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Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 9 of 79 02 February 2011 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
Next month challenge languages will be: Spanish, German, Turkish.
Topic: this beautiful phrase of Kurt Vonnegut (sorry, I’ve read it in Russian): То, что заставляло меня идти сквозь все эти мертвые бессмысленные годы, было любопытство.
English back translation (of mine):
The thing that force me to go through all these death nonsense years, it was a curiosity.
It permits to study:
- Personal and demonstrative pronouns
- Expression of obligation/motivation
- Adjectives expressing live-death, sense-nonsense
- Human feelings (curiosity etc)
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 10 of 79 12 February 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
Spanish:
El motive lo que me hace pasar todos los aňos absurdos era la curiosidad
German – (French)
Oblige (obliger) – verpflichten, zwingen
(forcer) – be-/erzwingen
Motivate (motive) – begründen, motivieren
Death (mort) tot
Alive (vivant) lebend
Turkish:
Demonstrative: bu
Forms: Plur.Subj. – bunlar
Sing. “Direction” - buna
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 11 of 79 15 February 2011 at 4:30pm | IP Logged |
Turkish:
Şu – another demonstrative, something farther than “bu”
Personal pronouns:
N sing: ben, sen, o
N pl: biz, siz, onlar
Gen sing: benim, senim, onun
Gen pl: bizim, sizin, onlarin
Dat sing: bana, sana, ona
Dat pl: bize, size, onlara
Locative sing: bende, sende, onda
Locative pl: bizde, sizde, onlarda
?”of departure” sing: benden, senden, ondan
Pl: bizden, sizden, onlardan
Acc sing: beni, seni, onu
Acc plu: bizi, sizi, onlari
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 12 of 79 17 February 2011 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
Italian
Il motive (il mio raggione) perché questi anni morti erano superati era la curiosita.
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 13 of 79 20 February 2011 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
German
Die Neugierde war den Grunde für (zu?) leben.
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 14 of 79 24 February 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
German
Die Neugierde war ein Grunde der motivierte mich diese Jahren.
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| Message 15 of 79 28 February 2011 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
Next month challenge languages will be: Italian, Japanese, Mandarin.
Topic: funny phrases/stories which make the study easier.
I have 3 books from the same serie: “Italian with joke”; “Chinese with joke”, “German with joke” – there are anecdotes with comments in Russian. It will be a good scriptorium exercise and, for Chinese, L-R (I have the audio also), and permit to study the vocabulary and the grammar. For Japanese, I have a book (in Russian) which propose the funny associations to memorize the kanji.
Sometimes, reading the textbooks and listening to audio, I find words which cause funny association. I like it because it help to memorize.
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi
| Message 16 of 79 02 March 2011 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
Italian
Barzelletta:
Un uomo ubriaco entra in un bar e grida:
- Buon anno a tutti
- Scusi, sa… - gli fa notare il barista – guardi che siamo in ottobre!
- Ottobre! No! Questa volta mia moglie mi uccide: non era mai rientrato cosi tardi!!!
Traduction:
A drunk man enter in the bar and shout:
- Happy New Year!
The barmen noticed that they are in October.
- October! This time my wife will kill me, I never have never gone back home so late.
Vocabulary:
Gridare – shout
Gli fa notare – notice to him
Ubriaco – drunk
Grammar:
Uccidere – to kill, uccide – he/she kill
Future tense: if the verbe express certain event, the Present is used: my wife will kill me (he is sure) – mia mogli mi uccide
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