renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4350 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 65 of 252 08 January 2014 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
This is exactly the kind of cursive I was going for (mostly the right pic), but... Your corrections were great, and very welcome. In fact I learned a lot from posting those few phrases, because of the help I got.
I will practice my typing for the forum's sake, but I'll post some cursive too. I will definitely keep on practicing :)
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4350 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 66 of 252 08 January 2014 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
geoffw wrote:
renaissancemedi wrote:
Thank you for all the corrections! Maybe I tried to write in
russian too soon :)
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I've heard various opinions on whether one should try speaking early or wait until after
hearing enough to get the sounds right--but I don't think I've ever heard of a reason why
you shouldn't try writing, no matter how early. |
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LOL you have a point!
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 67 of 252 08 January 2014 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
renaissancemedi wrote:
You are right, it's a nightmare to find the letters in the
keyboard, but I must do it.
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Perhaps eventually this will prove an untenable solution, but for now I'm using a key
mapping that is primarily phonetic (I do this for Hebrew, too, BTW). For example, to type
привет, I enter "privet." Some associations aren't quite as phonetic, and others are
visual (ш = w, ч = h), but it's already gotten fairly easy for me to type well enough to
enter words into anki or write short sentences. If I ever get to where I can compose
Russian sentences in my head fast enough to want to type really fast, then it might be
better to learn a different key mapping, but that's surely a relatively small problem for
the distant future.
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Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4113 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian
| Message 68 of 252 08 January 2014 at 5:19pm | IP Logged |
renaissancemedi wrote:
Thank you for all the corrections! Maybe I tried to write in
russian too soon :)
Yes, all greek handwriting is cursive but nobody is taught anymore. So it's very
distinctive for each person, as you are free to develop it. There are no rules to join
letters, although you end up doing it anyway. I'll give a sample if you are interested.
Last year in team Sparta there was a discussion on the subject. |
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According to Benny Lewis, there's no such thing of "too soon" and I agree with him :)
Keep up the good work!
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4350 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 69 of 252 08 January 2014 at 5:19pm | IP Logged |
So far I use a small printout of the keyboard layout. It takes me forever :) But I found out that the most letters are around the centre, so I'll try to learn it. I stress the word try...
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4350 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 70 of 252 08 January 2014 at 5:19pm | IP Logged |
Thanks Cristianoo!
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4631 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 71 of 252 08 January 2014 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
Great start renaissancemedi, the more you write the better. I also agree that it is never too soon.
When I started writing Russian on my computer it also took me forever. Now I am a bit more used to it, but I still have to look a lot at the printout of the Russian keyboard which I have put on the wall next to the screen. I actually prefer to write Russian (and Greek) on my iPad, because you can switch between keyboards more easily.
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solka Tetraglot Groupie Kazakhstan Joined 6540 days ago 44 posts - 61 votes Speaks: Kazakh, Russian*, Turkish, EnglishC2 Studies: FrenchB1, Japanese
| Message 72 of 252 08 January 2014 at 6:08pm | IP Logged |
Oh, by the way, there is a site, http://translit.ru/ , that Russians abroad use when they
have no access to Russian keyboard: you just type Latin equivalents, and the programme
converts them into Cyrillic. This could be easier than learning the whole new keyboard
layout.
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