johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5356 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 9 of 12 21 July 2010 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
nogoodnik wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
nogoodnik wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
Your profile says you know French...Assimil has a Georgian course with French as the base language.
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But is it a full course? I thought it was just one of those pocket phrasebooks. It would be awesome if I am mistaken and they made a real course... |
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You are correct. I didn't do a search when I looked originally, I just looked on the drop-down list. Thanks for the correction.
Also...Christopher, why do you want to learn Georgian (I'm just curious)? |
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I was afraid of that. I was hoping I was the one who made the mistake. I would be learning Georgian now if Assimil made a with ease course.
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We can always hope...I'd probably learn it eventually if they make one, I think the Georgian alphabet looks cool.
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ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6345 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 10 of 12 21 July 2010 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
Thanks for all the replies so far. I'm aware of all the English-language resources and even the German ones. If there truly are more resources for German (and by the looks things there are) then I can consider myself home and hosed!
johntm93 wrote:
Also...Christopher, why do you want to learn Georgian (I'm just curious)? |
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Well I'm toying with the idea at the moment, but mainly because it's utterly alien to anything else that I know or know of linguistically. The idea of being able to hit a Georgian news site and read everything with ease is extremely enticing (as I dare say it would be to a good many people on these boards). Truly, I would be interested to know how Georgian's difficulty compares to say, Korean or Hungarian but that would probably require another thread.
Basically, I have an enjoyable but time-consuming habit of assembling resources and creating "plans of attack" in my head long before I ever actually get around to learning them. Georgian will be doubly tough, not least because of its inherent linguistic difficulty, but also because the overwhelming majority of resources appear to be very dry, heavily linguistic grammatical treatises, some resources of which appear to have no accompanying audio either. But I'm still sure it can be done!
(Little off-topic, but Dunwoody Press recently published a 900 or so page Georgian->English dictionary which actually lists individual conjugations at separate entries, so for those who know how alien Georgian's verbal system to us lowly English-speakers, such a resource can only be a god-send.)
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johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5356 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 11 of 12 21 July 2010 at 7:43am | IP Logged |
Christopher B wrote:
. The idea of being able to hit a Georgian news site and read everything with ease is extremely enticing |
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Going on any foreign language news site and being able to read everything with ease is extremely enticing :P
Edited by johntm93 on 21 July 2010 at 7:44am
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ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6345 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 12 of 12 21 July 2010 at 7:54am | IP Logged |
Right you are!
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