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| AlephBey Tetraglot Groupie India Joined 4606 days ago 41 posts - 137 votes  Speaks: English, Hindi*, Urdu, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 9 of 14 31 December 2011 at 6:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Mark, you're nothing short of an Angel! That's just what I needed- I was particularly
curious on how the 'wet' consonants are handled in the few words that I'm familiar with; and also how exactly unstressed syllables are pronounced in Russian, clear like in German, or somewhat reduced like in English. Thanks a ton! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| AlephBey Tetraglot Groupie India Joined 4606 days ago 41 posts - 137 votes Speaks: English, Hindi*, Urdu, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 10 of 14 31 December 2011 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks for the comments, everyone! I apologize for replying so late. I somehow didn't
want to write in this log until I actually hit a tangible milestone- I still haven't. Three lessons short of finishing TY German, 20 lessons into 'Spanish with Ease', and four lessons into 'The New Penguin Russian Course'.
I can recognize with that, I once had a strong urge to learn Persian, but the abject lack of good resources meant that I had to shelve my plans- at least until I know enough German to be able to handle 'Persisch ohne Mühe'. :-) I'd love to converse with you in Hindi; in exchange, you can bear with my pathetic Spanish! \m/
That's a great idea. It's just once out of sheer boredom, I tried playing around with the text-to-speech feature for Hindi- I found that the voice sounds starkly non-native, with several phonemes mixed up and an almost comical-sounding abnormal accent. I've been somewhat vary of using Google Translate for pronunciation ever since. Native speakers have told me that the German pronunciation sounds perfectly natural, but for all other languages I'd much rather consult a native speaker before falling back upon GT as a resource for getting used to the sound of a language.
Thanks! 'Hugo Russian In Three Months' appears quite enticing. Unfortunately, though, none of the myriad Indian net stores I checked seem to have it in stock. I'm thinking of using 'Oxford Take off in Russian' once I'm done with the coursebook I'm currently studying. Hopefully, I'd be lower-intermediate by then. :-) Edit: Weird sentence repaired Edited by AlephBey on 31 December 2011 at 11:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4874 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 11 of 14 31 December 2011 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You mean soft consonants, don't you? Unstressed vowels are reduced, but not very simply. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4874 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 12 of 14 31 December 2011 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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though, none of the myriad Indian net stores I checked seem to have it in stock" Did you want to buy it? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| AlephBey Tetraglot Groupie India Joined 4606 days ago 41 posts - 137 votes Speaks: English, Hindi*, Urdu, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 13 of 14 30 January 2012 at 10:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Dead and gone: My limited French
The first time I had any experience with foreign languages was when I was 12. Encouraged by my father to learn French, I downloaded a little flash card program and had him buy me a dainty little guidebook for tourists (I couldn't have known any better) 'Fifteen Minute French'. I was quite excited when I started learning. I'd sit in front of my screen, imitating the narrator's voice as he dictated lists of related French nouns, 'le renard, la grenouille, l'ours, le chat'. I would write little sentences in French behind my notebooks when I'd be bored at school. Sentences as nondescript as 'Ma mère est belle. Ma professeur est mauvaise. Mon ami est un idiot.' ('My mother is pretty. My teacher is bad(!) My friend is an idiot.') At times I'd even shout away insults in French to classmates I was pissed with (tu es vraiment un chien!). Never mind they couldn't understand. Know foreign language, will flaunt it. Being the fickle-minded young preteen that I was, my interest died off by the time I was 14. My French having stagnated at a roughly intermediate level. After months of being in love with the Spanish language, even going as far as buying a dictionary of slang and idiomatic expressions ('Red Hot Spanish', in case you may want to look it up), I realize my dormant knowledge of French has disappeared for want of use. I can't speak even basic French if I want to, Spanish always creeps in. At times it'd just be grammatical particles, 'y' instead of 'et' or 'los' instead of 'les'. At times I'd replace the most commonplace of words with a cognate from Spanish. At times I'd begin a sentence in French only to end it in Spanish. The bottom line, though, is that I've lost my French. And I don't think I'll be trying to salvage it until I attain fluency in Spanish. Edited by AlephBey on 30 January 2012 at 10:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4529 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 14 10 October 2012 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hey, I cannot send a PM. The website seems to not want to recognize your username and keeps jumbling the Cyrillic when I try to send. However, are you still interested in recording this book? If so, please PM me with your email address and I can send you the course. Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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