Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 473 of 758 18 October 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
So, the day is sunny again (even though it's almost 5 pm. I managed to finish yesterday's dialogue and read today's dialogue (the third one) completely. Overall I got 4 sentences I couldn't infer completely from context or look words up. I really enjoy this book Continuing Course, wish there were more language textbooks like this for less commonly learned languages. Still, the easier it gets to read, the more worried I become about only being able to recognize the grammatical forms and not to produce them. We'll see. I'm still highly motivated and only get more fascinated about the Georgian language!!
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 474 of 758 19 October 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged |
One more text at the newspaper reader is over and so is one more dialogue at the Continuing Course. I'm happy with my speed at learning. Newspaper is still fairly more complicated than the story which is pretty much contextualized. I'm happy overall, I just love this language! Wish I could study only Georgian and nothing else =D
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zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 475 of 758 19 October 2012 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
Expugnator wrote:
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I feel the same way! But there are just too many other languages I love :(
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 476 of 758 19 October 2012 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
Hehe I love other languages as well, but some of these are way easier, either in terms of the learning process or of the resources available or both, and I just feel like a sort of obligation to learn them. With Georgian, it's indeed like discovering a new world. I'm sure if I ever get to read Georgian easily, I won't be obsessed with "learning", just with actually using the language, and I'll have room for more.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 477 of 758 22 October 2012 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
I've finished today's lesson 28 of the Georgian Newspaper Reader, as well as the 7-page long dialogue at the Continuing Course. Things are going on pretty well so far, I think that when I finish the dialogues I'll be able to learn even more from the prose and poetry texts.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 478 of 758 23 October 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
One more day with all tasks accomplished. I'm tired, to say the truth. All the heat didn't help. Since I'm reading up to 10 pages in Georgian each day (and looking up loads of words I still haven't learned by heart), I feel much less motivated to actively use Georgian for writing or text-chatting than I do with French and Norwegian. There's no real solution because if I start splitting lessons up they will take twice or 3x longer and I'll get fed up with the book sooner than before. Anyway, I think that when I move to authentic material I'll feel more inspired to write. Since I'll have already written about daily life events in French and Norwegian, there's not much left to write in Georgian
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 479 of 758 24 October 2012 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
It's strange how the dialogues at the Continuing Course are much longer than the texts at the Newspaper Reader and they lack translation, yet they seem much easier than the news. They have a context and that helps a lot. Even so, now after 30 lessons of the newspaper reader, with only 10 to go, I feel that I'm getting used to word order in the Georgian news. I'm going to try reading an actual article again, once I'm done with the textbook.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 480 of 758 25 October 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
It was quite hard to read 10 pages in a row. I have to get used. Still having trouble with pluperfect and perfect forms, those are the ones I'm the least familiarized with and the ones I sometimes don't get Google Translator to translate. As for the participles, translate.ge is more efficient in translating them as plain nouns/adjectives.
A poll I saw at Radio Tavisupleba's website which I was able to understand =D
თქვენი აზრით, ახალმა მთავრობამ რომელ სფეროს უნდა მიანიჭოს პრიორიტეტი?
- ადამიანის უფლებები
- ეკონომიკის განვითარება
- რუსეთთან ურთიერთობის მოგვარება
- საქართველოს ინტეგრაცია ევროატლანტიკურ სტრუქტურებში
- სოციალური პრობლემები
- ტერიტორიული მთლიანობის აღდგენა
- მიჭირს პასუხის გაცემა
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