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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7161 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 9 of 21 22 April 2009 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm usually more of the mind about cutting to the chase. In this case, just go right into Uzbek if you really want to learn it - no need to look for a discount first. Why make the learning process more circuitous?
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| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6623 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 10 of 21 23 April 2009 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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A lot of people in Uzbek and other parts of Central Asia speak Russian in addition to their native tongues. While Russian may not give much of a discount for learning Uzbek, it certainly wouldn't hurt to learn Russian if you want to talk to some Uzbek friends or travel over to the country.
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| !LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6826 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish | Message 11 of 21 23 April 2009 at 11:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Nah, you wouldn't get any benefit (except a few loan words) for Uzbek from learning Russian, Arabic or Persian. These three are totally different languages than Uzbek (Uzbek is a Turkic language, Russian is a Slavic, Arabic a Semitic, and Persian an Indo-European language).
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| zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6446 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 12 of 21 23 April 2009 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, there's more than just a few. Persian (and Arabic laundered through Persian) loan words make up as much as 40-50% of the Uzbek lexicon, from what I've read. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6895 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 13 of 21 24 April 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you want to learn Uzbek, then learn Uzbek.
Learning Arabic, Persian and Russian may help a little but learning those three languages will take a LOT of time. If you're really interested in learning Uzbek, you might as well just start learning rather than wait till you've mastered the other three languages. Alternatively, learn Turkish. Uzbek is a Turkic language so you might find that a better stepping stone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6670 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 14 of 21 24 April 2009 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sure, it'll help you with vocabulary, but not with grammar in any way. It's true that Turkish is the optimal "gateway" language to Uzbek, for which there exist relatively few learning resources.
Don't underestimate the difficulty of Persian! Although it's morphologically easy, it'll take you years to master. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| !LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6826 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish | Message 15 of 21 27 April 2009 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah you are right, even 30% of Turkish is made up of Persian and Arabic words, as far as I know. But hey, both German and English have been strongly influenced by French (vocabulary) and still learning French won't help you a lot with English or German. Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ShifuYaku Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5268 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 16 of 21 28 June 2010 at 8:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, my name is ShifuYaku, and I am currently learning Uzbek as my second language. I will be visiting
Uzbekistan next year, and I was really wondering if there was an easier way to learn any language. I need to learn more about this language before May of next year. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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