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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4600 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 8 03 December 2012 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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by 'other' languages, I mean languages that arent even a target language... for instance, I dont really care very much
right now about Russian, but thanks to exposure in the language community I was able to understand a title on youtube and watch a video that was of interest to me... I couldnt read the whole title, but 'йо-йо' stood out and I knew what that meant [yoyo]... anybody else have any experiences like this? 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 2 of 8 03 December 2012 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
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There are a ton of languages I get this in; they're pretty much all linguistically
related to something else I know. I don't speak Portuguese but I'll still pick something up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 8 03 December 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged |
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This thread might be interesting for you: http://how-to-learn-any-
language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32108&PN=1&TPN=5 (delete any spaces inserted by the forum's software). 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4600 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 4 of 8 03 December 2012 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
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while I am facinated with being to read other languages based on ones I already have a knowledge in, I thought this
was different because I dont know russian or anything similar to russian... I was only able to read it because I picked up little things from other learners, and general background noise on the forums :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 8 03 December 2012 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
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I ended up starting to learn these languages:)
Right now the only one that qualifies as a non-target language (and one I actively dislike!) is French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Liv Newbie Australia linguallife.com Joined 4384 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish | Message 6 of 8 07 December 2012 at 4:40am | IP Logged |
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Yep. I have a few people from Brazil on facebook and I find I can read most of what they write there thanks to my
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 8 07 December 2012 at 9:53am | IP Logged |
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I rarely deal with Frisian - once upon a time I remember I found a Frisian homepage, but I had a hard time understanding the content. Next time was in August 2011, where question was the number of speakers, and I found an estimate on the Frisian Wikipedia for speakers in the Netherlands (including Stadfries), and it was unexpected high: "Fan 'e likernôch 630.000 ynwenners fan 'e provinsje Fryslân kin 94% Frysk ferstean, 74% Frysk prate, 65% Frysk lêze en 17% Frysk skriuwe." OK, Dutch + a lot of y's, I could spell my way through it. And then a few days ago I read through several pages of Frisian to search for a specific grammatical construction, and lo and behold, in spite of a number of unknown words I had now no problems in getting the structure of the Frisian sentences and mostly also their meaning. As far as I know my listening time with this language amounts to about 10 seconds in my whole life (maybe plus one of profArguelles' videos, but I'm not sure), and as I mentioned I don't really search for Frisian materials, so the progress must be due to more competence in the other ingwäonic languages and nonspecific training in reading neighbouring languages. Edited by Iversen on 07 December 2012 at 9:56am 3 persons have 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 8 of 8 07 December 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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Stadsfries is not Frisian, but Dutch, influenced by the Frisian. It's a dialect of Dutch.
For the record, I could probably learn to read Frisian, but it's in an area of the country I have never ever been to. Strange, considering that my given name hails from that very part of the country. Another notable feature of Frisia is that they have established trilingual primary schools in some places: providing immersion settings for the use of Frisian, Dutch and English. If that type of stuff starts working... Edited by tarvos on 07 December 2012 at 5:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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