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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6714 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 18 27 October 2006 at 5:56am | IP Logged |
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Since last time I contributed to this thread I have actually taken up Greek (though only modern Greek, not ancient Greek). But before that I made an experiment: I knew the letters and I had taught myself how to pronounce them only using books (it was around 1980, before the advent of the internet and without any audio sources at hand), and later of course I had heard some Greek on travels, but without trying to learn the language.
Then I was asked to help a Cypriot collegue to install Greek letters on her computer, and just for fun I read aloud a Greek text she had brought. I didn't know what I was reading, but she understood. It just goes to show that with some understanding of theoretical phonetics and a good textbook with pronunciation hints you can get far, and then later you can start refining your pronunciation based on input from native speakers. It doesn't have to be the other way round. Apart from that I still advocate thinking in a new language, but I acknowledge that you have to learn a bit of the language before it makes sense. Edited by Iversen on 27 October 2006 at 5:58am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| japkorengchi Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6691 days ago 334 posts - 355 votes | Message 18 of 18 05 November 2006 at 9:32am | IP Logged |
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I think the best way to motivate a language is to make good friend with a few native speakers. It doesn't have to be a lot of native speakers friend around you. But once you have developed deep friendship with him/her, you just simply don't care about the pain of learning his/her language.
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