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| Murdoc Triglot Senior Member Georgia Joined 5036 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes  Speaks: Georgian*, English, Russian | Message 393 of 431 11 November 2012 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
არაფერი. უბრალოდ პირველი ფორმა უფრო ხშირად გამოიყენება.
ბავშვობაში ვუყურებდი და მომწონდა, მაგრამ დიდი ხანი გავიდა მას შემდეგ, კარგად აღარ მახსოვს. მგონი ცუდი არაა. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4948 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 394 of 431 11 November 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tixhiidon, any chances I can buy any e-book from lit.ge , have my credit card accepted
and manage to open the file at either my PC desktop with Windows or my iPad? Learning Georgian is just getting more fun with all the possibilities! I do have a couple of e-books on the classics (both the Georgian classics and the Western classics translated). I have much more for Georgian than for Norwegian, for instance. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5246 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 395 of 431 11 November 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
According to the website you can read the e-books on Windows and Android, but you need to download a special app called იოტა რიდერი to read what you've bought, so I guess (although I'm far from being a technical genius) that means you need either a smartphone or a tablet PC on which you can download apps. It seems the app is not available for Apple devices, so I don't think it will work on your iPad. They accept credit cards. On the site it says "Georgian Credit Cards", but surely any credit card would be OK?? You have to put a certain amount of lari into your account in advance and pay little by little from that, which is not as good as paying book by book, and there's always the risk they can run away with your deposit and live a life of criminal luxury in Monaco, but I'm willing to take the chance. I think I'm definitely going to buy the Nexus 10. It may seem a bit crazy to buy a new tablet PC just to read Georgian literature, but there are so many books on lit.ge that I want to buy and read (you can even buy journals and magazines on there) that it seems too good an opportunity to pass up. Edited by TixhiiDon on 11 November 2012 at 10:52pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5246 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 396 of 431 21 November 2012 at 11:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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So in the end I bought a Nexus 7 as it seems like the Nexus 10 is going to be sold out
here in gadget-mad Japan for months, and I didn't want to wait any longer. My shiny new device arrived today, and in the last hour or so I have managed to set it up, download the იოტა რიდერი app, set up an account with lit.ge, put 20 lari into my account, and buy and download a book by დათო ტურაშვილი called იყო და არა იყო რა, which means "Once Upon a Time". I am pleased not only with my technical skills, but since lit.ge is all in Georgian, with my Georgian reading skills too. So now I have the perfect excuse to go crazy with my credit card in lit.ge. Since most books on there are around 4 or 5 lari, I think I can avoid debtors' prison for the time being. Meanwhile, after complaining to Medea about Contemporary Georgian Fiction and how I wish it had been me on the cover, she suggested, quite logically, that I translate a novel and bring parts of it for us to check and discuss together every Friday. So I pulled out იყო საღამო იყო დილა, figuring it was not too long, not too difficult, and that I had already read most of it, and started translating. My enthusiasm lasted about 4 days, not because it was terribly difficult, but because I translate every day for my job, and I realized that translating more, even literature, even Georgian literature, is not how I want to spend my downtime. So that project was shelved pretty quickly. I've been watching a TV series called ჩემი ცოლის დაქალები on YouTube. It's pretty good - a bit soapy and, well, it has to be said, a bit girly - but easy to understand and there's a channel on YouTube with every episode in HD quality. So I'm covering all bases nicely except writing at the moment. I'll write something in Georgian on here next time. Edited by TixhiiDon on 21 November 2012 at 11:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4948 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 397 of 431 21 November 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tixhiidon and others, have you ever had a look or read positive reviews on Basic Georgian, by Tamar Makharoblidze? (NOT the one by Nana Danelia). I was wondering if it was worth buying it. It's 86 US$, shipping from Germany.
- The book consists of 28 lessons, that's more than twice than Kiziria's, more than Aronson's and Hewitt's and hopefully it's more conversational. - Even so, I wonder if it will still have enough useful content for me at this stage. If it doesn't cover the perfect or the participles (I'm repeating this all the time lol) on a living context, it's useless. Here's a review: Basic Georgian Good luck with the Nexus 7. I've checked the site and there is indeed an app for Windows, so, I don't think I'll need yet another reader. I'll let you know if I allow my card to fly over the mountains of Mtsxeta. They have only e-books, right? They have one book from a Brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho. Maybe there's more from other writers, and of course there are many from English-speaking writers as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5246 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 398 of 431 22 November 2012 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi Expug, I've heard vaguely of Basic Georgian by Tamar Makharoblidze, but I've never
actually seen it or read any reviews. I think the problem for us Georgian learners is that a lot of the study materials we have to choose from are quite low in quality. My advice to you, for what it's worth, would be to go back to Aronson or Lehrbuch der Georgischen Sprache and go through the entire book again. I've been through Aronson 4 or 5 times now and it is more beneficial even fifth time round than many of the other textbooks I've bought. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4948 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 399 of 431 23 November 2012 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've just got my copy of Contemporary Georgian Fiction, in no time! I ordered it this month, day 10, and I chose the slowest shipping method. Now I have to find the Georgian equivalents of the translations. Have you tried it so far, Tixhiidon?
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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5246 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 400 of 431 24 November 2012 at 3:31am | IP Logged | |||||
I haven't looked for any of the originals yet, but I see from your log that you've managed to find a couple, including the one by Lasha Bughadze. I really like this writer. His language is quite simple, and he's very funny and irreverent. I think it's a great place to start your bilingual reading. Much better than all those terrible long excerpts from nineteenth century poetry and novels in ACC! The story by Kartvelishvili in Contemporary Georgian Fiction is also really good. I've only read that and Bughadze's so far, so if you find any stories you particularly like please let me know. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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