Cordel Newbie IsraelRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6044 days ago 29 posts - 30 votes
| Message 1 of 19 08 May 2008 at 1:42am | IP Logged |
Hello all .
I'm new in here ,my name is Cordel and I'm interesting in learning Georgian.
Currently I'm also studying for Russian and it is a pretty big challenge,but I like
it and it is going well.
About Georgian ,I have no material and/or mp3's except for the book of Howard Aronson.
Can you please recommend me on how to study Georgian ? what do you think is best way to learn Georgian ?
10x in advance.
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Talairan Tetraglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6592 days ago 194 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English*, Gypsy/Romani, Dutch Studies: Spanish, Flemish, Galician, Aramaic
| Message 2 of 19 08 May 2008 at 2:21am | IP Logged |
Aronson is probably the best book out there as it comes with audio. The only other book I have come across is Hewitt, B. George (2005) Georgian: a Learner's Grammar (rev. 2nd edition) Routledge. This is the course book used by at least one university course (taught by the author). I have both, and while only having made cursory examinations of them, I prefer the way that Hewitt's is structured. If it came with audio material it would be the ideal learning course.
Georgian at SOAS
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Cordel Newbie IsraelRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6044 days ago 29 posts - 30 votes
| Message 3 of 19 08 May 2008 at 2:40am | IP Logged |
Talairan wrote:
Aronson is probably the best book out there as it comes with audio. The only other book I have come across is Hewitt, B. George (2005) Georgian: a Learner's Grammar (rev. 2nd edition) Routledge. This is the course book used by at least one university course (taught by the author). I have both, and while only having made cursory examinations of them, I prefer the way that Hewitt's is structured. If it came with audio material it would be the ideal learning course.
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Okay thanx for the reply. I've already downloaded the Aronson's books from
http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID =7
(after checking the previous recommendations in the forum) ,does Hewitt's course also
available for download ?
Are there some interactive programs that you can recommend ? (like RosettaStone ,but they do not have Georgian)
and /or free website with free material ? 10x
Edited by Cordel on 08 May 2008 at 2:46am
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Talairan Tetraglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6592 days ago 194 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English*, Gypsy/Romani, Dutch Studies: Spanish, Flemish, Galician, Aramaic
| Message 4 of 19 08 May 2008 at 3:51am | IP Logged |
Hewitt's is available to buy from Routledge. I had forgotten that Aronson was freely available for download, thank you for the link. Do you have the mp3's for Aronson, available at Indiana University?
You might want to have a look at this website, it has some resources available online.
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Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6958 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech
| Message 5 of 19 08 May 2008 at 4:34am | IP Logged |
There is also a list of resources in the learning log of my 6WC. I can especially recommend the dictionary, translate.ge
Edited by Zorndyke on 08 May 2008 at 4:35am
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7144 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 6 of 19 10 May 2008 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
Lincom Europa sells the following book:
Basic Georgian
Tamar Makharoblidze, Sangmyung University Seoul
"BASIC GEORGIAN" by Professor Tamar Makharoblidze is a book of practical Georgian for non-linguists. It’s an intensive course of the Georgian Language, which has 28 lessons with vocabulary, grammar, texts and exercises for each lesson. There is also an introduction with general information about Georgia and some additional information with common phrases.
This book makes available to study Georgian easily, step by step disclosing the poly-personal verbal grammar in a very easy way. This is a result orientated practical book.
ISBN 9783895861154. LINCOM Practical Language Courses 01. 350pp. 2008.
ref.no.: ISBN 978 3 89586 115 4
price: EUR 52,00
USD 72,80
incl. 7% VAT/MWST/TVA
http://www.lincom.at/
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zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6441 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin
| Message 7 of 19 10 May 2008 at 10:50pm | IP Logged |
If your Russian is good enough I'd recommend looking up some sources in that language, many of which can be found on
www.nukri.org
Nikolaishvili is not a bad course and is more geared towards everyday situations like shopping and job interviews, etc. rather weak on grammar, but this can be compensated for with another course, like Natadze, or a good grammar reference like Kekelia or Rudenko.
Vakhtangishvili is a fairly complete phrasebook.
If not, I'd recommend getting up to a good level first (that's what I'm doing), both Russian and Georgian are fairly demanding languages and English-language materials are frankly not the best (or the most affordable), though Aronson's reading and continuing courses are excellent. As for Hewitt, you can take a look at the reviews on Amazon and judge for yourself.
Edited by zhiguli on 10 May 2008 at 10:57pm
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zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6441 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin
| Message 8 of 19 11 May 2008 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
It turns out that the Georgian professor who wrote that especially scathing review of Hewitt has her own book for beginners coming out in November (though amazon.ca gives the release date July 15):
Beginner's Georgian
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