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| t123 Diglot Senior Member South Africa https://github.com/t Joined 5612 days ago 139 posts - 226 votes  Speaks: English*, Afrikaans | Message 25 of 34 09 December 2010 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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A teacher is a onderwyser[es], a pupil is a leerling or student. I suppose onderwyser
comes from unterweisen. Edited by t123 on 09 December 2010 at 4:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 26 of 34 09 December 2010 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Hope this helps Groete Mick Edited by mick33 on 09 December 2010 at 7:58pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5283 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian | Message 27 of 34 10 December 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks once again for the very helpful input guys. ;-) Mick33 is 100% right - I would have understood 'lig' on its own. These diminutive-endings are something that I'll have to watch out for in future. On the whole things are going very well, I'd say. I did some more passive reading of "Infanta" last night, and I really feel like I'm tantalizingly close to a level where I could just read Afrikaans for pure enjoyment and entertainment! Edited by Romanist on 10 December 2010 at 12:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5283 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian | Message 28 of 34 11 December 2010 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Passage 3. Ch 1. Pg 8 (I'm finding it takes too long to re-type the whole text here, so I'm just listing the stuff I couldn't understand at first reading.) uithaal - to fetch out, to take out(?) ("Hy haal darvan uit") toets - to test ("Sy vingers toets die egtheid") bepaal - to determine, to stipulate verhaal - story, account, narrative herken - (??) ("... of sy herken word") elk - every deernis - compassion afgemete - (??) ("... nie so afgemete soos die predikante van haar jong nie.") ontsteld - upset, disconcerted aanskarrel - to search for(?) ("..., haar gedagtes wat skarrel agter die regte woorde aan.") katoen - cotton wielvelling - wheelrim afwissel - to change, to alternate sag - soft omhels - to embrace beaam - (??) ("'Die begin', beaam sy, haar stem sterker.") skep - to scoop(?) ("Haar vingers skep die lang blonde hare ...") behendig - dexterous Edited by Romanist on 11 December 2010 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Syntax Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie South Africa Joined 5096 days ago 28 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 29 of 34 13 December 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi. I'm new and stumbled across this page by chance.
I just thought I should point this out: Herken- recognize elke- every Be careful with some of those skeibare werkwoorde : -"skarrel",instead of "aanskarrel" would be used in most cases. (I can't think of any time were I would use "aanskarrel") -"wissel" is more common than "afwissel" Of course, I could be wrong, but that is the way I speak Sterkte met die leesery! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5283 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian | Message 30 of 34 13 December 2010 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for helping me out, Syntax. Baie dankie! ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5283 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian | Message 31 of 34 16 December 2010 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, it's true what they say folks: you really DO need to be obsessive almost to the point of mental illness in order to sustain the Schliemann method for more than a few days!! Just reading Afrikaans is one thing: I find I can read my chosen text and get the gist right away. By looking up about one word out of every 15-20 words, I can then nail the meaning right down to about 99%. What's more, I find that when I go back to earlier pages and re-read them after a few days, I can instantly remember most of the stuff that I had to look up first time round. So far, so good. But being able to RECITE whole pages verbatim!? Argh! No way! I can't do it! :-0 It's funny, because I get the sense that what I'm doing really IS improving my reading in Afrikaans. But let's be honest here: I'm not even coming close to emulating Schliemann! The guy must have been a real grade-one genius, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5283 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian | Message 32 of 34 06 January 2011 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I feel bad about this. I really did mean to start 2011 by doing this Afrikaans challenge! Sadly, it just hasn't happened. There are no excuses - I know that I have failed miserably here. I just couldn't seem to find the motivation to keep it up, alas :-O CHALLENGE ABORTED 1 person has voted this message useful |
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