A New Language FAST!</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://chi-nese.com/ways-to-learn-a-new-language-quickly-and-effectively/">7 Great Ways To Learn A New Language Quickly And Effortlessly</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-70176374857186914782020-08-12T07:19:00.001+02:002020-08-12T13:37:14.273+02:00Zuzanna, Zuzanka, Zuza, Zuzia, Zula, Zuzka...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yesterday, 11th of August, was my name day. My name is Sanna. <br />
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I was kind of overwhelmed by the multipotentialism thing yesterday, so I only talked about that in my blog, but I promised to tell you what I did - so here it comes.<br />
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I worked with<br />
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* lexemes - I worked with my flashcards together with Reverso Context - it makes it easier to understand the word when one sees it used in context, so the cue word on the back of the flashcard becomes just that. It's not the literal translation, but a cue. Also, more writing ;-)<br />
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* się and swój <br />
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"The reflexive pronoun "się" is of protoindoeuropean origin much like spanish "se", English "self", German "sich" or Swedish "sig"."<br />
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<a href="http://polishclasses.blogspot.com/2014/08/lets-not-be-afraid-of-swoj.html">http://polishclasses.blogspot.com/2014/08/lets-not-be-afraid-of-swoj.html</a><br />
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"swój" is the Scandinavia "sin" - so, easy peasy :-D<br />
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Also, it comes as a suprise to many learning Scandinavian languages to learn that they do have gender - but not masculine and feminine. They used to exist, but "melted" into one, "en", which is "common", while "et" is "neuter"<br />
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<a href="https://medium.com/@mailmyswedish/nouns-and-gender-e715faefde7f">https://medium.com/@mailmyswedish/nouns-and-gender-e715faefde7f</a><br />
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* some verb work, training present tense<br />
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- to be<br />
- to have<br />
- to eat<br />
- to drink<br />
- to want<br />
- to need<br />
- to "can"<br />
- to "must<br />
- to like<br />
- to hate<br />
- to go<br />
- to come<br />
- to read<br />
- to write<br />
- to say<br />
- to know<br />
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* <a href="https://polishclasses.blogspot.com/2015/11/co-moze-morze-homonyms-of-polish.html">CO MOŻE MORZE?</a><br />
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Got my attention, because of this:<br />
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* interrogative pronouns<br />
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<a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/polish-interrogative-pronouns/">https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/polish-interrogative-pronouns/</a><br />
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co what<br />
gdy when<br />
kto who<br />
gdzie where<br />
czemu why<br />
jak how<br />
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* some polite phrases<br />
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Most phrasebooks will teach you how to say certain things, like please, thank you, how are you, I'm fine, thank you, excuse me, I'm sorry, pardon, etc. etc. <br />
and all of that is based on the politeness in the author's culture. <br />
In Finnish it is possible to say these things, but... are they being said? <br />
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There really isn't a word "please" in Finnish. We have "ole hyvä" (be good, if you could be so kind), which isn't really the same thing, and isn't used the same way either. It's more "here you are", than "please". So, don't learn that. We use quite a lot of "kiitos" (thank you). <br />
Like "kuppi kahvia, ole hyvä" (babelfish translation of a cup of coffee please) gets "er... excuse me, what?" reaction, because that is what the waiter says when he gives you the cup. It's "kuppi kahvia, kiitos". <br />
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How about Polish?<br />
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<i>"Jak się masz? sounds very stilted, which is why hardly any Pole uses it in everyday speech. <br />While it’s true that the phrase is one of the most literal translations of “how are you?” into Polish, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it sounds good to the Polish ear. People who say jak się masz? are mostly foreigners… or Poles who just want to sound quirky."</i><br />
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<a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/how-are-you-in-polish/">https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/how-are-you-in-polish/</a><br />
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When I started studying Basque, the first thing I learned was "don't use the politeness phrases. The use of those is very prominent part of both French and Spanish, which are the languages of the oppressors, and is like a red rag to a bull to the basque people, kind of saying "I'm with them" and "look at me how polite and better than you I am!".<br />
