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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 409 of 431 09 March 2013 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Looking forward to hearing your experience with a Georgian teacher through Skype,
Tixhiidon. Though I'm still not in the level at which i'd benefit from conversational classes. This resource is really good, if only it got adapted for English speakers! We'd have one of the best resources available. I know zero Armenian and zero Azeri, I'd do just like you, use it as a source for dialogues in Georgian. I agree with you about the online libraries, they're cheap and now I have enough resources for inspiring me to consistently read in the language. I'm sure I could always resort to more experienced learners for the most complicated sentences =D @iguanamon, did you search for your tutor at a specific place? I may try Chinese or French, languages at which I'm more advanced than in Georgian (well not sure if my Chinese is better than my Georgian, but Chinese is the type of language that even for asking where the toilet is you need to say everything absolutely correct, so, native speaker's advice is pretty much necessary even at the tourist level). Good luck with your upcoming trip to Georgia, Tixhiidon! There was a remote chance that I'd go there in September, but I think this isn't the most appropriate time, I'll wait for next year maybe, if things go as planned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 410 of 431 09 March 2013 at 9:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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One thing I've noticed: they don't seem to have transcription to the dialogues, do they?
For example, at lesson 13 - ოჯახი. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5257 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 411 of 431 09 March 2013 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I noticed that too, Expugnator. I don't think they have any, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right
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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5463 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 412 of 431 09 March 2013 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for all the replies folks. Iguanamon, thanks for letting me know that you've
benefited from skype lessons. Good to hear it from the horse's mouth! Expug, this site http://www.language-school-teachers.com/ seems to be the best for finding language teachers. It's the one I'm planning on using if I do decide to go ahead and get a tutor, anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marich27 Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5416 days ago 41 posts - 42 votes Speaks: Georgian*, EnglishC2, Dutch | Message 413 of 431 10 March 2013 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi TixhiiDon! I see you are looking for a teacher to practice your Georgian via skype. I
can give you the contacts of a teacher in Georgia and you could try if you want. Her skype user name is: natiaimeda or facebook ილიკო თედორაშვილი. Good luck and let me know if you can't reach her. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5261 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 414 of 431 11 March 2013 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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You're more than welcome, TD. Expugnator, finding a good tutor can be difficult. The person should be astute enough to recognize your problems by analyzing your speaking, comprehension, phonetics and usage. Then, the tutor must be able to devise a method to help you fix those problems. I am so lucky with my Portuguese tutor. I found her ad, online, in a classified ad in a Spanish language newspaper, because I specifically wanted someone who was not an English-speaker. Not being able to rely on English and refusing to speak Spanish unless I absolutely have to do so, really forces me to think in the TL.
A good site for tutors is italki.com, I hired my Haitian Creole tutor from there. Rates are reasonable. Since it is one on one instruction, you need to find someone with whom you can build a good rapport, someone who will correct you when you need it and will work with you on your weaknesses, not someone who will force their own way on you, disregarding your needs. You may have to go through a few before you find the right one. Don't be afraid to drop someone if you don't feel that person is a good fit for you. Once again, working with a tutor a couple of times a week is a supplement, not the whole focus of my learning. Combining my own, self-study, reading, listening, speaking, on-line chatting and writing, with the aid of a tutor has done wonders for me. I highly recommend it. Working with my tutor is what ties it all together for me, I look forward to those two, 1 hour, sessions every week. Edited by iguanamon on 11 March 2013 at 1:46am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5257 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 415 of 431 22 March 2013 at 4:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey, this is not about Georgian at all, but I just now realized what your name means,
TixhiiDon. Don't know why it never clicked before! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5463 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 416 of 431 22 March 2013 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
Ha! I don't know why I chose it, to be honest. I've read the book and watched the old TV series, and I enjoyed them both, but they're not my favourites or anything. I guess I just wanted something Russian and something literary but also something that sounds vaguely like a nickname for an Internet forum. How did you figure it out? Are you reading the book? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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