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| Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5885 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes  Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese | Message 1 of 2 16 February 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged |
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I have been interested in Slovakia for some time and I decided I want to learn the language. But most of the materials available in English do not assume any knowledge of a Slavic language. The thing is I am Polish and I can read some Slovak texts (history handbooks, literary criticism and Wikipedia) without problem, I can also understand much of what I hear in Slovak radio so it is not that Slovak is entirely foreign to me. There are some Slovak courses in Polish, but they are not followed by audio, so I find them no more useful for speaking practice than Wikipedia.
Now, the question is what would be the most suitable way to learn Slovak for me? I want to gain fluency in speaking, writing and reading more demanding texts. The best thing that comes to my mind is to listen to the radio. But maybe you know some more effective ways? Maybe someone has some experiences with learning a language with radio? Or maybe there is an extraordinary course I don't know of? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5764 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 2 of 2 16 February 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, with the Listening-Reading method, if you can find Slovak audiobooks and corresponding Polish translations in text. (there are a lot on Czech "spoken words" sites, marked with [SK].) If there are a lot Slovak authors with Polish translations, that will be super-good. But anyway, I'm pretty sure that I had seen Sienkiewicz and Lem Stanisław in SK audiobooks.
Search for the famous thread on Listening-Reading (L-R method) for the method. Personally I would suggest learning the pronunciation anywhere (try the famous Pimsleur!), running through a grammar book twice to get the major differences in declension, conjugation and syntax, read some vocabulary lists to get an idea of correspondences in cognate words, before beginning the formal LR process. Edited by minus273 on 16 February 2010 at 2:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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