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<a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/essential-polish-phrases/">https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/essential-polish-phrases/</a><br />
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Today, 12th of August, I'm taking it easy. I have done a little bit of Duolingo and a little bit of LingQ and a little bit of Clozemaster. </div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-19687850155582049932020-08-11T12:39:00.001+02:002020-08-11T12:39:28.426+02:00It's really hard to limit oneself...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now I have been working with Polish for a week. But... I have been looking at my blog, and finding things, and one thing leads to another, and I am losing focus... I'm going to fail. Again. I will not learn Polish. :-(<br />
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So... how will I limit myself and keep focus and keep working on Polish?<br />
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I went to look for some help, suggestions, tips, advice, anything, and found "multipotentialites"... <br />
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I didn't know this is "a thing" before today...<br />
Of course I have heard about multitalented people, polymaths, renaissance people - and I know I am one - but I didn't know about "multipotentialites".<br />
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<i>I still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up…<br /><br />I can’t seem to stick with anything for the long haul…<br /><br />I’m a Jack of all Trades, master of none…<br /><br />I often don’t finish the things I start…<br /><br />I lose interest in things I thought I would be passionate about forever…<br /><br />People say I have Shiny Object Syndrome, always chasing the next sparkly thing…<br /><br />I’m worried I’ll be on entry level wages my whole life because I change jobs and careers so often…</i><br />
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<a href="https://www.themagicofeverything.com/what-is-multipotentiality/">The Magic of Everything - Are You a Multipotentialite?</a></blockquote>
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<i>"Both Sher and Wapnick explain that it looks like multipotentialites don’t finish what they start but the truth is, our finishing point is just not the same as other people’s. We feel called to stop doing something once we got what we came for, when we’ve learnt everything we feel we need to know. We rarely quit because something is too hard. We “quit” because our intellectual curiosity is satisfied and we’re drawn to move onto exploring our next challenge.<br /><br />Because that’s what we do best."</i></blockquote>
Just a week ago I was crying about this:<br /><i>"I was reminded of the fact that talent, intelligence, aptitude, even
love of languages mean absolutely nothing when it comes to learning
languages."</i><br />
And the thing is, THAT WAS NEVER A FACT!<br />
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I am not into this to become a polyglot! I am not into this to learn all these languages I want to learn, there is no end goal. This is a never-ending journey, just enjoying the beauty of the languages and human mind, thinking... I mean... I NAMED THIS BLOG LANGUAGE MUSE!<br />
This is supposed to be a source of INSPIRATION. I am here to INSPIRE people. Not to teach anyone, not even me, anything.<br />
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I feel so... cheated. <br />And so... happy, liberated, vindicated even.<br />
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I'll tell you what I learned about Polish tomorrow :-D <br />Today I'll just enjoy the ride :-)</div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-31413799398930997532020-08-10T22:07:00.000+02:002020-08-10T22:07:19.330+02:00And I'm back in 2020 :-D<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In 2015 I posted the grandiose project "52 in 52". I intended to study a language for a week and post my discoveries and material here.<br />
Well... it didn't go so well.<br />
Polish was one of those languages, and I had posted some information about the Polish language, and that was it. So, now, when I am serious about learning Polish, I decided to blog there, and not here. But now I have caught Bulgarian (the language of the week after Polish), and I don't want to spoil it, so I am back in my own time, posting now.<br />
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So - I was rereading my blog posts, and noticed that I had posted the Finnish names for months, but not the Polish ones, so I corrected my lapse. And I realized a couple of things.<br />
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1) tłuczeń crushed stone<br />
- tłuc to break; to shatter<br />
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pieczeń roasted meat<br />
piec to bake, to roast<br />
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uczeń student, schoolboy, pupil, apprentice (someone who learns)<br />
uczyć się to learn, to study<br />
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So... Sierpień... Sierp is the sickle, so... is there a verb "to sickle"? There is sierpać, but I don't have the slightest idea what that means. To cut? To sickle? Perhaps. So... sierpień would mean "sickling", "sickler", "sickled"?<br />Someone said sierpać is an archaic form of szarpać - to jerk, tug, yank. <br />
