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| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 14 22 November 2010 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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"btw, are you a Captain Kirk fan? " Is this an online euphemism for something? Or does the venerable Captain
Shatner speak fluent Russian?! When you say that flashcards are a temporary tool for you, I take it you mean you like to incorporate and use new vocabulary quickly, so making the flashcards redundant? I may make some with sentences on anyway, as there is a rhythm as well as pronunciation to get used to, and the whole 'hard/soft endings if followed in next word by hard/soft letters' thing.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6541 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 10 of 14 23 November 2010 at 2:45am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's all about his cool middle name.
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Sounds like a good usage for sentences. Best of luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6263 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 11 of 14 25 November 2010 at 11:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
A gateway to some of them. Azerbaijani and perhaps Turkmen are more or less mutually intelligible with the standard Turkish of Turkey. As you get further out, the grammar and especially the vocabulary become more different. Uzbek, I understand, has lost vowel harmony, probably as a result of Persian influence. Turkish is sometimes studied and spoken in post-USSR Turkic states, but I would not have thought Turkish and Kazakh were all that close, though certainly related to each other. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 14 26 November 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hmm...
I met a woman who spoke Tatar, she said she could understand Turkish easily, but they couldn't understand her language that easily. She also said they liked to hear her speak Tatar as it amused them! Same but different, I suppose. Her friend with her was Kazakh, but she didn't say anything, so I still don't know what Kazakh sounds like... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6263 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 13 of 14 27 November 2010 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Asymmetric intelligibility, where there is some degree of comprehension but more one way than the other. The partial comprehension of another language might be like that poem Jabberwocky which is basically English, but with enough made-up and mysterious words to make full comprehension difficult if not impossible. I suspect that is how hearing Uzbek or Tatar might come across to a Turkish speaker. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 14 27 November 2010 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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That's some new terminology for me.
I often get the impression that I understand the sense of a spoken sentence in a language that I barely know, but I think that may well be an illusion. Human pattern recognition, or maybe just picking up on the changes in tone and emphasis on words probably feed into this. On the other hand, I know how impossible it is to understand something if you start by thinking you really can't. So some level of confidence is necessary. One thing that gets lost when learning a language is the sense of language as music, I find. Comprehension is sometimes less beautiful than lack of comprehension, and I think that sense of being mesmerised by sounds that don't make sense is where my motivation to learn Russian comes from. A Polish friend of mine used to love English pop music before she learned English: I think she was disappointed to find how banal the lyrics are! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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