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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6117 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 25 of 267 14 December 2011 at 8:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I think I'm settling on a Finnish study plan -- I'm using Selkouutiset which I also download as a podcast, and I can also translate using a dictionary from the website. This doesn't take too long, and it's something I'm managing to get in even when I have other paid work to take care of. I also have copied all of the Facebook Finnish Sentence of the Day sentences into Anki and I'm working on these, Finnish to English. Maybe I'll be a little bit input-oriented for a bit here, and see how this goes. I think I can commit myself to doing something with this site every day. Either reading, listening or translating -- that and keeping on top of my Anki backlog.
I seem oddly fascinated by the European debt crisis, so I seem extra motivated to read up on this -- even if the stories are mostly a bit wishy-washy 'everything is going to be alright' type stuff. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7148 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 26 of 267 16 December 2011 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still undecided about how exactly to continue in Finnish as I have a few options falling under the paths of either working on the relatively unfamiliar colloquial Finnish or sticking with standard Finnish. I'm not sure if I'll have quite as much time in the winter for studying since I'll be juggling a couple of courses with my regular job but I'll do what I can. Joining a 6-week challenge or something similar doesn't look likely.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6117 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 27 of 267 16 December 2011 at 8:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah I have 'actual work' which keeps getting in the way also. I'm not even sure how to study colloquial Finnish, since everthing available is for the written language, it seems. I do have some Finnish stentences with what I believe are colloquial, but so far it's mostly abbreviations of pronouns. I did have a Finnish guy in a chat room show me some Finnish abbreviations for numbers, of all things -- so even the numbers get shortened for speech, it seems.
My thinking right now is to just ignore this, and learn as much as I can just of the written language. I don't see much point to a 6 week challenge. I'm more looking for the 6-year challenge, really. I'd really like to find some movie DVD's with Finnish subtitles, because I think this would be fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5341 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 28 of 267 16 December 2011 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Chung, I have a task for you, if you wish to take it. No problem if you don’t want to but I thought you might like to do it as it might help to refresh your Northern Saami vocabulary a tiny bit.
This is my wanderlust list for Northern Saami and probably other languages eventually. I intend to learn all of these words or phrases plus a few more of your choosing. So if you want to, please could you translate all of these words into Northern Saami for me. I know very well that sometimes it will need more than a simple translation (because the languages are so different) and an explanation of some finer point will be necessary and that will be interesting for me too. It’s just for a bit of fun and might be good for team spirit! Language Ice Hello (everybody) Goodbye Thank you Good luck! Welcome! Numbers 1-10 Have fun/enjoy it! Good Bad Funny Interesting Important Easy Difficult Big Small Very Stupid I like it! Yes No Maybe Happy birthday! When? Where? What? Why? How? How are you? I’m fine. Where are you from? I’m from… I don’t know Animal Dog Cat Mountain Forest Nature Town Country Penguin Book Food Drink Man Woman Person I love you Of course A few more important words or phrases of your choosing. Present tense conjugation for verbs in all persons – Study/learn, want, go, be, have, like, listen, read, speak, write. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7148 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 29 of 267 17 December 2011 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey, hey, hey! Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's not even Christmas yet, let alone New Year's Day!
On one hand, I could do some digging to get about 95% of the stuff that you want in your list. On the other, I'm not sure if you'd learn that much and so I'm thinking of a way so that you can learn a bit by doing rather than passively taking in what I find, *mwahahaha*. I'll have something ready for you in a few weeks. Don't you worry. *** In case anyone else is following this post: I think that every person on the team should be free to satisfy his/her wanderlust for one of the languages of a team member as he/she sees fit. This is not at all a shot at hribecek but I don't want others to feel pressured into doing things as we'll be doing them. I'm planning on satisfying the Russian "requirement" (courtesy Volte) by working through some primer or list of phrases made for the Peace Corps or DLI. I admit though that this is quite convenient and if I were to try to "get a taste" of a rare or low-profile language that is poor in learning materials, I'd need to think harder. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5341 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 30 of 267 17 December 2011 at 10:44am | IP Logged | ||
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You're right, it would be more effective if you set me a task, it would be really fun for me too! I was really just trying to think of a way to involve you in my wanderlust, it wasn't laziness if that's what you think. :))) I'm really looking forward to this task.
I also meant it as a task for the new year but should have made that clear too. As you say, I in no way want to put pressure on others. It's just my own plan to study Northern Saami, Croatian, Finnish and Russian and who knows what else in this way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6117 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 31 of 267 18 December 2011 at 9:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah that's cool. Honestly, I don't have much temptation from wanderlust, I think I"m reasonably focused on Finnish and Japanese, really. When I was on Japanese only, I did dabble in German now and then, but now with Japanese and Finnish, well, that's all my brain can handle. But I'm always interested in seeing seeing what you guys come up with. Hmm, I had to look this one up for Finnish...
Penguin=pingviini I have this on one my Finnish flash cards. Pitäkää hauskaa! (Have Fun you non-singular people) Pidä hauskaa¡ (Have fun, you singular person.) Oh and let me see. tatoeba.org has Onnea! for good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5341 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 32 of 267 18 December 2011 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi Cathrnym I'm sure I'll be needing these words reasonably soon, maybe in May or earlier. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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