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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6949 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 17 of 25 18 April 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'll really be looking forward to the results of your 3-month Indonesian experiment! I
too have been interested because of its reputation as "The Easy Asian Language" and as a crossroads between many different cultures, but unfortunately I don't know much about the language nor the culture beyond that. I'll be participating in the 6WC with Spanish, so here's wishing the best for both of us! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 25 26 April 2011 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sorry Lucky Charms! ..but.. I changed last minute to HINDI!!
Yes, that's right , I'm changing my language right before the start date of the 6 week May challenge. There are just so many more opportunities to practice Hindi than Indonesian in Eugene! ... Conversation groups, restaurants, etc... With Hindi, I'm pretty much starting from ground level and I really am curious how much I can learn in 6 weeks! My plan is to learn the alphabet, do one unit of Assimil Le Hindi Sans Peine a day, plus TY Beginner's Hindi/ TY Hindi ( a unit every few days). We shall see... My goal is to get through all 3 books in 6 weeks and see where I am at. I hope to be able to roughly follow a Bollywood dialogue (without subtitles, of course) and be able to raise the eyebrows of the staff at my favorite Indian restaurant in town. ( & not have them say "ooooooh... your Hindi is hurting our ears!!") Edited by liddytime on 27 April 2011 at 11:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6949 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 19 of 25 27 April 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
It's OK, I forgive you ;) Hindi is awesome too!
This goes without saying, but make sure they actually speak Hindi first! It was probably really stupid, but I recently asked a Sinhalese speaker if he could understand any spoken Hindi because I had read that they were related, and he seemed a little annoyed. Oops :( Best of luck to you, and I wish you many plates of curry and Bollywood dance numbers on your 6 week journey! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 20 of 25 27 April 2011 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ah ha! Good point! I tried to speak some Dari to a woman at an Afghan restaurant once and she just kind of gave me a confused look and a half cocked smile. Then about half-way home it struck me... OMG she probably speaks Pashto!! I'm pretty darn sure my friends at the restaurant speak Hindi though ... sure sounds like Hindi anyway ... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6040 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 22 of 25 27 April 2011 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Good luck I just started learning the alphabet last weekend :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 23 of 25 19 May 2011 at 3:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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हाँ! तीन सप्ताह मैं हिन्दी सीख गया.
मैं वर्णमाला सीखा रहा हूँ और लेखन. मैं एक छोटे से टीवी समझ सकता हूँ! Yeah! Three weeks I have been learning Hindi. I learned the alphabet and am writing. I can even understand a little TV! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| michi Nonaglot Newbie Austria Joined 5301 days ago 33 posts - 57 votes Speaks: Dutch*, German, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese Studies: Turkish, Arabic (Written), Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, Japanese | Message 24 of 25 15 August 2012 at 11:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have voted for Japanese but after that I have read that you have already chosen to learn Hindi. That is also one of the languages I would prefer to learn next! Like you I am also interested in everything Japanese and I have learned the language a little bit before we went to Japan. But is really a hard language - especially to read and write. Every evening I rehearse some kanji.
It is a pity you didn't choose Indonesian, but you could learn it sooner or later. I have learned it first on my own and then I attended a languages school in Yogyakarta for two weeks. But that was enough to speak it everybody. Indonesian is really an easy language to learn and one of the most spoken in the world. I also had personal motives to learn it, because my mother was born there when it was a Dutch colony. However I was surprised that Indonesia is such an interesting and pleasant county. A proof that it is easy language to learn is that nearly all the foreigners that I met there spoke it. That is great contrast to e.g. the Arabic countries when most of the foreigners don't seem to take much effort to learn Arabic. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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