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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 609 of 1511 08 April 2013 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
Yesterday and today I have spent some time on languages, but apart from the above video
on Icelandic, I have not done too much:
- completed two more active wave Breton lessons
- completed two Hebrew lessons
- made a "yellow sheet" for Romanian present indicative and subjunctive verb tenses and
read through the revision lesson (no. 28).
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4833 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 610 of 1511 08 April 2013 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
You have a strong Swedish accent when reading out Icelandic, but other than that not bad for the first try, especially if you really didn't listen to the recordings before. Naturally, there were some mistakes, but I only want to mention the ú in "rúta", which you pronounce like a Swedish u. In fact, it should be like a German u. The k in Keflavík is not only aspirated, but also a bit palatalized, by the way.
I think you could do really well if you decided to study Icelandic one day. I was especially impressed by your preaspiration in "ekki". It took me quite a while to get that right. Well, Icelandic pronunciation is a bit tricky, but doable.
Congrats on your job at iTalki!
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5336 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 611 of 1511 08 April 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
Good luck with your job at iTalki and let’s hope you will soon receive great news from Romania.
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5247 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 612 of 1511 08 April 2013 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
Icelandic is cool! I studied it for a short time and I thought the writing system was a
bit confusing at first, but actually it's very logical once you figure it out. I found
the Wikipedia article on Icelandic Orthography very helpful.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 613 of 1511 08 April 2013 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
Josquin wrote:
You have a strong Swedish accent when reading out Icelandic, but other
than that not bad for the first try, especially if you really didn't listen to the
recordings before. Naturally, there were some mistakes, but I only want to mention the
ú in "rúta", which you pronounce like a Swedish u. In fact, it should be like a German
u. The k in Keflavík is not only aspirated, but also a bit palatalized, by the way.
I think you could do really well if you decided to study Icelandic one day. I was
especially impressed by your preaspiration in "ekki". It took me quite a while to get
that right. Well, Icelandic pronunciation is a bit tricky, but doable.
Congrats on your job at iTalki! |
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It is fairly logical that Swedish would be the language giving me interference. I also
noticed the rúta mistake.
You don't want to know how often I heard the word ekki when I tried to ring my
Icelandic friends, hotel owners etc while I was on holiday there...
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 614 of 1511 09 April 2013 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
Today I spent some more time on Hebrew and completed unit 39 of the Routledge course. I
also completed two more Breton active wave lessons and spent a whole lot of time on
Russian, a language that seems to be improving every day still. I am understanding more
and more of this wonderful language, and although I have a long road before me on the
way to "I speak like a native", it is becoming slightly more understandable every day,
although I still have to pick up on many things along the way (often word choice is
important, not grammar).
BR: Bremañ e fellan skrivañ brezhoneg amañ. Desket am eus traoù kozh, traoù
nevez. Tuchantik e vo ret din klask a tud evit gomz ar yezh, pajennoù evit lenn, ur
radio evit selaou, ha kalz traòu c'hoazh. Ezhomm am bo komz end-eeun ar yezh evit
n'ankouaat ket ar yezh, ar komzioù, pep tra!
C'hoant am eus komz gant ar Vretoned. Pelec'h emaint o chom? N'ouzon ket.
Edited by tarvos on 09 April 2013 at 9:11pm
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5155 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 615 of 1511 09 April 2013 at 9:35pm | IP Logged |
Which Hebrew course is that that has so many lessons, tarvos? (Sorry for not browsing back).
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| Golan Bilingual Triglot Newbie Israel Joined 4242 days ago 11 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, Biblical Hebrew*, English Studies: Tigrinya
| Message 616 of 1511 09 April 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged |
Expugnator wrote:
Which Hebrew course is that that has so many lessons, tarvos? (Sorry
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tarvos wrote:
Today I spent some more time on Hebrew and completed unit 39 of the
Routledge course. |
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There it is.
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