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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5673 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 25 of 27 19 February 2010 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Sprachprofi and Lumulo for those links, which I have followed - and there is plenty of good stuff for me there.
My total time on Esparanto is 40 hours (I took a couple of days off for my Birthday :-) ). This has included reading more of Alice in Wonderland, but the last seven hours of this time were spent watching the wonderful immersion programme "La Pasporto Al La Tuta Mondo" on You Tube. Some kind person posted a link to this a week or so ago, and it was just the kind of thing I was looking for. It has proven to be very good listening practice. It reminds me a little of the French in Action series that I watched when refreshing my French. The whole thing is in Esperanto, and it starts off very simply, but soon builds up. I have almost (but not quite) finished watching it, and then will make another pass through it over the next couple of weeks. I am 40% of the way towards my 100 hours commitment to "studying" the language. What I can say at this point is that I am starting to feel comfortable with the basics of the language. However, the vocabulary is going to be a bigger challenge than I had hopes. After all, there are about 11000 words in the language - and learning them is just going to be the usual hard slog it is in other languages. To be honest, I am not looking forward to that at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 26 of 27 19 February 2010 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
If there are, I only know a small percentage of them ;-) A lot should be scientific terms or duplicated words for use in literature. Already in the small 4000 words dictionary at http://www.u-matthias.de/vortaro/vortaro.pdf there are several I wouldn't consider worth knowing, such as "napo", rutabaga. In fact, I hadn't encountered this word in English before and I believe my English vocabulary is upwards of 20,000 words. I'd say you can easily spend a week at an Esperanto meeting without exceeding the "facila Esperanto" list that Kontakto publishes. I'd love to talk to you in Esperanto on Skype sometime, to see what your level is like and I'm ready to answer questions or correct you then. Edited by Sprachprofi on 19 February 2010 at 1:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5673 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 27 of 27 26 February 2010 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Sprachprofi, but I am still in the "passive stage" where I am trying to absorb before producing. It will probably be early April before I start speaking and writing. Having said that, it seems that my brain is starting to enter that stage of language learning where it produces spontaneously: phrases pop into my head at random, and I can now splurt out some basic things without thinking.
So, perhaps in a month or two I will feel ready to start posting stuff here in Esperanto, and may even be ready to take up your own kind offer of Skyping. Although, there actually may be a slight delay in my language study. Unexpectedly, I am going into hospital for two weeks starting from Thursday of next week. [Feel free to skip the boring details: It is an experimental procedure to cure the total blindness in one of my eyes and the (slight) blindness in the other eye. I was born rather prematurely, and this affected my sight (in essence, the backs of my eyes didn't develop fully). New research claims to be able to stimulate growth of the cells and give me the sight I never had. So, the world may soon appear very different to me! Fingers crossed :-) Anyway, I am not sure how this will affect my ability to read over the next few weeks, so I may be confined to audio. Thankfully I now have plenty of Esperanto on my MP3 player - and shall listen for an hour a day :-) I will report back on this at the end of March.] 1 person has voted this message useful |
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