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| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 73 of 115 31 August 2009 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
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SWAHILI:
Read the Unit 11 dialogue (paying pretty close attention to detail/vocab/grammar/word order). Then reviewed all the grammar. Some tough stuff, I'm sure I'll work it out in the coming weeks though. Also glanced at the Unit 12 dialogue, but I think I'm stopping at Unit 11 until I'm comfortable with everything. Also had class today. Did some more greetings (salamu), "to have" in present tense, and at the very end, went over: Jina lako nani? (What is your name?) Jina langu _____. (My name is _____.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 74 of 115 31 August 2009 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
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(RUSSIAN:)
Currently listening to some Russian Disney music. I'm getting really really excited about learning it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 75 of 115 01 September 2009 at 3:05am | IP Logged |
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SWAHILI:
Went back through TY Unit 11, then went on to the Unit 12 dialogue and picked it over carefully. With the glossary at the end, I could understand it! Then I read the first Unit 12 grammar section: the stative form of verbs. Oy. Then visited my prof. He is really super nice. Here are a couple things he helped me clear up (TY's explanations are sometimes inadequate...): He married her --> use "oa" She was married to him --> use "olewa" They got married --> "Walifunga ndoa." -vyo- Sijui jinsi walivyounda jahazi lile. --> Sijui walivyounda jahazi lile. Soma kadiri uwezavyo. --> Soma uwezavyo. Ni kama alivyosema. ("Kama" cannot be dropped because "ni" is not a "real" verb.) Sipendi namna alivyoshona shati hili. --> Sipendi alivyoshona shati hili. Fanya kama upendavyo. --> Fanya upendavyo. In normal speech, the "jinsi," "namna," etc. are often left out if possible. -nge- conditional -ngali- past conditional He also gave me a kids's book to read: Mfalme Twiga, though he warned it might be difficult. And he also lent me Kiswahili Mufti 1: Darasa la Kwanza, which is a workbook intended for native-Swahili-speaking children. Edited by Rhoda on 01 September 2009 at 3:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 76 of 115 02 September 2009 at 4:40am | IP Logged |
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(RUSSIAN:)
Listened to a LOT of Russian Disney songs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 77 of 115 02 September 2009 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
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SWAHILI:
Had class today, learned a new phrase or two. Hamna shida = no problem. Read a couple pages of Mfalme Twiga--it's hard! Compared to Hadithi za Esopo anyway. I'm getting a very, very basic idea of what is going on (50% comprehension maybe?). I also read through 50 pages of Kiswahili Mufti 1: Darasa la Kwanza. FRENCH: Finished Bienvenue au Club! Read the first ~18 pages of Harry Potter et L'Ordre du Phénix. RUSSIAN: Listening to more songs. Make that a lot more songs. Maybe I could watch an actual Disney movie in Russian...I'll see if I can find one! Edit: Russian disney movies are hard to find. I've been messing around a little with the first two lessons of the Princeton Russian Course. OTHER: So, I've been interested in medieval history all my life, but only recently have I entertained the notion that I could actually double-major and add History...which in turn makes me want to know some Medieval Latin. Wanderlust setting in...French and Swahili are my first priorities now though, and Russian is definitely next on the list. And I have my hands quite full with these three since I also have to study Bio and Chem and work out and somehow have a social life. So NO LATIN!!! For now. Edited by Rhoda on 03 September 2009 at 4:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 78 of 115 04 September 2009 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
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Today was a nice day so I went around on a walk and wandered all over campus and ended up at the library and wandered around in there for a bit and somehow, no idea how, ended up in the Latin section, and I happened to check out a couple of books entitled Apprendre le Latin Médiéval and Traduire le Latin Médiéval.
Plan for tonight/tomorrow: FRENCH: Finish the first chapter of Harry Potter et L'Ordre du Phénix. SWAHILI: Read some more in Kiswahili Mufti 1: Darasa la Kwanza and Mfalme Twiga. RUSSIAN: Listen to music, play around with Princeton Lessons 1 & 2 of the first unit. LATIN: Take a look at the new books (this also counts as French practice!!). OTHER: CHEMISTRY or I will surely be doomed. And work hard on my other classes. I don't think I'll be going out this weekend...:( 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 79 of 115 04 September 2009 at 4:53am | IP Logged |
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MEDIEVAL LATIN:
What have I gotten myself into? Just read the first section, it started talking about declensions. I think I'm allergic to declensions. Well, alright, it wasn't so bad. I was expecting it to be a lot harder, especially since the book is written in French, but after a while I sort of forgot it's in French and started focusing on the odd Latin grammar. Here is some food for thought: In terra summus rex est hoc tempore Nummus. Nummum mirantur reges. Sed quia consumi poterit cito gloria Nummi... Nummo venalis favet ordo pontificalis. Nullus honoratur sine Nummo, nullus amatus. I think I'm going to need a good Latin Dictionary. FRENCH: Finished the first chapter of Harry Potter et L'Ordre du Phénix. Edited by Rhoda on 04 September 2009 at 5:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 80 of 115 04 September 2009 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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SWAHILI:
Worked on introducing ourselves in class. Stuff like: Jina langu ni ______. Mimi ni mwanafunza Mmarekani. Natoka mji wa ______, jimbo la ______. Mama jina lake ______, na Baba ni _______. Dada yangu ni ______. Sina kaka. FRENCH: Read some Harry Potter. LATIN: Found this website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/tutorial/ default.htm which gives you a good grounding in the Latin of 1086 – 1733, assuming no prior knowledge of the language. I think I've come a long way just working through the first two lessons. Terram dominis do. Regina cartam confirmat. Also, here is a dictionary: http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe Edited by Rhoda on 05 September 2009 at 12:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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