Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 17 of 65 19 April 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
Obscure and not obscure at the same time. Georgian people are nice, friendly, they like to have guests. Georgian literature has a long tradition. Architecture is unique. I don't know, I feel it's a long-standing civilization. I don't see the country as exotique, only the language is not related to indo-european but the rest seems so familiar to me in a way I better not try to explain;)
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Murdoc Triglot Senior Member Georgia Joined 5255 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Georgian*, English, Russian
| Message 18 of 65 19 April 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
ამერიკელი
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Welcome to Georgian!
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liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6230 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 19 of 65 20 April 2012 at 3:35pm | IP Logged |
Murdoc wrote:
ამერიკელი
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მადლობა!
I made the mistake of looking ahead in my book and read about Georgian verb conjugation... wish I hadn't done
that! :-o I'm not sure how native Georgians can even get a handle on that!
Murdoc, I think you just taught me my phrase of the day from expugnator's log: ძაˈლიან მაგარი
as in აუ ძაˈლიან მაგარი კინოა
it means "really cool" right?!
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Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5730 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| Message 20 of 65 20 April 2012 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
liddytime wrote:
I made the mistake of looking ahead in my book and read about Georgian verb conjugation... wish I hadn't done
that! :-o I'm not sure how native Georgians can even get a handle on that!
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It's that bad, huh?
Don't worry. You'll get it eventually.
I think the Georgian natives will be patient. I doubt there are that many people learning the language.
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 21 of 65 20 April 2012 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
@liddytime, while searching for something else, I came across Peace Corps Georgian with audio in a 424mb zip file. Hope this helps. As a side note, isn't it amazing how popular Georgian has become on HTLAL. I can't help but think that so much of it is down to TD's "small expectations" log which, I always enjoy reading.
Best of luck,@liddytime, I also look forward to your log entries in whatever project you undertake.
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Murdoc Triglot Senior Member Georgia Joined 5255 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Georgian*, English, Russian
| Message 22 of 65 20 April 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
არაფრის.
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it means "really cool" right?! |
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Yes and "ძალიან" is written without stress, I just put it there to demonstrate how it is pronounced.
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 23 of 65 20 April 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
Yes. I also think TixhiiDon is the guilty party here :-)
But I really wish you guys would not make it so tempting to study the only language on the planet that I have given my word that I will not learn.
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geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 24 of 65 20 April 2012 at 8:22pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Yes. I also think TixhiiDon is the guilty party here :-)
But I really wish you guys would not make it so tempting to study the only language on the planet that I have given my word that I will not learn. |
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The only language I ever promised not to learn is French. C'est la vie.
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