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Let's look at wrzesień, then. They say it comes from wrzos or wrzosiec, meaning heather... now... is there a verb "to heather"? I found this: "<a href="http://wovencommunities.org/collection/caroline-dear-notes-on-heather-use-in-basket-making/">notes on heather use in basket making</a>" and <i>"I have been told that heather was traditionally gathered in September when the sap has risen and it is at its most flexible.</i>"<br />
But I also found "wrzesić". To resurrect, to raise... Hmm... What is the connection?<br />
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Grudzień <br />
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"freeze the surface of the earth, cause clods to form on the surface of the earth"<br /><br />grudzień ziemię grudzi i izby studzi</div>
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December freezes the soil and cools down the rooms</div>
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I think there's a serious flaw in my 10 day challenge ;-) (But not going to change a thing anyway :-D I'll just say it starts WHEN the flashcards are written. So, today is day 1.)</div>
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-69178277086173751082020-08-08T10:41:00.000+02:002020-08-10T09:09:05.340+02:00I'm studying Polish :-)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
BUT I am posting the things to 2015. So if you are interested, here are the posts:<br />
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<a href="https://languagemuse.blogspot.com/2015/06/polish.html">Polish</a><br />
<a href="https://languagemuse.blogspot.com/2015/06/day-2-of-polish-superchallenge-d.html">Day 2 of the Polish Super Challenge </a><br />
<a href="https://languagemuse.blogspot.com/2015/06/day-three-of-polish.html">Day Three of Polish</a><br />
<a href="https://languagemuse.blogspot.com/2015/06/more-polish.html">More Polish</a><br />
<a href="https://languagemuse.blogspot.com/2015/06/piaty-dzien-wyzwania-polski.html">Piąty dzień wyzwania Polski</a><br />
<a href="https://languagemuse.blogspot.com/2015/06/i-sta-sie-wieczor-i-sta-sie-zaranek.html">"i stał się wieczór, i stał się zaranek, dzień szósty." </a></div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-70574262258464000072020-08-03T19:41:00.001+02:002020-08-03T19:41:09.711+02:00I am not happy today :-(<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was reminded of the fact that talent, intelligence, aptitude, even love of languages mean absolutely nothing when it comes to learning languages. I have all those things. What I don't have is what matters most. Tenacity.<br />
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I'm basically a bunny rabbit. I'm really fast and smart and clever and all that, but I still don't know French. I never finish the race.<br />
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I'm 51 and I have been "studying" French since I was... 15, maybe? A teenager. Because I'm like 100% in for three weeks, and then nothing for the rest of the year.<br />
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I mean, I have WON the 6WC. Most hours put in, to actively studying a language for six weeks' time.<br />
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And I just became "legendary" at Duolingo :-D<br />
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And do you remember that "100 words a day" challenge I took upon myself a couple of years ago? I still know the words. :-D 100 words a day 5 years ago, I think I managed to keep it up for three weeks or so?<br />
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So, obviously there are skills, talent, aptitude, intelligence.<br />
But - what ever.<br />
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Here's Lindie Botes' <a href="https://rinkodesu.tumblr.com/post/177410568700/learning-vocabulary">Memorizing Words</a><br />
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-83800367503441201242019-12-08T18:22:00.000+01:002019-12-08T18:22:03.534+01:00Tlön language<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Their language and the derivations of their language - religion, letters, metaphysics - all presuppose idealism. The world for them is not a concourse of objects in space; it is a heterogeneous series of independent acts. It is successive and temporal, not spatial. There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon,", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to moonate." "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally: "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned." <br />The preceding applies to the languages of the southern hemisphere. In those of the northern hemisphere (on whose Ursprache there is very little data in the Eleventh Volume) the prime unit is not the verb, but the monosyllabic adjective. The noun is formed by an accumulation of adjectives. They do not say "moon," but rather "round airy-light on dark" or "pale-orange-of-the-sky" or any other such combination. In the example selected the mass of adjectives refers to a real object, but this is purely fortuitous. The literature of this hemisphere (like Meinong's subsistent world) abounds in ideal objects, which are convoked and dissolved in a moment, according to poetic needs. At times they are determined by mere simultaneity. There are objects composed of two terms, one of visual and another of auditory character: the color of the rising sun and the faraway cry of a bird. There are objects of many terms: the sun and the water on a swimmer's chest, the vague tremulous rose color we see with our eyes closed, the sensation of being carried along by a river and also by sleep. These second-degree objects can be combined with others; through the use of certain abbreviations, the process is practically infinite. There are famous poems made up of one enormous word. This word forms a poetic object created by the author. The fact that no one believes in the reality of nouns paradoxically causes their number to be unending. The languages of Tlön's northern hemisphere contain all the nouns of the Indo-European languages - and many others as well.<br />
