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 641 of 758 05 April 2013 at 6:01pm | IP Logged |
I'm glad that the exercises at EGS got shorter and changed the old layout of having a dozen of sentences for each of the Georgian cases. Now there are missing pages in the next lesson about numbers, but I don't think it's that important. Still, the other lesson is about the objective version. It will be a decisive opportunity for learning it. I'm not saying I won't have the chance to meet the topic again, but still I think the method at EGS worked the best for me and I hope it is enough this time.
At Le Petit Prince, a missing page at one of the final chapters. I read it in French and catched up later on the following chapter. I'm likely to finish it next week, then we'll see.
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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 642 of 758 06 April 2013 at 2:10am | IP Logged |
Georgian originals of the stories at Contemporary Georgian Fiction:
Mariam Bekauri - Debi
Lasha Bugadze - The
Round Table
Zaza Burchulaze - The Dubbing NOT FOUND (available at the book ფონოგრამა)
David Dephy - The Chair NOT FOUND (yet; the author seems to have all of his works
available. I just have to figure out which novel this story belongs to)
Teona Dolenjashvili - Real
Beings
Guram Dochanashvili - The Happy
Hillock
Rezo Gabriadze - The White
Bridge
Kote Jandieri - Cinderella's Night NOT FOUND (the book is available at lit.ge)
Irakli Javakhadze - Kolia
page=14&lang=geo&author=252&composition=363">Davit Kartvelishvili - The Squirrel
Besik Kharanauli - Ladies and Gentlemen NOT FOUND
Mamuka Kherkheulidze - A Caucasian Chronicle NOT FOUND
Archil Kikodze - The
Drunks
Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili - Rain NOT FOUND (she mentions Brazil in the text :/)
Zurab Lezhava - Love in a Prison Cell NOT FOUND
Maka Mikeladze - A Story of Sex NOT FOUND
Aka Morchiladze - Once Upon a Time in Georgian NOT FOUND
Zaal Samadashvili - Selling Books
(scroll down to post 3 at that page)
Nugzar Shataidze - November Rain NOT FOUND
I believe the odds are high that we find more works of the same authors mentioned above
which were not included in this collection available in Russian. This way, we can still
work out a bilingual reading. Besides, sometimes the stories are inside some books and
I couldn't figure out which books were those, as the titles don't always match. I did
in the case of Zaza Burchulaze, for example, but the book isn't available as an e-book.
Edited by Expugnator on 06 April 2013 at 2:14am
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zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 643 of 758 06 April 2013 at 2:21am | IP Logged |
Wow! Thank you! Until now I had only been able to find one or two of those...
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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 644 of 758 08 April 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
I applied to the fact that I was already late with other languages and decided to finish the long penultimate chapter at Le Petit Prince. Now I'm quite likely to finish it tomorrow. I have no idea what comes next, if not the textbook in Russian I already had in mind. At those final chapters I start to have a better comprehension of the sentences.
As for EGS, I managed to read the long lesson on numbers on a single day, too. That will leave me room for doing the exercises tomorrow and then starting to have the creeps about lesson 25 on objective versions =D
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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 645 of 758 09 April 2013 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
I finished Le Petit Prince! Time to update my French log as well.
I must say I had a glance at the first lines of Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la terre, and the Georgian in there seems easier to understand so far, I mean, there is a plot. Still, I don't know if it will be my next book. I have another textbook waiting for me.
As for the EGS, I managed to finish the exercises for the lesson on numbers. Tomorrow I need a fresh mind for the lesson on the objective person. I must say the German doesn't pose much problem so far. When a writer is better at explaining things, you get the point easier even on a language you don't understand as much. It's much easier to understand Tschenkéli's explanations in German than Aronson's in English. Information is hierarchized and structured at the Tschenkéli's book, yet it doesn't sound so linguistically verbose.
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zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 646 of 758 09 April 2013 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
I'm done with Aronson! Now we can move on to the other book if you want. :)
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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 647 of 758 10 April 2013 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
And so we did =D I just finished the first lesson. I learned about 5 new Georgian words and a lot of Russian ones. I'm starting to get used to the Russian grammatical terminology. Like I said, the most useful think about this textbook will be the extensive number of sentences we find at each lesson.
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zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 648 of 758 10 April 2013 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
Expugnator wrote:
I just finished the first lesson. I learned about 5 new Georgian
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Me too. I went over it a little yesterday, but I will go read it more thoroughly right
now. I skipped a lot of the Russian explanation and just looked at the vocabulary.
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