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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 25 of 39 11 February 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Although I am not studying Finnish, that looks like a good site. Here is a link: http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/supisuomea/01/index.html And here is a booklet: http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/supisuomea/booklet.pdf Edited by tommus on 11 February 2012 at 1:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 26 of 39 11 February 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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You may as well make the most of such government-sponsored material as I could see it being pulled in the name of austerity.
Depending on your definition of "small" national languages, here are a few more links off the top of my head for learning such languages as hosted or supported on sites affiliated with a government. FINNISH Selkouutiset (news in simplified standard Finnish for immigrants with comprehension exercises) ROMANIAN "Limba care ne uneşte" (Level 1) "Limba care ne uneşte" (Level 2) "Limba care ne uneşte" (Level 3) - (material funded by the UN's Development Program in Moldova and distribution/dissemination organized by the Moldovan government's Department of Interethnic Relations) SAAMIC The Saamic Parliament has published various textbooks for or in Saamic languages but hasn't offered anything online as far as I know. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 27 of 39 11 February 2012 at 9:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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many europeans study humanities instead of more difficult
fields, such as engineering Humanities are not easier. Philosophy is not easier than Physics. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 28 of 39 11 February 2012 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A few Philosophy students enrolled in some Physics classes of ours. Nothing extreme, General Physics in the first course or something similar. We thought it was immensely funny when they found out they couldn't weasel their way out of the questions babbling on, but they had to sit, think and do the maths instead.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 29 of 39 11 February 2012 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
The same would happen the other way round. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 30 of 39 11 February 2012 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
We could weasel our way out of the questions? That would have been a great relief sometimes :) Now, don't get me wrong, but simply put not all fields and disciplines have the same degree of objectivity and verifiability. Those with the lowest ones are a breeding ground for lazy thinkers and snake oil sellers, so it's only natural that these people flourish there more easily, because it is more difficult that they are found out and exposed. This is not exclusive to humanities -- in the sciences camp pretty much anyone rambling about climate change doomsday, or superstrings, supersymmetry or dark energy goes by the same standards. However, I'm afraid that the fact that there's bull everywhere doesn't make bull stop being bull somehow. Is everyone doing Philosophy full of it? Certainly not, but those guys were, and I won't say otherwise -- I've studied enough Philosophy and Physics to tell when someone is just trying to look smart. Edited by mrwarper on 12 February 2012 at 12:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5697 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 31 of 39 11 February 2012 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
But haven't you heard? Quantum gravity is just a social and linguistic construct: Sokal paper 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 32 of 39 11 February 2012 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, it happened at about the same time as the whole Sokal affair. Talk about synchronicity! ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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