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-84064192929523192982019-10-28T15:03:00.002+01:002019-10-28T15:03:27.766+01:00I don't understand how anyone could learn Greek with Duolingo...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">I know there's a lot of people who claim that the best way to learn languages is like a child. Might work for them, doesn't work for me. I don't understand the Greek articles at all. I don't know when you use mia and when ena. Until I go and check out the Greek grammar, and see that mia is the feminine article and ena the masculine/neuter. Now, I KNOW there's some grammar in Duolingo, and it would be a really smart idea to click the question mark, especially when learning, but - most people don't. And they don't always offer it in Greek either :-D</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">I think it's a really stupid idea to not allow transliterating. I mean, the Greek letters are pretty straightforward and easily transliterated into Roman letters. But no... they start whining about how to PRONOUNCE the words... That there are several different letters and diphthongs that are pronounced [i]. How are you going to learn to SPELL like that? And when they accept the use of </span></span><span data-offset-key="cg8f0-0-0"><span data-text="true">ι υ οι ει</span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">for [i] (only one of those is i), I don't understand why they cry over the FACT that one doesn't learn to spell Greek words in Duolingo. "there are surprisingly many advanced Greek learners who don't know how to spell!"</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">I mean, have they never heard of ghoti? Or that people learn to spell French, too, totally inspite of how it sounds? Or that in Korean, Japanese and Arabic they actually teach transliterating as part of learning the letters? And THAT PEOPLE STILL LEARN KOREAN, JAPANESE AND ARABIC AT DUOLINGO!!! Duolingo taught me how to read Arabic. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">Seriously, the people who are responsible for the Greek course at Duolingo! Greek is not difficult to transliterate! </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">α - a<br />β - b<br />γ - g<br />δ - d<br />ε - e<br />ζ - z<br />η - e/ei<br />θ - th<br />ι - i<br />κ - k<br />λ - l<br />μ - m<br />ν - n<br />ξ - x<br />ο - o<br />π - p<br />ρ - r<br />σ - s<br />τ - t<br />υ - u/y<br />φ - f/ph<br />χ - ch<br />ψ - ps<br />ω - o</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">And then just give people trick alternatives of words deliberately written wrong, and don't accept anything but the correct alternative. That's how you teach people when you write </span></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">η and when </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">ε. When to use omega and when omicron. Which letters are used to form the i-sound in this word. Not by accepting </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">ι as typo for </span></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">υ, "because it sounds the same". Idiots.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="668n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">Anyway, about transliterating - you do it by exchanging a letter to a letter (or a specific letter combination) Like in Russian, </span></span></span></span></span></span>С - s,Ш - sh, Ц - c,Ч - ch,З - z,Ж - zh, and Щ - shc. <br />This works like this: I sound the name of the letter when I write it. </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="668n-0-0"><span data-text="true">You know, cee, a, tee - cat. </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="668n-0-0"><span data-text="true">Gamma - alpha - tau - alpha - γατα - gata. </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="668n-0-0"><span data-text="true">ka - o - sha - ka - a - </span></span><span lang="ru" tabindex="0">кошка koshka.</span><br />
<span lang="ru" tabindex="0">I mean... if I know democracy in Greek is written demokratia, it might make it harder for me to remember it's pronounced "</span><span lang="ru" tabindex="0">ðimokratía", but easier to know it's spelled δημοκρατία and not δ</span><span lang="ru" tabindex="0"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">ι</span></span></span></span>μοκρατία. That Duolingo accepts "</span><span lang="ru" tabindex="0"><span lang="ru" tabindex="0">δ</span><span lang="ru" tabindex="0"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">ι</span></span></span></span>μοκρατία" as a correct answer - with a typo - but not </span></span><span lang="ru" tabindex="0"><span lang="ru" tabindex="0"><span lang="ru" tabindex="0">demokratia, is just stupid.