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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 1 of 1 20 March 2014 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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What outstands when learning a language much distant from yours (a non-Romance one, in
my case) is that you miss the vocabulary discount even for abstract words that are assumed to be international. Those words tend to be highly frequent, especially in non- fiction, newspapers. They also tend to look similar to each other (just like in my native language or English, for example, as they are formed from inflection or juxtaposition terms that render a concrete noun into an abstract one) and they tend to cover a wider range of meanings and contexts than a concrete noun such as 'book'. Therefore, it may be wise to sort them out in your mind. Maybe a list of the most frequent abstract noun will already give you a boost on understanding news articles. Consider these words: condition education experience repetition development issue question test publication Let me try with Georgian: მდგომარეობა - mdgomareoba განათლება - ganatleba გამოცდილება - gamocdileba გამეორება - gameoreba განვითარება - ganvitareba საკითხი - sak'itxi კითხვა - k'itxva გამოცდა - gamocda გამოცემა - gamocema A lot of them will have this -oba/-eba sounds and since the root to them is alien to my knowledge, telling one from another will have to rely on serious focus. So, I find it especially useful to learn to tell them apart in the beginning. Any experiences at this respect? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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