mjcdchess Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6947 days ago 46 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 329 of 489 23 November 2007 at 1:00pm | IP Logged |
Yeah welcome back I think the method is wonderful.
It works for learning chess as well
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apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6650 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto
| Message 330 of 489 23 November 2007 at 1:05pm | IP Logged |
V wrote:
It's me, siomotteikiru.
I couldn't log in so I thought I might have been banned for whatever reason.
I wasn't sure though, so I reregistered twice and twice I was banned.
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Using a ? for a name and referring to siomotteikiru in the third person in your posts was rather insulting to our respective intelligences.
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MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6447 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish
| Message 331 of 489 23 November 2007 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
As for me, you are one of the persons who had influenced me in the most positive way. I improved my English listening, reading and speaking a great deal. I, too, have never learned how to write this language with rather un-orthodox orthography.
The biggest problem for me, at least, is to find the stuff that "I am passionately in love with", in any language. But, there, indeed, are so many novels and pieces of literature I haven't read yet, so exploring them in order to find something beautiful to my taste would be the most enjoyable task. I noticed also that voice and background music (if it is provided) are of the same importance as plot of the novel.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 332 of 489 24 November 2007 at 3:48am | IP Logged |
Back to the actual discussion:
I would like to try out the Listening-Reading method as described in the first post for a language that I don't know yet. However, there's one huge problem with it: I have never seen a novel-length text (as suggested) with a word-by-word translation (as suggested). Can anybody help me out?
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| Message 333 of 489 24 November 2007 at 3:51am | IP Logged |
I did translate some into Polish.
From English, French and Japanese.
siomotteikiru
Post scriptum
You can have a look at how it was done. I posted a link somewhere (perhaps in this thread) to English-Polish "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
Here's the link:
www.stultorum.pochta.ru\Eng\AliceP-A-Gr.7z
It's in doc format, should be read in Word 2000.
Edited by q on 24 November 2007 at 6:38am
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| Message 334 of 489 24 November 2007 at 3:52am | IP Logged |
And there are some translated into Russian as well.
And I've seen The Hebrew Bible and The Greek New Testament.
siomotteikiru
Edited by q on 24 November 2007 at 3:55am
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| Message 335 of 489 24 November 2007 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
Word per word translation is not necessary.
Depends how closely the languages are related.
siomotteikiru
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MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6447 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish
| Message 336 of 489 24 November 2007 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
Form of the method? Could you please explain further?
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