Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 9 of 26 05 December 2013 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
I'm in the same situation as jeff_lindqvist: interested in Persian, but busy with other languages at the moment. Maybe, I'll get to it during the second half of 2014, but I can't (or won't) join the TAC with it right now.
Anyway, if a Persian team comes into being, I'll follow your logs with interest!
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ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5229 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French
| Message 10 of 26 05 December 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged |
My main worry about Pashto is simply the paucity of materials. All grammars out there seem uncomfortably old or incomplete. Dictionaries are slim. Moreover, though there's surely a corpus out there, I'm not sure how accessible it would be to any of us.
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za20 Newbie Germany Joined 4198 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English
| Message 11 of 26 06 December 2013 at 1:35pm | IP Logged |
I have read some grammar books on these three languages. It seems to me that Pashto is the most difficult language of these three languages. Because Pashto has a very difficult and complicated grammar, maybe more difficult than Russian Grammar.
The easiest one is Persian Language. It has a simple grammar.
Kurdish is much easier than Pashto but more difficult than Persian.
Edited by za20 on 07 December 2013 at 12:36pm
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lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin
| Message 12 of 26 06 December 2013 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
I love Persian and I do something with it on most days, but there are a couple other languages I want to become proficient in before I really devote myself to Persian.
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druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian
| Message 13 of 26 06 December 2013 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
za20, thanks for the comparison! I know very little about Kurdish and Pashto (so far! ;)), just that resources are scarce and depending on what dialect of Kurdish you want to learn you might have a hard time to find anything...
lichtrausch, it's great to see someone else who is simultaneously interested in Persian, Korean and Mandarin!
Off-topic on this thread, but how about joining the Korean team for TAC 2014? ;)
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lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin
| Message 14 of 26 07 December 2013 at 3:52am | IP Logged |
druckfehler wrote:
Off-topic on this thread, but how about joining the Korean team for TAC 2014? ;) |
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I'm pretty much a solo learner so I don't know if TAC is for me. But I'll look into it.
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za20 Newbie Germany Joined 4198 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English
| Message 15 of 26 07 December 2013 at 12:31pm | IP Logged |
druckfehler wrote:
thanks for the comparison! I know very little about Kurdish and Pashto (so far! ;)), just that resources are scarce and depending on what dialect of Kurdish you want to learn you might have a hard time to find anything...
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It is Kurmanji Dialect on which I have read some grammar books and Kurmanji Dialect uses Latin Alphabet.
Edited by za20 on 07 December 2013 at 12:34pm
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Élan Senior Member United States Joined 5445 days ago 165 posts - 211 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Persian
| Message 16 of 26 07 December 2013 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
Kurmanji is really interesting to me. I'd love to follow your log.
I am a total TAC fail, but I'd be game to give it a try again this year if there were an Iranian language family team. I
study Persian (Farsi, but would like to study some Dari this year also.)
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