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| Johannes Diglot Groupie Germany adfc-nrw.de/ Joined 5647 days ago 76 posts - 79 votes  Speaks: German*, Latin Studies: Turkish | Message 17 of 32 10 July 2009 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi Onur, thank you for your quick help! Yes, I've got everything you've written. I'm seriously interested in learning Turkish. Within one year I've finished the "Güle güle work and grammar book". But I'm just a beginner. For many years I didn't practice foreign languages. So I need practice and exercise. At the moment I'm to slow for chatting. My native language is German. At school I learned 9 years Latin, 3 years French and 7 years English. But this is 30 years ago. I live in Krefeld nearby Düsseldorf and Cologne. You are my second contact in this forum. I find your posts worth reading and you being a good continuous teacher for me. I'm a "little bit" older than you, but for me that's not so important! Normally I learn alone and meet Fasuyle in our working group every week. I would like to ask you, if I'm not sure in any grammar problem. I would appreciate, dear Onur, if we could work together in this way. If you have any idea, how I can help you, please let me know! Johannes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 18 of 32 11 July 2009 at 2:57am | IP Logged | ||
Hi pohaku, That's an interesting way of studying. It does seem like it could be kind of fun--like you said, a sort of puzzle- solving. Well, I've not studied German, but I'm pretty sure Turkish is going to be alot more difficult than Spanish and Catalan, so I'm gearing up for the long haul. Anyways, I know that I learn much better by listening, so I'm doing very little reading myself, but one day when I learn to speak well enough, maybe I'll do something similar to you :). Good luck with your Turkish, and let me know how your progess goes! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 19 of 32 11 July 2009 at 3:00am | IP Logged | ||
Hi OnurKara, Thanks for the offer. For now I wouldn't say I'm really studying Turkish, but once I start, when I have any questions, maybe you'll be able to help. And if you need help with English, just let me know! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 20 of 32 11 July 2009 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||
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So anyways, here's my status update for Turkish.
I've not done much this week since I've had a pretty busy week. But this weekend I'm going to continue listening to lots of Turkish (I can recognize like 10 words now!) and reading about the grammar. Also this week, I picked up TY Conversational Turkish and Beginner's Turkish. The conversation one looks pretty good as a way to start, and I would be alot more excited about the beginner's one, but it doesn't have any audio. I really really prefer to do a course mostly by listening, so I think I may have to suck it up and shell out the 20$ or so and actually buy it (although I think I would buy the complete course--that includes the beginner's course, no?). Anyways, this coming week what I want to do is listen to Turkish (I need 7 more hours to reach my goal, and it's supposed to be by the 15th) and read about the grammar, and then starting June 16th, I'm going to keep on listening and start the Turkish conversation course and the Turkish Livemocha course. Yay, I'm almost going to start actually learning! The bad news is, I'm not sure that I'll go to Turkey this December, in the end. That's disappointing, because then I'll have less motivation to learn it, but we'll see what happens. For now, I'm very excited about it still. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 21 of 32 12 July 2009 at 1:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Bueno, y ahora una actualización sobre mi español (ya que el log tiene "Spanish" en el nombre!). Por ahora, mis
estudios de español consistirán en tres aspectos. 1. la incorporación del español a mi vida diaria Voy a intentar reemplazar el inglés con el español en algunas facetas de mi vida. Por ejemplo, he empezado a leer las noticias en español y he bajado un podcast en español de la BBC. Además, todas las películas que recibo de Netflix o serán en español o las veré dobladas al español. Quiero engancharme a una serie, pero todavía no he encontrado ninguna que realmente me guste, así que si alguien tiene una sugerencia... (mejor si es de risa y de Colombia, México o Costa Rica). De hecho, hay dos series españolas que me gustan (La tira y Qué vida más triste), pero el problema es que prefiero adquirir uno de los acentos latinoamericanos. 2. la pronunciación Ahora voy a subir una muestra de mi acento en español para que la gente pueda comentar sobre mi acento. De hecho, hace media hora intenté subirla pero no funcionó, no sé por qué, así que voy a intentarlo más tarde. Hice muchas grabaciones en Livemocha, pero el problema es que me parece que nadie me quiso corregir para no herir mis sentimientos! También, voy a escuchar mucho español (sobre todo de Costa Rica, Colombia y México, los países que tienen los acentos que quiero--realmente quiero hablar con un acento tico, pero es que no se encuentra mucho de Costa Rica). Y voy a estudiar el libro de fonética y fonología hispánicas que tengo y hacer los ejercicios. Pero como ven, todavía no he ideado ningún plan concreto. 3. También voy a ayudar a mi madre a aprender español. Creo que éste será el aspecto más divertido! Hace muchos años que mi mamá estudia español, pero todavía no lo entiende y tiene problemas para hablarlo. Voy a hablar con ella en español a veces, y además ella ha bajado algunos podcasts en español. Aparte de eso, no sé qué más hará. Por cierto, si encuentran algún error en mi español, por favor, corríjanme 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 22 of 32 12 July 2009 at 3:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Acabo de subir una grabación de mi acento en español en el foro de Practical Self-Study Questions, así que si
quieren escuchar y evaluar mi acento, pues allí está! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 23 of 32 14 July 2009 at 2:32am | IP Logged | ||
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En cuanto a mi acento en español, parece que necesito practicar más mi prosodia/entonación. Mi plan para
mejorar: -mañana voy a sacar el libro "Manual de entonación española" de Navarro Tomás; ya veré que hacer con ese libro cuando vea cómo está estructurado -voy a escuchar español activamente al menos 30 minutos al día (al menos 15 min. de español tico) -no sé, a lo mejor intentaré hacer "shadowing" Tengo un problema: decidí que quiero hablar con un acento costarricense, pero apenas existen recursos para aprenderlo! No sé si cambiaré al acento colombiano (o uno de los acentos de Colombia) o que. Anyways, I'm asking anybody out there for some advice: 1. any ideas on how I could get access to enough audio in Costa Rican Spanish to learn it 2. how does one go about improving prosody, intonation, etc. 3. should I just suck it up and change to a more common accent as my goal? Edited by anamsc on 14 July 2009 at 3:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6602 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 24 of 32 15 July 2009 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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hola anamsc, qué tal todo? espero que bien. Unfortunately I don't know how you'd go about getting Costa Rican sources or anything like that, it sounds a good plan though so keep us updated on how it goes or if you manage to find any!
As for Turkish, which do you think is better: the TY Beginner's Turkish, Conversational Turkish or regular TY Turkish? I know you've not used them yet probably but I'd be interested to know, as as you know I just have the regular TY one! Y me gustaría saber cómo has podido ver las dos series esas? Es que yo también quiero hacer lo mismo que tú y quiero ver más series y incorporar el español en mi vida (has ido a www.telecinco.es ? hay un montón de programas como series y tal en este enlace!) I'm enjoying reading your posts, keep up the good work ;) :) Dizzy 1 person has voted this message useful |
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