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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes  Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 33 of 403 26 January 2016 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Today there was a long breakout in my office, and while the others were confused about what they should do, I just reread my language notes and noticed that German number system is similar to Arabic. That's why I was kind of familiar with the Arabic system. I have posted about the number here though:
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 34 of 403 27 January 2016 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Found an interesting thing. The Arabic, the word "waroqun" means both "paper" and "leaf", while the Japanese for "paper" itself (kami) can also mean "hair". All of them (paper, leaf, and hair) in Indonesia have the same unit: "helai" (sheet).
Oh, that's from the plant theme. From the animal theme, I found out that the Arabic for "rooster" is "diik". It is really easy to remember, since in Indonesia it is pronounced the same as "dick", the slang meaning of "rooster"'s synonym (cock). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 35 of 403 27 January 2016 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now learning about possession pronouns in Arabic. I like the way Madinah Arabic site explains it per perspective and gender, like this:
2nd male = -ka 2nd female = -ki 3rd male = -hu 3rd female = -haa 1st singular = -ii 1st plural = -naa Instead of when I learnt them in religion school when I was a kid, we must memorize 14 of them at once. Of course a child's brain is not enough to memorize them in 45 minutes. Now let's give it a try: Your hand (male) = yaduka Your heart (female) = qolbuki His foot (male) = qodamuhu Her face (female) = wajhuhaa My tongue = lisaanii Our eyes = 'ainunaa 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 36 of 403 28 January 2016 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished the introduction part in NihonGo Master site. Want to continue but we have to become premium member for that and I don't have enough fund to do it. It's a shame because almost all lessons in the introduction part, I have understood before I even registered to that site. My vocabs did boost a little, though. Also, I can understand why not everything is free because if we can learn free Japanese to the point of fluency, who would take a Japanese literature subject?
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 37 of 403 28 January 2016 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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All along this time I always depend on Omniglot to look for language learning sites. I have tried all the sites listed in the Japanese page (the free ones) I ran out of learning sites. Then an idea hit me, why didn't I try to look for them in the forum glossary? I went there and encountered the entry about FSI. I tried to open it and it took about half an hour. When I reached the Japanese language learning page, I got excited because the modules looked so promising. Then I decided to learn Japanese from this site this time, not to mention that the forum glossary said that FSI is often said as one of the three most useful language program (dunno about the other two, but I am sure time will tell).
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 38 of 403 29 January 2016 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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New Vocabs I Have Unlocked in My Memory
Arabic: Al-ladzii = Which (male) Al-latii = Which (female) Naafidzatun = Window Japanese: Matsuri = Festival Gohan = Rice Hashi = Chopstick Also, tried to translate the Symbol Powers from Power Rangers Samurai to Arabic: 火 = نار 水 = ماء 木 = شجرة 土 = ارض 天 = جنّة 光 = نور Hope I got them right. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 39 of 403 30 January 2016 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Still reading the Japanese module from FSI. The first module is all about Japanese culture. I tried answering the quiz and surprisingly got them all right, probably because Indonesians have similar-but-not-as-great politeness as Japan. I do prefer living here, though. Now I am in the beginning of module 2.
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5141 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 40 of 403 31 January 2016 at 5:33am | IP Logged | ||
Made a set of flashcards. It consists the first 16 of grade 1 Kanji. Those cards are used to learn Japanese and Arabic vocabs at once. Because reading Kanji without Furigana is essentially the same as reading Arabic without vowels, in those cards I made the non-voweled Arabic words as the Furigana so I can get used in both of them:
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