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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 17 of 26 07 December 2013 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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@ druckfehler:
I wrote a few days ago that our Middle Eastern group didn't work out this year. Then I saw your comment on the same subject. A group based on such a mix (plus French!) didn't stand much of a chance from the beginning, in my opinion. This year, I'll still be entering with Arabic, and I'll also add Sanskrit. I made a playful comment on how an Indo-Aryan group could be formed, or even an Indo-Iranian one. It was just a nice idea, of course. I can think of at least a half dozen languages to go along with Sanskrit better than Persian. Having said all that, I think I'll follow you guys closely. And I wish you the best of luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5408 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 18 of 26 08 December 2013 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been flirting with Persian for some years and finished Assimil Persian in August but haven't done anything since apart from some listening to Persian radio.
I don't intend to participate in the TAC 2014 (knowing too well that I'll surely drop out after a couple of months) but I will follow a Persian team with great interest. Edited by akkadboy on 08 December 2013 at 12:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 19 of 26 08 December 2013 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
I got about halfway through Assimil Persian a couple years ago, and was planning on revisiting the course again this year. How do feel about your level in the language after having completed it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5408 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 20 of 26 08 December 2013 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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It is a bit weird actually. On the one hand, I really enjoyed the course, which I find very well graded (except that there's too much vocab in the last 20 lessons). On the other hand, I was a bit disappointed by the level I reached after completing it.
I can understand lots of things on the radio but not enough to get more than the gist of what is being said and the odd sentence here and there. Of course I may be the one to blame here rather than the course, because I used it as my only ressource which is of course not a great thing to do. I also intended to revisit it in a thorough way, and surely I forgot a lot since this summer. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5732 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 21 of 26 08 December 2013 at 6:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not going to be doing TAC, but if people form a Sanskrit team I'll happily cheer you on and answer
questioms if I can, since I've been studying for a few years. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 22 of 26 09 December 2013 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's great to read all your feedback! I thought Persian, Kurdish and Pashto were pretty much nonexistent on HTLAL these days, so it's great to see so much interest after all!
@Élan: Do you know the free DLI Dari course? It looks like a very good reasource! If you do decide to join TAC, I'm sure ellasevia and I would be delighted ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 23 of 26 10 December 2013 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Recently, I've made a bet with aa friend from Iran: two bottles of wine if I can manage basic Farsi
conversation when we meet again. The problem is that neither of us know when that we'll be; both of us work for NGOs and usually meet at conferences and the like. While I'm not really a wine drinker, I am eager to win this bet, hence my sudden interest in this language family. I've downloaded some apps but couldn't find anything really good in the Google play store. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 24 of 26 11 December 2013 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||
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@ennime Try the Chai and Conversation podcasts available on iTunes (or their website, just google the name). They teach you basic conversational topics (your name, family, where you are from, what you like and dislike...) in the right language register. Maybe that will do the trick!
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