</span></span> </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am not going to get myself a Greek keyboard. I got myself a Russian one, and then I forgot to change it back to Swedish, and closed the computer, and everything was in Russian when I opened it again... I can tell you it took some time to change it back to Swedish. And it wasn't easy. I almost cried before I got it back. I do not want to go through that with the Greek keyboard as well.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">So - I'm probably not going to do much Greek in Duolingo. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, someone said "how are you going to learn to read and write Greek without a keyboard?"<br />The same way I LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE EVERY OTHER WRITING SYSTEM, you idiot! We didn't get a keyboard at first class when we taught to read and write my mothertongue, and it wouldn't have helped any with the reading. NO-ONE USES THE KEYBOARD TO READ. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">Also, when I'm learning things like "this is a woman, this is a man, I am a girl, you are a boy, cat ate fish" and so on - I'm still a beginner and will probably be for a VERY LONG TIME - I think my priority should not be to learn to touch-type yet another keyboard layout. Because that's how it's going to be. You see, the Greek keyboard layout is different from the Latin one, because they have created theirs according to the how their language works. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">Our keyboard is abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">Theirs is αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζ</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">You see, they don't have a c, h, j, q, u, v or w. But they do have ps, two es, th, two os and ch. Now, I think they should have put </span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">χ as h and </span></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">ξ as x, but I suppose they have more use for </span></span><span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">μ and need it to be one of the most used keys in the middle... Anyway, it's different, and requires learning. (Of course it's easier than the Russian keyboard, but, alas, I have already started learning to touch type Russian, so...)</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">But on the other hand, I have a keyboard I can use, and then just copy and paste... though I don't like it. I'd much rather just write on Duolingo. And probably they'll remove the cut and paste option, too :-D</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">Anyway, I was using the word bank, but they have this vocabulary test, which doesn't give you options. You have to write it as it is. And they don't give you a Greek keyboard. So cut and paste it is. And when I was complaining about this, someone said they are pretty certain of that there's a button I can click. Yeah... I posted a screen shot and asked them to show me where the button is, because it's not there. Really easy for people to learn Greek.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">It doesn't make things better that I think the woman reading the words is hard to understand. Her Greek isn't very clear, and it's hard to hear what she says. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9bla-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, no, Duolingo Greek is not something I would recommend.</span></span></div>
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-21752851743759984602019-10-24T12:10:00.000+02:002019-10-24T12:10:03.719+02:00How to practice speaking skills alone?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now, I am talking about English. It's quite possible and not even difficult to get good at speaking English without ever talking with anyone. It's harder when it comes to other languages, but the most common languages are almost as easy as English. <br />When it comes to other languages - learn IPA, and you will get close enough. It's not perfect, of course, but it's good enough to get you understood and able to correct your mistakes.<br />
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1) Speak. Say everything you are learning. If you go to Duolingo, read all the sentences and words out loud. You don't need to put in any air in your speaking, so that you can do it in a public library or a bus or anywhere without getting attention. Just try it. Read out loud this sentence without any sound - you HEAR your voice reading this. You feel your mouth, tongue, lips making the movements.<br />
Learn the pronunciation rules, and IPA, and get an estimation of how you think the words should be pronounced, and then compare your estimation to reality, and correct your pronunciation accordingly.<br />
"Repeat after ---". Parrot the words. <br />
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1) Read texts aloud. Record your speech. Listen to it and compare to a native speaker. Try to get it as close as possible.<br />
If you are having difficulties getting some specific words to sound right, there's plenty of sites where people pronounce specific words. (Like Forvo, for example.)<br />
Again, in English you probably can find every word pronounced by a native speaker somewhere online, in Navajo, not so likely.<br />Audiobooks are excellent for this purpose, and it doesn't matter if the books are modern or in public domain. The anciency of the language is irrelevant.<br />
