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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5174 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 313 of 431 19 March 2012 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tixhiidon, I know could browse back, so I hope you don't mind if I ask here: Which was your first text/reading resource for Georgian?
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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5472 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 314 of 431 19 March 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi Expugnator. The first Georgian texts I read were the big collection of dialogues in Georgian Language and Culture: A Continuing Course, by Kiziria and Aronson, and a short novel by David Turashvili called ჯინსების თაობა (Jeans Generation), which I read side by side with its English translation, called "Flight from USSR". The dialogues are really fantastic. There are about 100 pages of them, and they tell the story of a guy who goes to live in Tbilisi for a year. Unfortunately, the book is difficult to get hold of and quite expensive, but it would be possible to download only the part including the dialogues from Uz Translations, which of course is not strictly legal, so I'm not recommending that, but just saying it's possible...... The novel by Turashvili is available in Georgian from a site called fromrussia.com, and the English translation is available from Prospero's Books, a foreign language bookstore in Tbilisi. So it's all a bit complicated and costs a lot of money in postage, but sadly we Kartvelologists don't have much choice in the matter. It's also possible to buy a couple of novels by a writer called Nodar Dumbadze in Georgian from fromrussia.com and in English from Amazon. So this would be the cheapest option! However, his writing is quite difficult to understand so it's hard work even with the translation. EDIT: Just remembered. Another great reading source is the რადიო თავისუფლება website. Lots of interesting articles on there, often with accompanying audio that is almost identical to the text, so you can do a kind of L-R exercise. Also some nice short videos showing people giving their opinions on various issues on the streets of Tbilisi. Edited by TixhiiDon on 19 March 2012 at 11:51pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5174 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 315 of 431 20 March 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I do have Continuing Course from Kiziria and Aronson, but since they refer so often to Aronson's grammar, I think I'll start with the newspaper reader. I planned to use the Continuing Course as an intermediate textbook, not only as a reader. I do like the dialogues!
Radio Tavisupebla is bookmarked! I think that once going past the newspaper reader, I won't have much trouble understanding their texts. Since I don't have means of getting a specific novel, I'll stick to what I could find around there, but this after I'm using to reading news articles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5266 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 316 of 431 20 March 2012 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
I love that! By the way, thanks for all the info, it really helps me. There are a lot more resources than I thought for Georgian... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5472 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 317 of 431 09 April 2012 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Just grabbing ten minutes of peace in my suddenly ridiculously busy life to write a quick update. The reason
for said ridiculous busyness, by the way, is that my family are here from the UK for a visit. They are leaving on Sunday, but before then, on Thursday morning, to be precise, my life will be completely upturned by the arrival of my new puppy Juno. I'm not sure how my Georgian will fit into this new regime at Chez Tixhiidon, but I certainly don't intend to abandon it completely. The quick update is to inform Zecchino and Expugnator and anyone else who might be interested that suddenly a whole new bunch of Georgian and Georgia-related apps have turned up at the Apple app store. Most are not free, but all are very cheap. First is a Georgian keyboard app called iGeorgian, which, despite having a weird keyboard layout, will remain useful until the powers-that-be at Apple HQ realize that there is another Georgia besides the one that contains Atlanta and that this other Georgia has its own alphabet and even a few iPhone and iPad users. A Georgian cookbook in English called, rather unimaginatively, Georgian recipes, is quite nice too, but doesn't hold a candle to Please to the Table (tried to do a link and it didn't work, so look it up on Amazon), which is without question the greatest Russian/Soviet cookbook ever created. Another great book, and ideal, I think, for Georgian learners needing a few simple texts to start reading native materials, is Lado Asatiani, about the short-lived but much-loved (apparently - i hadn't actually heard of him until i bought the app yesterday) Georgian poet. There is a short biography, the poems themselves, and a collection of letters. I'm not a huge poetry fan, but beggars and Georgian learners can't be choosers, and so far it looks pretty good. This being Georgia, there were also a few collections of Orthodox Christian prayers, but I'll leave those for people so-inclined. And one warning. There is a dictionary on there called, uh, Dictionary. And it's only English-Georgian, so not a great deal of use to the Georgian learner. I'll be back soon with a report on how little Juno has turned my life upside-down. Maybe I'll try to write it in Georgian next time, just to persuade myself that I am still making a proper effort to learn this lovely language. Edited by TixhiiDon on 09 April 2012 at 1:10am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5174 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 318 of 431 09 April 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've checked those apps now, thanks for the suggestions, Tixhiidon. I tried to find them "at the other side", if you apple users know what i mean, but nothing yet. I'll keep an eye for more language-related ones.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5174 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 319 of 431 10 April 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tixhiidon, when writing Georgian, do you do Georgian normal, cursive, ligated handwriting or do you write it as if it were printed letters?
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5266 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 320 of 431 10 April 2012 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you so much for the suggestions! I got the poem one and the keyboard.
I like that. :P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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