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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4521 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 1 of 11 09 June 2015 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently working on a thesis concerning language learning of low-resource languages. Could some of you spare a few minutes and fill out a form? This would be of great help. There are up to 60 questions, but you can choose to submit early or jump over questions. Every single answered question is helpful :)
The survey consists of some short text snippets written in Nynorsk and you will be asked to rate the English translations for one of the words per snippet. So if you are able to understand easy texts written in Nynorsk (eg. online news) - by whatever means - you would be able to fill this out. You only need to understand enough of the text to figure out which of the translations are applicable (because words are ambiguous of course), the rest is more about your intuitions in English. If you have never tried to read in Nynorsk (but know other Scandinavian languages), why don't you put your skills to test with this short article for example? The text snippets are not much more difficult than that. More detailed background information and instructions can be found at my homepage: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~stefane/ There you also find the link to start the survey. Thanks for helping out! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2 of 11 09 June 2015 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi deagga, before I go further, does it make any sense for a native Norwegian to do this survey?
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4521 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 3 of 11 09 June 2015 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I need data from both native speakers and learners. And you will be able to indicate if Nynorsk is your hovedmål or not (but I don't really expect much difference between sidemål and hovedmål writers).
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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 4 of 11 09 June 2015 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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The examples and the proposed translations remind me of Google translate on a bad day..
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 5 of 11 09 June 2015 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was really confused by the sentences you provided... Edited by stifa on 09 June 2015 at 8:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4521 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 6 of 11 09 June 2015 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
Could you elaborate? Language use or content? Or were they too ambiguous, ie. would there be need for larger context windows? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 7 of 11 10 June 2015 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I did the survey yesterday, and as Iversen I found that the translations proposed were quite baffling sometimes. It was really Google on a bad day. I found the meaning of the words in the nynorsk texts quite straightforward, but sometimes none of the proposed translations seemed adequate.
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| day1 Groupie Latvia Joined 3892 days ago 93 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English | Message 8 of 11 10 June 2015 at 9:35am | IP Logged | ||
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What do you mean by low-resource languages?
There are quite a lot Norwegian learning resources out there, especially for earlier levels. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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