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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 369 of 758 23 August 2012 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
So I've heard unless you know Russian too. Apparently the choice of learning material then widens a bit. All of this talk about Georgian has made me read a bit more about it but I wouldn't say that I'm considering dropping one of my current target languages for it. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 370 of 758 23 August 2012 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hehe I see you're more into finno-ugric languages which also need Russian!
Regarding Russian for Georgian materials, actually the ones that are widely (i.e. online) available are aimed mostly at beginners, and they tend to be much less extensive than Aronson's or Hewitt's Structural grammar. I'd say the most friendly language for a beginner is German, because then you get Abuladze's Lehrbuch der Georgischen Sprache with 33 lessons and audio and you get Tschenkéli's grammar and dictionary which are the most comprehensive ones. The best textbook in Russian is the Intensive Course by Nikolaishvili's and this one also got an English edition, though one can't find or order it. There's also Natadze and Tsibaxashvili and a few others that, even though they seem more user-friendly than Hewitt's, they'll just bring you slightly further than Kiziria's. So, German is the language for enhancing your Georgian materials, it's no longer Russian =D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 371 of 758 24 August 2012 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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პარასკევია და ძალიან დაღლილი ვარ. უკვე ვისწავლე ნიკოლაიშვილის გაკვეთილი და ჯერ კიდევ უნდა წავიკითხო ჰიუიტს გრამატიკა. ქართულის სწავლას შემდეგ მინდა ნორვეგიული ენა და ჯერ კიდევ ორი კურსი ვისდწავლო. ეს კურსები არ არის ენების შესახებ, მაგრამ ძალიან საინტერესო და მნიშვნელოვანია.
EDIT: I used the word 'დაღლილი' but I wonder if there's a 4th conjugation verb with the meaning "I'm tired", "You're tired" etc.? Edited by Expugnator on 24 August 2012 at 7:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 372 of 758 24 August 2012 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now it's time for one more motivational sentence from Hewitt's:
თუ ეგრე ძნელია, არასოდეს არ უნდა დაგეწყო ქართული. If it is as difficult as that, you should never have started Georgian (What does he expect instead? That everyone studies Abkhazian?) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| onkel_xiaoma Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4482 days ago 38 posts - 44 votes Speaks: German*, Mandarin Studies: Tatar, Turkish | Message 373 of 758 24 August 2012 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | ||
Probably :) http://lincom-shop.eu/shop/article_ISBN%2B9783895866708/LSG- %20%2003%3A-Abkhaz.html?pse=apq Edited by onkel_xiaoma on 24 August 2012 at 8:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| onkel_xiaoma Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4482 days ago 38 posts - 44 votes Speaks: German*, Mandarin Studies: Tatar, Turkish | Message 374 of 758 24 August 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really wonder if Hewitt continued his Georgia-bashing in his Abkhaz book... Edited by onkel_xiaoma on 24 August 2012 at 9:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 375 of 758 24 August 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Definitely! An author who can't tell linguistics from politics.
Some sample sentences. I'm pasting only the English translations, but they all come from sentences in Abkhazian and are the way one is supposed to learn to speak Abkhazian, according to Hewitt's view. "Your-MASC friend fought in opposition lo the Georgians. Now he is quaking in fear. What has made him quake so much?" "Far from getting them to understand what the Georgians are doing in Abkhazia, he could not even talk to the Americans,as they prefer ignorance'" "Are the Georgians so intelligent as lo do that?" This one is a footnote: "Though the names of Ihe months in common usage are mostly borrowed from Russian and closely resemble their international equivalents, native terms have been (?re)introduced since Abkhazia gained its independence from Georgia on SO"* September 1993." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| onkel_xiaoma Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4482 days ago 38 posts - 44 votes Speaks: German*, Mandarin Studies: Tatar, Turkish | Message 376 of 758 24 August 2012 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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No way! You also have the Abkhaz book? :)
I always wanted to buy it, but learning caucasian languages without audio is impossible for me (Maybe even with the audio in the case of Abkhaz). What makes him hate on Georgia that much, one wonders... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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