lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6893 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian
| Message 25 of 54 30 April 2007 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
If you want something fairly mindboggling, Georgian or Basque would be good options. The grammar is quite challenging and they're both rather minor languages so you can at least take pride in learning something that few others do. ;)
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sergiu Diglot Senior Member Romania freewebs.com/invata_ Joined 6442 days ago 105 posts - 108 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: German
| Message 26 of 54 30 April 2007 at 7:20am | IP Logged |
Fairly ,rather and quite all have the same meaning ,right? :)
So now you're looking for a 5th language,how about Japanese?
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sergiu Diglot Senior Member Romania freewebs.com/invata_ Joined 6442 days ago 105 posts - 108 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: German
| Message 27 of 54 30 April 2007 at 8:12am | IP Logged |
Can somebody tell me where Ardaschir mentioned about his learning methods?
Thanks in advance
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Thuan Triglot Senior Member GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6933 days ago 133 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Vietnamese, German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Romanian, Swedish, Mandarin
| Message 28 of 54 30 April 2007 at 11:19am | IP Logged |
Sounds like a great challenge. I would like to attempt something like that myself. The languages I would take are: literacy in Japanese (Japanese novels are great and it's much more enjoyable to read these in Japanese), intermediate level in Mandarin, Swedish (6WC right now, a language that I would like to keep working on everyday without spending too much time on it), Cambodian and Korean (this is going to be quite a challenge, might take something else).
Right now I'm just studying Japanese and Swedish. Looking forward to your future postings on this project. Good luck!
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Languagelover1 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6432 days ago 63 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 29 of 54 01 May 2007 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
Sergiu, there is an answer to this question I ask in the Alexander Arguelles thread.
Steve
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sergiu Diglot Senior Member Romania freewebs.com/invata_ Joined 6442 days ago 105 posts - 108 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: German
| Message 30 of 54 01 May 2007 at 11:46am | IP Logged |
Thanks ,I enjoyed reading the articles.
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vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6425 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish
| Message 31 of 54 01 May 2007 at 5:35pm | IP Logged |
Notes from the trenches:
German has rather stolen a march on the other languages. Being the impatient type, I've carried on wading through my 'German Made Simple,' assuming that as long as I can get about 90% comprehension of the texts, I can't go too far wrong. Have got almost half way now and should be able to finish the book in a rather rough-and-ready way in three days time, after which I will go through it again and cherry-pick grammatical points to drill. BOOM-SHACK-A-LACK!
Esperanto is trudging along workmanlikely on a lesson a day.
Am ordering Assimil Mandarin and will attempt to diligently follow the prescribed method, so Mandarin is on the back-burner until the Assimil arrives. Visit to Beijing is pencilled in for mid-September (complete with an international foosball tournament to enter!)
Still to look for Hindi materials.
I've plumped for Spanish as a fifth choice - useful rather than especially exotic. Will probably go down the same route as with the German (read; memorise vocab; drill grammar), tho hopefully will progress to unsimplified materials more quickly.
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vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6425 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish
| Message 32 of 54 25 December 2007 at 6:42pm | IP Logged |
Hmmm Unfortunately, I had to put this project on hold after being headhunted for a job (teaching Maths).
Holidays now, so am doing about 6hrs of Spanish a day (starting from scratch) to see how far I can get. Major use of online grammar drills so far; should polish off regular verb forms (including subjunctive) by end of the first week and then be on to the finer points and vocab crunching.
Pronouns of various colours/possessive adjectives etc treated today so much of the some irritating bits have already been dealt with (to a degree).
Edited by vb on 25 December 2007 at 6:50pm
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