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| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4957 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 9 of 66 15 December 2011 at 12:32am | IP Logged | |||||
Nice, it will be good to see Cantonese...I admit, I won quite a bit of money last night and bought some Cantonese materials and some other Mandarin/Norwegian ones too! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Magdalene Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 119 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, German, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 10 of 66 15 December 2011 at 10:49am | IP Logged | |||||
I look forward to seeing some Cantonese too. I'll be studying a bit of Vietnamese next year, and from my time studying the language before, I learned that up to sixty percent of Vietnamese vocabulary is Sino-Vietnamese (Hán Việt), i.e. derived from Chinese borrowings--though Vietnamese itself is an Austro-Asiatic language--and I find the pronunciation of the Hán Việt words looks much more similar to Cantonese pronunciation than to Mandarin. Some examples, for your reading pleasure: Simp./Trad. Characters Pinyin Jyutping Vietnamese English 决定/決定 juédìng kyut3deng6, kyut3ding6 quyết định to decide, resolve 浪漫/浪漫 làngmàn long4maan6, long6maan6 lãng mạn romantic 历史/歷史 lìshǐ lik6si2 lịch sử history Let me know if I got the Jyutping wrong; I just took it off MDBG. Edited by Magdalene on 15 December 2011 at 10:50am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5349 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 11 of 66 15 December 2011 at 11:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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The jyutping is correct :) I once bought materials for learning Vietnamese, but haven't started it yet. Maybe one day I will :) I seem to be drawn to tonal languages :P Interesting to know I'll have help from Chinese! I've thought of Vietnamese as a really difficult language because of those tones, how difficult is it compared to other Asian languages?
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| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5076 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 12 of 66 16 December 2011 at 3:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi all :)
Like WingSuet, I've never done a TAC before either, though I think I've sort of got the gist of things. My goals this year are definitely focused on German/Mandarin because I'm going away to both countries from September 2012 - July 2013, so I've got to pick up my skills a bit! ... I think I'm going to be fighting off wanderlust all year, though. So many languages look so appealing! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4957 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 13 of 66 18 December 2011 at 1:13am | IP Logged | |||||
Hello! Your not the only one with wanderlust...I have it too, especially after seeing what everyone is learning in the main TAC thread! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5076 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 14 of 66 18 December 2011 at 2:20am | IP Logged | |||||
Argh, yes, exactly! I've put Russian and Korean down on my 'maybe' list for the year, but now I want to add Farsi and Icelandic, too! D: So many languages, so little time... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4957 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 15 of 66 18 December 2011 at 2:50am | IP Logged | |||||
Damn you read my mind! I've been looking at Russian myself today...And ended up putting more things in my Amazon basket which I clicked to buy by "accident" lol. Oh well...I think I now have enough books/audio for all the languages I'd ever want to learn! Although I'm not sure when I'll dabble in the Cantonese/Russian books I've bought as I want to focus the majority of my energy on Mandarin. Also, out of curiosity what are your reasons for Icelandic? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JimmyJameskun Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5946 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian | Message 16 of 66 18 December 2011 at 3:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmm, I've also never done the TAC before but recently I've grown an interest to get back into Mandarin. Can I
join, too? Target languages: Mandarin, Indonesian I've never done too well with Mandarin in high school but I also could see how different my work ethic was. My parents spoke to me in Cantonese but I could always answer back in English, hence I have a jaded view of myself with that language that I'd like to overcome. I'm only going to be concentrating on Mandarin for now because the materials for Mandarin are much more prevalent and I don't think I'll have time to stretch into the Cantonese arena yet. Indonesian comes with my interest in Indonesian culture within my college campus. I've been playing around with lots of Indonesian music and hope to achieve a good speaking efficiency for next year when I'm applying to a scholarship to study there. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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