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Languages spoken in Georgia
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FDppkaul
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Norfolk Island
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15 April 2011 at 7:18pm | IP Logged

I'm really interested again in the Georgian language (studied it for some months, but never reached a good level on it. I just know the alphabet and some basic phrases, basic verb conjugations, pronouns and so on). As i imagine, the only book that English speakers can use for it is the Dodona Kizira's one. However, this book doesn't has everything i need, because it contains many things that someone doesn't urgently needs to know when learning a language (for example, i still barely know how to ask the age of someone or how to tell my own age!) So, i would like to ask: it's really more worth going deep first into Russian, if you want to have access to Georgian speakers? I say so, because i also study Russian, however i can't speak it either... i have a strong interest in Georgian, but due to the lack of resources and the language's difficulty, i guess it's better to master Russian first...
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ChristopherB
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16 April 2011 at 11:44am | IP Logged

I'm not so sure you need a knowledge of Russian to pursue Georgian. It would probably help, but as far as I know there aren't a great deal of resources in Russian anyway. Most of the resources I'm familiar with (and I've asked about this before) seem to be in German and English. I daresay even just with English you could get pretty good in the language.
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olhazar
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Croatia
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Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian
Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, Modern Hebrew

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17 April 2011 at 2:45pm | IP Logged

mrpootys wrote:

I was planning on traveling to Georgia next year, and was wondering what the major languages are spoken there. I
am planning on doing a study abroad there, but I wanted to also be able to interact with the community. Im not
sure how much English is spoken there. English is my native language, but I speak German and Russian. Im really
looking for firsthand knowledge and not internet figures, as I have found those to be highly misleading in the past.

Hi, it's great that you speak Russian. I speak Russian and I am learning Georgian. Georgian script is beautiful and easy, but you have to put more effort into grammar.

I was in Georgia last summer. You can hear Turkish in Batumi, on the south. Svan dialect of georgian is spoken in the mountain area of Svaneti. I visited Pankisi area on the border of Chechnya where Chechens or Kists live. Some older people there don't speak russian at all.
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17 April 2011 at 2:49pm | IP Logged

FDppkaul wrote:

There is a great grammar bok by professor Hewitt. You can download it here:

http://gruzinskij.ru/uchebniki.html

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