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| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4364 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 17 of 24 27 September 2013 at 7:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I've never had any aspirations to learn the entire Germanic family, despite my language choices thus far, but I have thought about acquiring a more superficial comparative and reading knowledge of the ones I'm not already familiar with.
What I was planning on using are books like EuroComGerm and possibly some comparative grammars and other more technical resources. Maybe you could benefit from those too, Henkkies? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4633 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 18 of 24 27 September 2013 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Henkkles:
You are obviously familiar with the work of Professor Arguelles, and I've been revisiting some of his videos. I was struck particularly by this one (in the "Accent Formation" series), and its possible relevance to your project: Accent Formation in Foreign Languages Part 3: Analysis in which he talks a lot about how he went about learning the Germanic family of languages, in different "waves" as he describes it. Edited by montmorency on 27 September 2013 at 2:23pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4633 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 19 of 24 27 September 2013 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just re-read your first post, and I think I'd missed that fact that you were in the early
stages of German prior to a trip. How long do you have before that? Anyway, I'd definitely suggest trying either or both of Michel Thomas and "You Speak German" before you go, if you have time. (both only audio / speech-based). And having listened rather more carefully than before to the Prof's words about shadowing, I'd definitely say give that a go as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4058 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 20 of 24 29 September 2013 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I will be flying to Germany tenth of October for an extended weekend.
I will follow the advice. Indeed, we all have something to learn from professor. Now I must fly, I'll start keeping a (more or less) weekly log starting tomorrow. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4058 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 21 of 24 30 September 2013 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hate to double post but I would like to move the discussion towards my project (if there is anything anyone wants to add) towards the thread "Project Germania" in the learning logs forum, and this can serve its original purpose of being discussion about learning a branch of languages.
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| calduche Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Austria Joined 4921 days ago 9 posts - 16 votes Speaks: French*, English*, GermanC2, Dutch Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 22 of 24 04 October 2013 at 2:42am | IP Logged | ||
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As a fellow Germanic languages enthusiast I wish you the best of luck and all the fun and pleasure in the world for your journey alongside German, Icelandic, Afrikaans and the rest of the family.
But have you intentionally left out one language (to my eyes one of the most interesting of the Germanic family): Yiddish? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cpnlsn88 Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4842 days ago 63 posts - 112 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Spanish, Esperanto, Latin | Message 23 of 24 06 October 2013 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes this is an interesting project.
I would like to learn a few languages from the Germanic language but not necessarily to a very high level. In part am interested in languages close to English and German including 'old forms' of the languages (old high German, middle high German, gothic, middle and old English) again not to a high level. Of modern languages have interest in Dutch, Frisian, Plattdeutsch, Afrikaans. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4058 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 24 06 October 2013 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | ||
I haven't really looked into it because of the fact that I don't really know yet if I want to take the time that I would probably need for it. I guess my collection is incomplete if I leave it out but I really don't know anything about it and as it's been called a dialect I left it out to avoid controversy. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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