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Radioclare’s tac log 2015 (*jäŋe/*ledús) | ||
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 113 of 292 01 April 2015 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you tarvos, that's really interesting to know. I love when I can guess some words
of Russian from Croatian - it gives me hope that I'll be able to learn it one day :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| basica Senior Member Australia Joined 3534 days ago 157 posts - 269 votes Studies: Serbian | Message 114 of 292 01 April 2015 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
I have the same feeling. I occasionally pick up words and it makes me feel like :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 115 of 292 04 April 2015 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, that's how I feel too basica :)
This week I have spent some of my commuting time reading some of the grammar pdf from the Basic Croatian website. I have read it at least once before, but probably not for two years and I thought I might get more out of it at the level I'm at now. I have to say that I still find some of the grammar explanations in it unnecessarily confusing, but there is definitely some useful stuff and it must be the best free source of information about Croatian grammar. I have also started reading 'Књига о џунгли' (Jungle Book). I still keep procrastinating reading in Cyrillic because I subconsciously seem to regard it as being "too difficult", but every time I succeed in forcing myself to actually do it, it isn't anywhere near as bad as I think. I read 85 pages yesterday and learned some new words: jazbina = den soko = falcon I was impressed myself that I already knew the word 'čopor' (pack, in the context of wolves). Reading 'Twilight' really did have some educational value :D I watched another episode of 'Budva' yesterday. There was some actual bad weather in this episode (for the first time ever!) with waves crashing onto the promenade. The sinister Russian featured again but I can't work out what it is about his accent that sounds so odd. I've also been rereading some more of the BCS grammar textbook. I read the chapter which covered the conditional yesterday and that's one of those topics where I can definitely see that my understanding has improved a lot over the past year or so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 116 of 292 04 April 2015 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
In this case человек is simply the hmmm partitive form? I can't figure out the case, haha. Sounds like genetive plural but generally it would be людей/ljudej. I'm not sure why, but with an exact number it's just wrong, like *пять людей. Maybe because you use singular forms with smaller numbers, so it goes like один человек, два человека, пять человек. Maybe it has something to do with the dual, not sure. Человеки (čeloveki) is also used playfully sometimes, perhaps when imitating the speech of children, tired/drunk adults or aliens. In Ukrainian чоловік is the normal word for man btw, and жінка is a woman. This sounds jarring to a Russian ear. Edited by Serpent on 04 April 2015 at 4:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 117 of 292 04 April 2015 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Я, наверное, выпил, когда написал это предложение...
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 118 of 292 04 April 2015 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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The one word I couldn't make any kind of guess at there was выпил :)
I've mostly been visiting family today but had a bit of time for Croatian this morning. I went through the BCS grammar textbook and made notes on all the bits that touch on aspect. The layout of the textbook is not ideal - I would prefer it if there was just one chapter on each topic to consult, rather than bits of each topic being strewn throughout the entire thing. Thankfully the index is very good! I wanted to spend some time reading up on aspect because I feel like that's where I'm making the majority of my mistakes when I write (silly case errors excepted). I don't think these errors come from a lack of understanding as such; I think it's more a case of me not thinking about it carefully enough when I write. I then started trying to write 500 words on rdearman's next writing prompt, which is about what would you paint if you could paint anything in the world, but I probably only wrote 100 before I had to go out, so will need to come back to it tomorrow. It's lovely to have a few days off for Easter and be able to think about things like this :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 119 of 292 04 April 2015 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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it literally means "I drank" (or he drank) and it implies alcohol :) Edited by Serpent on 05 April 2015 at 12:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 120 of 292 05 April 2015 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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In this case it even means "I had drunk before I wrote that..." Self-effacing commentary
basically. Edited by tarvos on 05 April 2015 at 1:33am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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