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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 465 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A busy day at university, but I managed to get my daily dose of Breton in (and mangle the
future tense something awful) and I also learned Hebrew plurals (and practiced the pronouns a bit more). Looks like Hebrew grammar is going to be more different than difficult; there seem to be no cases and this plural thing looks deceptively easy: -a for feminine singular (or -it), and -im for masculine plural as well as -ot for feminine plural. Everything in -it or -a is feminine, everything else is a masculine noun (in the base form). I am sure there are exceptions somewhere but my book does not seem to indicate them. Yet. Hmmm. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 466 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I guess after Russian everything seems simple :-)
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 467 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I did study Latin for five years. In my view Latin is harder than Russian.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 468 of 1511 08 January 2013 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I had to do a Latin exam about a lifetime ago, and I cannot remember that it felt particularly difficult at the
time, but I guess between the familiar vocabulary due to Spanish and French, the fact that I had the German case system fresh in my mind, which helped immensely with the cases, and that I was the only pupil so I had a university professor all to myself for 6 months and lots and lots of time to study might have helped :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5258 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 469 of 1511 09 January 2013 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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That's not true...There are lots of Hebrew words that are feminine and do not end with -a or -it. You cannot
really tell if a word is NOT feminine from its singular form, although you are right that everything ending in ית- is feminine (and ה-, as long as it sounds like "a" and not some other vowel sound). And you're right about the plural endings, although there are many exceptions! :) Wow, it makes Russian nouns seem so simple (but not really, what with all the declensions and whatnot ;)! Edited by zecchino1991 on 09 January 2013 at 12:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 470 of 1511 09 January 2013 at 12:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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I figured it would not be so simple, well, my luck yesterday was shit anyway Edited by tarvos on 09 January 2013 at 10:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 471 of 1511 09 January 2013 at 9:24am | IP Logged | |||||
Russian is a living language, while Latin is a sead one. The aims and methods of learning them are different. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 472 of 1511 09 January 2013 at 10:02am | IP Logged | |||||
Of course. But I find that not speaking Latin also hinders progress. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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