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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6601 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 41 of 62 14 June 2012 at 9:41pm | IP Logged |
Which one? I went through the Langenscheidts (sp?) one and it's one of the best Finnish textbooks! It teaches pretty much everything that's there to teach about the grammar.
Good luck!
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5260 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 42 of 62 15 June 2012 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
Yes, its Langenscheidts praktisches lehrbuch finnisch and as you say it seems quite decent for now.
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5260 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 43 of 62 08 July 2012 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
In contradiction with the general tendency to write increasingly rare in this log, I've decided to write a few lines today.
First, as it has long been proved, first by the 6WC and more recently by the Super challenge, I dont obey any deadlines. A few days after the start I can't care less about finishing anything in time, everything depends on my moment mood. However, after being replied in this topic, I realised its about time to learn some more vocabulary. So two days ago (or was it yesterday?) I set up myself a goal - to learn at least 100 Finnish words a day. I'll be using memrise for this purpose. The bigger challenge however will be to strengthen my will and not give up whenever it dawns on me (whenever the idea of it flashes through).
Another thing - I started learning a new language. Its name begins with Ma and ends in............... - what a suprise - gyar. Completely in step with the team. As for now I know nothing besides how to read it and very few set words and phrases. I'm still searching for a resources/course to start off with.
As for Norwegian, there is pretty much nothing happening. I listen to radio on and off, but more off. I've found some people to chat with in German and Im suprised that I can say something more besides set phrases.
Let's hope I'll find some motivation to post again in less than two weeks.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7160 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 44 of 62 08 July 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
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Another thing - I started learning a new language. Its name begins with Ma and ends in............... - what a suprise - gyar. Completely in step with the team. As for now I know nothing besides how to read it and very few set words and phrases. I'm still searching for a resources/course to start off with. |
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For a sec, I thought that you had just started to learn Mari as I had.
There are some links (scroll to "LINKS" in the profile) to freely available learning material for Hungarian on the internet.
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5260 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 45 of 62 08 July 2012 at 9:37pm | IP Logged |
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now that you mentioned it, I spent a good amount of time looking at the wiki page on it instead of learning vocab, though atm i dont have any time for more langs
also, thanks for the links
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| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5353 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian
| Message 46 of 62 09 July 2012 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
That's great that you're still active and even better that you're starting Hungarian. You can practise writing on the Hungarian forum and get corrections if and when you want. Welcome to the Hungarian club! :)
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5260 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 47 of 62 14 July 2012 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
Nine days and about 1000 words later, I still dont understand much from that book. I dont know if its not meant for begginers and anyway I cant care less - there are tons of other things to read.
Im saying this since just a while ago I visited selkouutiset and I was astonished to find out that I understood nearly every single word and I virtually dont need wiktionary anymore - though I still use it so I can understand everything.
I dont know if this is because I have advanced so much or because selkouutiset uses simple language, the latter being more likely. I dont remember when was the last time I read from that website, but I certainly didnt understand that much, 50% at most.
I havent advanced (much) with Hungarian, but this will now change, since I wont be learning 100 and more words per day. Now that I have fought all those Finnish declensions and conjugations hardly anything in Hungarian can impress me.
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5260 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 48 of 62 09 August 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
I've just had my first skype chat in Finnish. I was using dictionary all the time - in one direction only, so to understand what are they talking to me - and making a good amount of mistakes, yet somehow I felt how my skills somehow skyrocketed. It lasted for nearly an hour. The more important thing however is that we were (or rather my colluctor was) talking about things and using words you wouldn't find in a beginners' course. And I understood him.
This is a kind of a symbolic milestone. *hyvin iloinen*
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