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| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4528 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 41 of 47 28 August 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Is caput related to Kopf (German for head)?
Oh! About winnie the pooh! The other day when I was reading HP I came across the word getigert, which means striped. And I immediately thought of Tigger from winnie the pooh. Then I was like OMG I discovered the origin of the name for Tigger! Then I realized that no, I did not... The name Tigger was probably inspired by the English Tiger :P Still kind of cool though the connection between English's Tiger and German striped. It's cool how we're both reading the Little Prince too :) I wish you lots of luck in that! And I hope you can get through it faster than I can in Chinese xP Edited by ZombieKing on 28 August 2012 at 8:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 42 of 47 31 August 2012 at 4:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have just spoken to Teango and he and his wife are here in the USA. Safely arrived, and he told me that he did ten minutes of Latin study at the airport, too!
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| sipes23 Diglot Senior Member United States pluteopleno.com/wprs Joined 4871 days ago 134 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Persian | Message 43 of 47 31 August 2012 at 5:27am | IP Logged | |||||
But it gets better. Looking at the root of pes, "ped-" you can see "foot". If you squint right anyway. Plenty other Latin/English words exist with the same p/f relation: foot/ped-, father/patr-, fart/pedit-. There is also a similar relation between c and h, e.g. centum/hundred, canis/hound. ¡Viva Grimm's law! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rob Tickner Senior Member New Zealand Joined 4489 days ago 126 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Swedish | Message 44 of 47 31 August 2012 at 8:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi Teango, enjoying this log, as I enjoyed your Spanish log.
One question - why do you seem intent on limiting yourself to 10 minutes per day? Is this part of the official method of the book, or more the way that you prefer to learn languages? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4528 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 45 of 47 31 August 2012 at 8:17am | IP Logged | |||||
It's an experiment that was inspired by a thread about the acquisition of a foreign language by learning in 5-10 minute sessions everyday over the course of many years. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 46 of 47 04 November 2012 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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Just a quick note to let everyone know that I've had to shelve my studies for a couple of months whilst I moved to Honolulu and settled in. However, I'm back on the forum now, and ready to continue where I left off in Latin. Following the success of this Latin experiment so far and how much I've enjoyed it, I've decided to go one step further and extend the principle of 10 minutes a day (or at least every working day) to more languages and write about the process on my new logbook. I'll continue from where I left off in Lingua Latina, and post updates here periodically to let you all know how I'm getting on specifically in Latin..."dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero"! [Horace, Odes 1.11] Edited by Teango on 04 November 2012 at 5:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 47 of 47 16 August 2013 at 12:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, I haven't forgotten you, "Lift off in Latin". As I mentioned in my last update (back in 2012), I will continue my studies with "Lingua Latina" in my "15 Minutes a Day" log from now on (for anyone who's interested in following my ongoing progress in Latin or curious about "inductive reading"). Hope to see you there! :) Edited by Teango on 16 August 2013 at 12:13am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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