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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5713 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 17 of 66 17 January 2013 at 9:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still sick, but I was worried about forgetting what little I've learned this year. So far I've been learning
mostly Swedish and Finnish. Yesterday, I took Emme's advice in this language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34530&PN=1&TPN=24#423 977">post from the Viking team thread and watched the short film Ett nytt kapitel with Swedish subtitles. I understood more than I expected I would, but I feel like I missed a lot of things too. The film is about Christer and Lena two co-workers whose job is to sort mail. Christer decides he wants to take a month off from work to begin writing a crime novel. Lena is attracted to him and often thinks of little reasons to visit him while he is trying to write. I don't know for sure what her reasons were for coming to visit but it was obvious that they were always excuses to spend more time with him. Watching it with subtitles was a good way for me to find new words such as: ingenstans - anywhere or nowhere (unclear on this one, maybe it depends on context) undersökning - examination, investigation allra - of all som på mest dagliga - everyday There should be more words, but I would have to pause the movie a lot to catch them all and I didn't want to spend all day on a 28 minute film. As for Finnish, I tried to read a Wikipedia article but failed to understand enough to have anything to write about. I'm not surprised or bothered by this, but I needed to write it to be honest. @sans-serif: Kiitos! So "Minulla on nuha" usually means having a runny nose, that's good to know especially since I have a runny nose right now. Interesting that "flunssa" usually means common cold, but that's easy to remember. hyviä öitä Mick Edited by mick33 on 29 June 2016 at 6:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5713 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 18 of 66 17 January 2013 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Mera svenskt ord:
avsnitt - installment, episode, part section frånsett - apart from undantag - exception undanta - to exempt, to except utom - beyond, outside, above, except förutom - apart from förvaltning - administration hämta - to fetch, to collect blanda - to blend, to mix kräva - to demand, to require tigga - to beg bulle - cake, roll, bun (takes en) fixa - to arrange, to fix sändning - broadcast (takes en), shipment, consignment växa - to grow bröllop - wedding, marriage väska - bag (takes en) tyg - material, fabric blåst - wind (takes en) truta - to pout träna - to practise, to train plåta - to photograph, to take a picture haka - chin (takes en) fundera - to think, to ponder,, to meditate darrhänt - shaky hands ihop - togetherihop - together skära - jar, cleave, grate, carve, cut, slice, intersect rakkniv - razor (takes en) Jag tittade Kan du vissla Johanna? idag. Nu ska jag lära mig finska och spanska. adjö så länge Mick Edited by mick33 on 29 June 2016 at 6:43pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5713 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 19 of 66 18 January 2013 at 8:17am | IP Logged | ||
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5713 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 20 of 66 18 January 2013 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I get sick and stay sick for awhile totally forgetting that I was going to continue learning how to complain about being sick in many languages.
I already learned a little a bit of these kinds of things in Finnish with sans-serif's helpful advice, so for this post I will get into Spanish and Swedish. I had to look up the Spanish for "i have a cold" and if I trust my bilingual University of Chicago dictionary and this wordreference page then I think I could say "Estoy resfriado" but I also find words like "catarro", "constipado" or "agripado". "Catarro" is similar to "catarrh" and think means runny nose. Constipado,¿verdad? I just hope I don't confuse this one with the English word "constipation" which means something different. I could learn that word too, but I only learn the words for health problems on an as-needed basis. Getting back on track, I am running into problems finding a way to say "I have a runny nose." in Spanish. ¡Ay de mi! La diglosia al idioma español crispo los nervios a veces. I'll continue this later after I figure out how to say "I have runny nose" in Spanish (and other languages) in the morning. Hasta luego y buenas noches Mick Edited by mick33 on 07 January 2014 at 8:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4123 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 21 of 66 18 January 2013 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just a comment on "constipado": at least where I live, it has a double meaning. It can mean "constipation" (with its English meaning), or it can mean that your nose is plugged up, so it's sort of the opposite of a runny nose. :P
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 22 of 66 18 January 2013 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Parane pian!
well this 'congestion' meaning for constipado makes sense for sure, lol. it's actually a well-known false friend. (in Latin the original meaning was something like crowded, pressed closely together. English and Spanish went in different directions from there) Lakeseayesno, any idea if it's like that anywhere else in the Spanish-speaking world? Is there normally no reason to avoid the word altogether? and how would you indicate which meaning you refer to? is there something like *de la nariz that would work? LOL can you tell I'm fascinated with health topics, including this sort of thing XD Edited by Serpent on 18 January 2013 at 6:25pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 23 of 66 18 January 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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LOOOL now I remembered a popular book about children's speech in Russian. it's not a linguistics book, mostly just an entertaining one, about the creative use of language.
one example was "у Юры в носу понос" - 'Yura has diarrhea in his nose'. Oops I forgot Mick is not learning Russian. the Polish would be like Jura ma biegunkę w nosie.... lol. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5713 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 24 of 66 18 January 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Lakeseayesno: Gracias. Finding out that "constipado" can mean congested or constipated makes more sense.
@Serpent: The Russian phrase is hilarious, and I don't mind at all if I learn a little Russian along with Polish. I assume the Polish phrase means something similar, no? I should have known to research "constipado" more carefully, :)! I did look up how to say "I have a runny nose" in Spanish this morning on the wordreference forums and found the following phrases:
Next language, as I promised in my last post, will be Swedish: In folkets lexikon I get "Jag har en lätt förkylning" which it translates as "I have a bit of a cold. I can't find a good Swedish phrase to correspond to "I have a runny nose" and I'm tired of looking for it. "Vara snorig" might work but I think it just means "To be snot-nosed", besides that "vara snorig" seems like an incomplete thought. For some reason, that reminds that I want to actually listen to more Spanish, Polish and Italian today. Now that I think about it, why didn't I look up "I have a cold" and "I have a runny nose" in Italian yet? Oh well, that will be in my next post. chau Mick 1 person has voted this message useful |
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