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| Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6002 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish | Message 9 of 172 30 November 2008 at 7:55am | IP Logged | ||
My mate and I do this with Norwegian. We were at Assimil lesson 30 when we decided to try this L-R thing. He used a book he knows very well and decided after some chapters that he doesn't even need to read the German book first. I read a book I don't know very well. So I have to read it first in German. But it works for me. Once in a while I get confused when the Norwegian translation uses 2 sentences where German has only one, but this is not really a problem. Edited by tja on 30 November 2008 at 8:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6471 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 10 of 172 30 November 2008 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
My problem is that I can't do that "skim through" thing. I can't do such things without doing them properly. If I start with the book, I know I will be going hardcore at it copying everything etc. But I see Pimsleur only as a way of getting some additional vocabulary and exposure to the spoken part. I don't expect to learn much from it, really. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JohnnyR Groupie United Kingdom how-to-learn-any-lan Joined 5638 days ago 47 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 11 of 172 30 November 2008 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very interesting choice of languages, I would assume Norweigian and Swedish to be very close but I speak neither so how close are they really?
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6471 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 12 of 172 01 December 2008 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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They are very close, but parts of the vocabulary is different, and very many words, albeit very similar, will be spelled slightly differently. Pronunciation and melody also differ quite a lot. Also, Norwegian has two written variants of the language, and some of the words of one are identical to Swedish, while some of the other are as well, while between them, they differ. I was asked when I wrote in Norwegian if I wrote in nynorsk (the "other") or if I had some dialect. The truth was that I just didn't know which words were what ;)
There is currently an active thread on this topic somewhere on the forum, by the way. Edited by tricoteuse on 01 December 2008 at 12:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5944 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 13 of 172 01 December 2008 at 6:16am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't wait to read how you tackle Hungarian Assimil. I'm ploughing through the course, albeit very slowly. It's a good course, but you really need to check the dictionary at the back on some lessons. The FSI Hungarian course is also very good, and free.
Best of Luck!!! Edited by DaraghM on 01 December 2008 at 6:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6471 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 14 of 172 01 December 2008 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks! :) I glanced at FSI some 6 months ago and was just scared away by some very long list of greetings... as well as the PDF issue (I hate to read on a screen). Do you use them both at the same time? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5944 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 15 of 172 01 December 2008 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I was for a while, but I've temporarily stopped using the FSI course. I'm now using this time for my Russian. I hate learning off a screen as well, so I printed out whatever pages I needed to study. This meant I could fold them up, carry them in my pocket, and study at lunch, or while I was walking. Edited by DaraghM on 01 December 2008 at 11:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6471 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 16 of 172 06 December 2008 at 8:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll start Hungarian tomorrow after my French exam, and yesterday I printed a small paper on pronunciation. If anything, it made me confused and made me doubt my English pronunciation. I will compare it to the French explanations in my Assimil instead, and hope those give me more self-confidence.
I have been writing a lot on lang-8, so I've gotten started with the Norwegian as well. Two posts so far, and both seemed successful, even though I still haven't really learnt what small words are bokmål or nynorsk. I also wrote a couple of long Russian posts, three I think, and at least one major French one. I was revising some French sociolinguistics today, and realized that I *do* feel much more comfortable speaking French out loud than English. This is somewhat sad. English used to be my forte... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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