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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4516 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 281 of 312 28 June 2015 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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good ol' 90s
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4516 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 282 of 312 29 June 2015 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm through 500 cards now in Old Icelandic, which should give me a coverage of 80% + 9% proper
nouns on a selection of sagas (Njáls saga, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Laxdœla saga, Finnboga saga, Bandamanna saga, Kormáks saga, Víga-Glúms saga, Droplaugarsona saga, Ǫlkofra þáttr, Hallfreðar saga, Fostbrœðra saga). 89 % seems like a good start. I used to do intensive reading with much less. I've another 800 cards piled up, which should raise my comprehension by another 8 % to 97 %. I think that would go nicely in parallel with extensive reading. And it's rather easy to make parallel texts for sagas anyway if that should be needed :) By the way, the Saga Corpus is nicely sized for a Super Challenge - at 300 words per page, this would give 110 50-pages books. Maybe next year ... :) Edited by daegga on 29 June 2015 at 3:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4516 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 283 of 312 01 July 2015 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4516 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 284 of 312 03 July 2015 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I tried some very slowly spoken reading in Danish for pronunciation practice. I still
don't really know when to do the stød and when to avoid it. I wanted to go for højkøbenhavnsk like in these old movies, but because of the low speed it sounds more like I had down-syndrome. It gets a bit better towards the end. http://vocaroo.com/i/s0tDIG9J55MG Edited by daegga on 03 July 2015 at 11:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4516 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 285 of 312 04 July 2015 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4516 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 286 of 312 04 July 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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After a long hiatus, I'm back at reading Swedish books. Comprehension and reading
skills haven't suffered, on the contrary, it feels easy. The one thing that trips me up are those missing commas in Swedish. Sometimes I need to reread the sentence because of the structural ambiguity. It feels like the Swedes don't know about the existence of commas - you can read several pages without finding a single one of them. Danish and even the comma-lazy Norwegian are a lot more reasonable in that regard. Those few words I haven't seen before are either deducible from context or don't impact my understanding of the text. A have a few Swedish pop-up dictionaries on my Kindle, but none seems to work well for those kind of words (I'm reading historical fiction), so it's almost exclusively extensive reading. Edited by daegga on 04 July 2015 at 6:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4210 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 287 of 312 04 July 2015 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Funny, I have the opposite problem with commas. That's one of the reason why I love Swedish orthography. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 288 of 312 05 July 2015 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Daegga - I suppose that Swedish punctuation is less strict than German. I've seen posts in German which I had to re-read several times because each sentence had more commas than I expected.
Not every Swedish author writes fiction like a German scientist. Some do, but it's a question of style. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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