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Mick’s 2012 log Teams *jäŋe / *ledús & Žá | ||
Tags: Scriptorium | Afrikaans | Wanderlust | Thai | 6 Weeks Challenge (6WC) | Teach Yourself | Hindi | Intermediate | Finnish | Polish | Swedish | Verbs/Conjugation | Multilingual | Beginner | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Italian | Grammar | Spanish | ||
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| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5346 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 41 of 108 29 April 2012 at 11:49am | IP Logged |
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Cool! Czech and Hungarian are still bigger priorities for me during the 6 weeks, so it shouldn't be too hard for you to win, unless it's not your priority either?
I still aim to do at least something every day though in Polish. Serpent, you're welcome to join our mini Polish competition. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 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 42 of 108 29 April 2012 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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Yay :)
What exactly is the competition? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5346 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 43 of 108 29 April 2012 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
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Nothing complicated. Just who can do the most Polish during the 6 week challenge, out of us three.
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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5123 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 44 of 108 29 April 2012 at 5:35pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck with your mini Polish competiton!
I'll follow this log ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5392 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 45 of 108 29 April 2012 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
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I am so tempted to join you guys, even though I would just be doing Assimil for a half hour a day. It's a good thing I don't have the audio to my new Assimil book yet. :D
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5921 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 46 of 108 30 April 2012 at 10:46am | IP Logged |
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So there's at least three of us for a mini Polish competition then? That would be great!
@hribecek: I'm not so sure I'll win. Polish will be one priority and my other priority is Spanish. My Spanish is at an embarrassingly poor level and the Super Challenge starts on the same day. I also know that if I neglect Swedish or Finnish for more than a couple days I will have some kind of mental withdrawal symptoms that will make me spend at least one day listening to, and reading, Swedish and Finnish. @Kerrie: If I were more disciplined I could maybe spend an hour a day on Polish, but I have never been a very disciplined student. @Gosiak: Thank you, and welcome to my log. Edited by mick33 on 05 October 2012 at 6:49pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5921 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 47 of 108 01 May 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged |
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Since it's still 30 April where I am, (Well, it was when I started typing) I can type a post about the little bit of Hindi I've learned in the last few days. As I wrote in message #37 my main focus was learning the Devanagari alphabet or as much of it as I could. What I mean by learning the alphabet is how to write the individual letters as well as writitng one word that uses the letter, listen to the sounds that correspond to the letters and try to pronounce them. The spelling looks to be phonetic or pretty close but there were a few unexpected surprises when I began to pronounce the words. It seems that Hindi has many consonants that sound alike but actually are not quite the same sound such as क, क़, ख. At first all three sounded the same but listening to them a second time revealed that क is probably unaspirated while क़ and ख sound like they could be aspirated. As I read more I found out that क़, as in क़लम (pen), is supposed be a k sound that is pronounced in the back of throat but it is only used for words with sounds that are not found in Sanskrit, the ancient language from which Hindi is descended. I also learned a little bit of vocabulary, very little.
Aside from क़लम, I also learned कमर - room नमस्ते - a greeting शुरू - start खाना - food, or to eat ठंड - cold (I think it's a noun) I didn't even look at anything to do with grammar, but knowing how I am about languages I'll very likely revisit Hindi a few times and look at the grammar then. Now that I've done my part to encourage more language wanderlust among the readers of this log, I must get some sleep so that I can begin the May 6WC and the Half Super Challenge in the morning. buenas noches dobranoc Mick Edited by mick33 on 05 October 2012 at 7:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 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 48 of 108 01 May 2012 at 3:41pm | IP Logged |
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Oh no!!!!!!!
I had just shoved my interest in Devanagari idk where...and here come you and revive it:( at least by now I have two reasons to be interested in Hindi and Sanskrit: -the alphabet -the fact that in the Hindi translations of Harry Potter, Sanskrit is used the way Latin is in the original (and in most/all European translations). Ughhhhh. these reasons aren't good enough. aeljfldfjljgldgjdlgjljgdlfjgldgjljh 1 person has voted this message useful |
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