LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 145 of 231 05 January 2013 at 1:23am | IP Logged |
Hi guys,
Just a note to say that I have very recently (in the last 10 hours or so) been informed I am to return to China on Sunday, so I will be offline from probably mid-morning Saturday GMT until, jet-lag permitting, probably Tuesday morning Shanghai time. I will post the challenges when I get back as they will be finished... I have to do something on that plane back. Sorry it's all a bit of a rush, shouldn't happen again.
LanguageSponge / Jack
Edited by LanguageSponge on 05 January 2013 at 1:23am
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 146 of 231 05 January 2013 at 2:04am | IP Logged |
Have a lovely trip!
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5394 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 147 of 231 05 January 2013 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
I wish someone would send me a note telling me I'm going to China in three days. :)
Have a great trip. We will be waiting for you. :)
Edited by Kerrie on 05 January 2013 at 2:45am
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embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek
| Message 148 of 231 06 January 2013 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
Καλό ταξίδι, Τζακ !
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ancpem1 Groupie United States Joined 4387 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin, French
| Message 149 of 231 06 January 2013 at 4:42am | IP Logged |
Praying for your safe trip!
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4357 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 150 of 231 06 January 2013 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
Last post on cursive, for those who would like to try their hand on it.
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aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6239 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian
| Message 151 of 231 06 January 2013 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
Wow, look at the cursive for big ksi with no less than 5 loops! Although I'm not in a hurry right now to try this out I
really appreciate all the interesting contributions made on the subject of cursive in this thread. In a week or two I
will start by trying to write some Greek on my keyboard and then we'll see if I feel tempted to write by hand as well.
//aloysius
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 152 of 231 10 January 2013 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
It has been quiet here for a few days now, so I thought I would like to share a peculiar experience I had with the Langenscheidt Griechisch mit System. in the second lesson I came over the following: ζι καν κάιν γκρίχισ.
I could not find any of these words in the vocabulary list and really could not make any sense of it, until I listend again to the recording and then it struck me - it's German! He is saying "Sie kann kein Grichisch". The words are spoken by a Mr. Pavlidis in a conversation with the German student Martin.
I hope there won't be too many cases like this in the book, it is very confusing.
Then I have a question to the advanced or native speakers: If in a Greek text you quote something in another language, e.g. English, would you still use the Greek alphabet rather than the Latin? How would you write "Yes we can" in Greek script: Ιέσ υι καν?
By the way, I look forward to see the challenges. Jack, I know from another thread that you had a tough journy back to China, but I hope you will soon provide your list of challenges to Team Sparta.
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