You can also read along with the native speaker. You will be able to spot the differences better this way. :-D Make notes on what you usually miss and practice that.<br />
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2) Speak about things in your chosen language. It doesn't much matter if you get it right or not. Speak clearly, do your best, but don't focus on if you get it right. You don't know. You can't know. But speaking a lot makes you better at speaking. Yes, it is highly possibly you develop some bad habits or learn something wrong, but it will be quickly corrected, if you ever get to use the language in real situation. If you don't, then nobody cares - or should care. Also, that's why you would be doing the first thing I suggested, to get it right. THERE it is important to get it as right as you possibly can.<br />
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3) Sing.<br />
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4) Practice tongue twisters.<br />
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Practice what is most difficult to you, what you have most problems with, and pronounce it loud and clear (at least when you are alone). Pronounce the words as if you were talking to a person who can't hear very well, or if you were trying to teach someone how to pronounce it correctly. It's really easy to mumble and try to be quick, so as people can smooth over the possible errors and problems, but what will you learn of that? You will learn to mumble, you will learn to pronounce the words wrong and YOU WILL LEARN THAT YOU CAN'T LEARN TO SPEAK WELL. </div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-38172321189750838912019-10-22T10:51:00.001+02:002019-10-22T10:51:36.740+02:00"C2 is impossible to be reached by self-learning."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Oh... challenge accepted!<br />
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I would say most of my languages are at this point "self-learned", except Finnish (my mothertongue), English (9 years in school and then life) and Swedish (6 years in school, then living in Sweden since 1995).<br />
I have studied German in school for 2 years, and French 1, and I have 2 lessons of Arabic, but German was 1985, French 1997 and Arabic also in the 80s :-D I haven't used any of this with another living person.<br />
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"C2 is quite hard to reach in general, even native speakers are not on this level (they're usually somewhere at B2/C1)."<br />
Seriously? I have been living in Sweden for 24 years now, and my Finnish has deteriorated a lot, but my Finnish was definitely C2 when I lived there.<br />
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The CEFR test says my English is ""≥C1" means that you are at the C1 level, or “maybe even C2”, but the test does not assess the C2 level."<br />Now, it doesn't assess my spoken language, but I'm fully confident in it. <br />Anyway, if I can get any of the other languages (not Finnish or Swedish) to the same level as my English - which is my goal - through internet and self-studies only, then I have proven the statement in the subject line false.<br />
And I am absolutely certain of that this is possible, at least in the most common languages with plenty of access to all kinds of materials online, like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese... </div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-39254847366370641162019-07-29T11:00:00.000+02:002019-07-30T11:00:45.906+02:00Back from Finland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well... I was back already on Friday morning. But that's when<a href="http://languagejam.net/"> Language Jam</a> started, so...<br />
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Anyway, I have been in Finland for almost two weeks, so there hasn't been much internet for me, nor much carrying books and other materials to and fro, but I have been using Duolingo and LingoDeer a lot.<br />
It's the first time with Duolino on the phone for me, and I was gladly surprised to find that there are other languages there, and the nice little voice feature - in some languages you can test your pronunciation! Now, I have discovered that some sentences don't accept ANY pronunciation, and some accept ANY pronunciation :-D I tested it with Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo, and it said my pronunciation of "tu" is nice, but the rest wasn't good. :-D<br />
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I should be putting in time to get 1000 points...<br />
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I am studying 24 languages at the moment, and of them 3-4 are strong ones, ones that I can collect a lot of points quickly.<br />
To collect 1000 points, I need to take 667 lessons. If I take one lesson in each language every day, that makes 360 points, and that leaves 640 points to be collected elsewhere... if I take one... circle... level? in all the languages, that's about 1800 points... hmm... 2 lessons in each language, a circle if that feels easy, that's 720+ points, and then 2 circles of each of the easy languages, that's about 150 points for each language, at least 300, and more if I feel like it. It shouldn't be too hard :-D<br />
That would probably take some 16 hours every day :-D Sounds a bit... er... stupid?<br />
Also, Duolingo has some... problems. I seriously wonder if I'm actually learning anything. :-D<br />
