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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 57 of 67 27 February 2009 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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It looks like I'm not drifting as far as I thought.
Hungarian has heavy influences from German, including lots of 'mirror translations'/calques, and heavy Slavic and Germanic influences on the vocabulary; Wikipedia claims "The proportion of the word roots in Hungarian lexicon is as follows: Finno-Ugric 21%, Slavic 20%, German 11%, Turkic 9.5%, Latin and Greek 6%, Romance 2.5%, other of known origin 1%, others of uncertain origin 30%." Still, it should be fun: when I can puzzle out words like töredezettségmentesítőtleníttethetetlenségtelenítőtl enkedhetnétek on my own, I'll really be getting somewhere with it - or when megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért seems familiar. Edited by Volte on 28 February 2009 at 4:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 58 of 67 08 March 2009 at 7:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I seem to have 'accidentally' drifted into doing something relevant for my stated TAC goals: I read "Ombre sultane" this morning, in the original French (I've never seen it in any other language). It took 4 hours, almost to the minute; I read it in one session, without recourse to any external resources like dictionaries. It's just over 200 pages, and written by "Assia Djebar", a member of l’Académie française.
I'm picky enough that I'm not going to consider this passing the airplane test (occasional paragraphs were cloudy in meaning, for instance - and it would just seem weird to claim a pass in a language I'm as weak in as I am in French), but it's still a milestone I'm moderately happy about: it's the first complete novel I've read it French, if you exclude using "The Little Prince" in French as an L-R base for Spanish after internalizing the English contents, and exclude reading a couple of chapters of Camus, also as an L-R base language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 60 of 67 08 March 2009 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Congratulations! Care to comment in the book club thread in the Multilingual Lounge? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 61 of 67 08 March 2009 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'd forgotten the page requirement (and, frankly, I don't view 400 pages as a magic number - if you can read 200 pages, 400 or 800 at the same level are about equally easy, just more time-consuming). More importantly, "Ombre Sultane" isn't really that difficult of a book, in my opinion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 62 of 67 08 March 2009 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm pondering what to say; it's not a novel I have anything particularly interesting to say about, honestly. "It was really descriptive/expository, with amazingly little dialog, and a lot of the scenes were quite disturbing" is a rather mediocre comment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 63 of 67 08 March 2009 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That's ok, I'm finding it a rather mediocre read. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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