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Georgian Notes, Doubts and Tips TAC 2013 | ||
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 561 of 758 02 January 2013 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
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Yes, they have merged. What do you mean add it to our list of languages?
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| 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 562 of 758 02 January 2013 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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Now I'll try to recall what I wrote about my Georgian plans before the iPad gently
erased it all (I even had the chance to write it down on paper, should have done that, anyway...). I've come to a point at Georgian at which (again) the lack of well-structured material starts to hinder progress. I'm currently using Georgian Language and Culture - A Continuing Course by Kiziria and Aronson but the literary samples are so far away from the daily language I need now, that, even though I read texts in bilingual split screen, I don't really bother checking in detail how the sentences are formed and which qord corresponds to which. The other book I'm using is Einführung in die Georgische Sprachen - a great book which, thank God, I'm able to follow despite not reading German yet. Still, it will take time for me to reach the chapters that deal with the perfect screeve, the participles and the different radicals for the verb to say - those three subjects I consider the biggest difficulties I have with Georgian now. Not coincidentally, these are my goals for 2013: 1. Be able to understand the formation and usage of the perfect series 2. Be able to actively use the past and future participles 3. Have a good active command of most daily forms for the verb to say in its different radicals and objective versions 4. Read one Georgian novel and one translated novel bilingually, in split-screen. 5. Write 20 paragraphs (now that's ambitious, given my level and considering there isn't always a native speaker around to correct it) I plan to achieve those goals by keeping on my studies on the aforementioned resources, but after I'm done with those two books I'm using now, I won't really have a bew textbook to use (unless I can read Russian, but that's another issue at another log ;). So, that will be my main trajectory: 1. Finish A Continuing Course 2. Finish Einführung der Georgische Sprachen 3. Start a "plain" grammar, w/o exercises and texts (probably Georgian - A Structural Reference Grammar, by Hewitt). 4. Review Aronson's or Hewitt's grammars I've already studied, if necessary at this point. 5. If #4 doesn't apply, proceed to reading a translated novel into Georgian 6. Start tacling Georgian news slowly by slowly. Wish me luck guys, I still haven't lost one cent of my passion for the Georgian language and culture, but in the past month I've felt that I was making little progress due to the specific resources I've been using. I'm currently still at an optimistic A2 and I want to finish 2013 at a consolidated B1. I do believe it's possible! In 2014 I'd be glad to visit Georgia as well!! წარმატებები! 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 563 of 758 02 January 2013 at 12:54am | IP Logged |
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I mean that even though we have two logs of our own for Georgian, we don't need to call
it a team, we can still list Georgian as our languages for the Team Mir. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 564 of 758 02 January 2013 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
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Ok, that sounds fine! I guess it doesn't really make sense to have a team with two people anyway. By the
way, you just reminded me I need to write my goals! :) 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 565 of 758 02 January 2013 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
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Today I'm finally reading about the old plural, lesson 7 of EGS (I'm gonna use it as
short for Einführung in die Georgische Sprachen, by Tschenkéli). It's simple! It was just a matter of surprise and lack of habit the first time I found 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 566 of 758 02 January 2013 at 7:24pm | IP Logged |
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I'm glad I made it through lesson 7. Last topic was about უ- prefix and the necessary
suffixes. As for the poetry at ACC, I'm still managing to read an author a day. It's very hard to learn anything from the archaic verbal forms, so, I'm learning much little from those excerpts. 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 567 of 758 03 January 2013 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
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I've just learned that instead of a construction with -თან you can use the plain genitive
to say that you've been to someone's house. So, besides ვისთან იყავით თქვენ გ უშინ საღამოს you can also say ვისას იყავით თქვენ გუ შინ საღამოს (at least that's what Tschenkéli said ath the exercises for EGS Lektion 7). 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 568 of 758 22 January 2013 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
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So, I just read a little more about the Georgian grammar at Tschenkéli's book. Today it
was about subject preffixes. Tschenkéli mentioned how ჰ- used to be the 2nd person subject preffix but is no longer used. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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