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801728842425640217.post-8646705249258424692019-07-26T20:04:00.001+02:002021-11-02T13:07:35.054+01:00Language Jam July 2019 - Indigenous languages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am participating in the <a href="http://languagejam.net/index.php">Indigenous Language Jam</a>. I was given <a href="https://omniglot.com/writing/cherokee.htm">Cherokee or Tsalagi</a> to learn. I am kind of sour to myself because I didn't choose out "foreign" letters... but - it's just to learn.<br />
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So... what should I learn...<br />
t<a href="https://www.fluentu.com/blog/first-phrases-to-learn-in-a-new-language/">he 65 first words and phrases to learn</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Today, Friday, I am supposed to learn all the letters, <a href="https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-cherokee/en/chr/">the numbers</a> and <a href="https://omniglot.com/language/phrases/cherokee.php">all the sentences on Omniglot</a>.<br />
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Tomorrow I'll learn 1000 words. I'll name things around me. Hmm...<br />
On Sunday I'll learn another 1000 words.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language">Wikipedia Cherokee</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.yourgrandmotherscherokee.com/blog/cracking-the-code-to-speak-cherokee">Cracking the code to speak Cherokee </a><br />
<a href="http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee_words.htm"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee_words.htm">Cherokee words</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cherokeedictionary.net/">Cherokee Dictionary</a><br />
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<a href="https://jalagigawoni.gnomio.com/course/view.php?id=2">Cherokee course</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc9lkKZ5bMUo5-pfijO5veQ/videos">Cherokee language lessons on YouTube</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.culturev.com/cherokee/cherokee.html"> Cherokee</a><br />
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<a href="https://language.cherokee.org/">Cherokee language </a><br />
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Saturday 27th of July<br />
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<a href="https://learn.mangolanguages.com/pathway/from/en-US/to/chr/552/1/1">I found a Cherokee language course on Mango Languages</a>!<br />
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So... I didn't learn the alphabet, the numbers nor the sentences... *blush* <br />
Well... I have excuses. A lot of excuses. But none of them is really interesting. I didn't need to go anywhere or do anything else, I just procrastinated and avoided studying.<br />
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Anyway, this is my first language jam, and I AM learning things :-)<br />
I am learning things outside language, as well, and what I learn makes me so angry. :-( I feel powerless and angry and I hate certain people.<br />
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But, I am also falling in love with the people and the language and want to know more. I don't think this stops here. <br />
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<a href="https://www.yourgrandmotherscherokee.com/">Your grandmother's Cherokee</a><br />
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<a href="https://decks.memrise.com/course/75381/cherokee-syllabary-audio-incl/">Cherokee syllabary </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cherokeelessons.com/Super-Cherokee-Syllabary-Dictation-Practice/mp3/Cherokee-Language-Syllabary-Dictation-Practice-Disk08/letters.pdf">Cherokee syllabary practice printout</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/CherokeeTV/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=10">Let's Talk Cherokee; YouTube playlist 1-3 Cherokee</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl3bXGWUX-W98fESIf-YnWfjCa7by3DB1">Let's Talk Cherokee</a><br />
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<a href="https://docplayer.net/58536542-Cherokee-reader-book-one-written-and-translated-by-durbin-feeling.html">Cherokee Reader Book One</a><br />
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ᏑᎵ ᎠᏓ ᎠᎵ ᎩᏟ<br />
suli ada ali gitli<br />
buzzard - wood - sweat - dog<br />
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ᏑᏓᎵ ᎢᎾᏓ ᎠᏑᎶ ᎶᎶ<br />
sudali inada asulo lolo<br />
six - snake - pants - locust<br />
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ᏌᎶᎵ ᏌᏌ ᎠᎵ ᏌᎵ<br />
saloli sasa ali sali<br />
squirrel - goose - sweat - persimmon<br />
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cherokee foods; they ate a lot of corn, squash and beans, wild onions, eggs, fish, deer, turkey. And, of course, persimmons. When the Europeans introduced pigs, that became very popular very quickly. There's a lot of things baked of cornmeal. A lot of stews and such.<br />
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Sunday, 28/7<br />
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I got into an argument with someone and no language studies were made. Basically. I did in my 200 points of Duolingo, and I continued with my Cherokee letters or syllables, but that's it.<br />
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I am not happy with my language jam. :-(<br />
But I am happy with Cherokee. Definitely continuing with my studies there. <br />
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