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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4969 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 41 of 426 16 January 2012 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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zecchino, are you using book2? How helpful is it? I know that some translations sound awkward, because words and sentences are chosen so that specific grammatical features are shown (gender, for instance, which Georgian lacks).
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5061 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 42 of 426 16 January 2012 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I haven't used it enough for Georgian yet to notice things like that, but it is kind of strange how it is the
same for every language. It is made by German people ( I think) and it's not adjusted for culture, so you get like three chapters telling you how to order a cognac in Arabic. And you also encounter the problem you mentioned about certain grammatical things not existing, etc. But other than that I think it is great. For example, it is a very good way to learn sentence structure and vocabulary. I use it for Hebrew which I have been studying for quite a while now, and I still learn new (and very useful) things from it. Also, for many languages they have two people talking in different dialects which is good if you are trying to learn a certain accent/dialect, or if you just want to get used to hearing more than one form of the language. Although, this doesn't really apply to Georgian because I don't think there is that much regional variation or anything like that. Edited by zecchino1991 on 16 January 2012 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4969 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 43 of 426 16 January 2012 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah I see. I'm planning on doing one lesson a day when I have more free time, like today. I still haven't made up my mind which book to (re)start with, but it's quite likely to be Hewitt's. I still regret not having a Georgian book with shorter lessons in English.
Speaking of which, I haven't been able to start my log yet because I can't add another language to my profile, either studies or speaks, so I can post in languages other than Portuguese. I don't know if Tixhiidon would enjoy that because he didn't mention it on his log, so I'm asking you first: have you been using songs' lyrics for learning? I find it very motivating. I feel quite happy when I can understand the title of a song, such as თეთრი ღამე from ცისფერი ტრიო, and I able to explain to someone else it has nothing to do with a Tetris Game! It would be really nice to have some songs translated (don't know if the forum rules allow us to do so, though). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5061 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 44 of 426 16 January 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm... That's weird how you can't add a language. Afraid I can't help you with that though. Have you asked a
moderator? And I love using song lyrics to learn. That is in large part how I learned a couple of my languges! I haven't done it much for Georgian yet though. As you can see on the previous page (or maybe this page..) someone translated a short part of a song for me. But that's about it, since I haven't been able to find the lyrics to many Georgian songs that I like... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4933 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 45 of 426 16 January 2012 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | ||
What kind of music are you interested in? R. == Edited by hrhenry on 16 January 2012 at 9:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4969 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 46 of 426 17 January 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
So, after browsing through the forum a bit, I've started this log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30846&PN=1 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5061 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 47 of 426 17 January 2012 at 6:05am | IP Logged | ||
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@hrhenry: Right now I'd be open to any kind of suggestions really. I like to find a wide variety of things when I
try to find language material. @Expugnator: Look forward to reading your log! So today I was doing some book2 and I have a question. So one of the sentences is "Madrid and Berlin are also capital cities," and the Georgian translation says Madridi da Berlinic dedakalakebia." But on the audio one person says "arian" instead of "-a," and the other person says it as it is written. So are both ways ok? It seems strange to me to use "-a" becuase it is talking about something plural... Also the next one says "Dedakalakebi didi da xmauriania." I know that when you put a number before things you treat them as if they are singular, but how do these sentences I gave work exactly? Other than this, I'm going to do gakvetili merve ("Bankshi") of Beginner's Georgian and review gakvetili meshvide. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5267 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 48 of 426 17 January 2012 at 9:05am | IP Logged | ||
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[QUOTE=zecchino1991] So today I was doing some book2 and I have a question. So one of the sentences is "Madrid and Berlin are also capital cities," and the Georgian translation says Madridi da Berlinic dedakalakebia." But on the audio one person says "arian" instead of "-a," and the other person says it as it is written. So are both ways ok? It seems strange to me to use "-a" becuase it is talking about something plural... Also the next one says "Dedakalakebi didi da xmauriania." I know that when you put a number before things you treat them as if they are singular, but how do these sentences I gave work exactly? [QUOTE]
As for the first part of your question, only animate nouns (without counters) use the plural form of the verb, and since "capital city" is inanimate, -a, and not arian, is correct. The next one is correct as it's written, and means "Capital cities are big and noisy". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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