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Josquin
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 Message 9 of 26
05 December 2013 at 8:46pm | IP Logged 
I'm in the same situation as jeff_lindqvist: interested in Persian, but busy with other languages at the moment. Maybe, I'll get to it during the second half of 2014, but I can't (or won't) join the TAC with it right now.

Anyway, if a Persian team comes into being, I'll follow your logs with interest!
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 Message 10 of 26
05 December 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged 
My main worry about Pashto is simply the paucity of materials. All grammars out there seem uncomfortably old or incomplete. Dictionaries are slim. Moreover, though there's surely a corpus out there, I'm not sure how accessible it would be to any of us.


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za20
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 Message 11 of 26
06 December 2013 at 1:35pm | IP Logged 
I have read some grammar books on these three languages. It seems to me that Pashto is the most difficult language of these three languages. Because Pashto has a very difficult and complicated grammar, maybe more difficult than Russian Grammar.

The easiest one is Persian Language. It has a simple grammar.

Kurdish is much easier than Pashto but more difficult than Persian.

Edited by za20 on 07 December 2013 at 12:36pm

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lichtrausch
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 Message 12 of 26
06 December 2013 at 8:13pm | IP Logged 
I love Persian and I do something with it on most days, but there are a couple other languages I want to become proficient in before I really devote myself to Persian.
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druckfehler
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 Message 13 of 26
06 December 2013 at 9:54pm | IP Logged 
za20, thanks for the comparison! I know very little about Kurdish and Pashto (so far! ;)), just that resources are scarce and depending on what dialect of Kurdish you want to learn you might have a hard time to find anything...

lichtrausch, it's great to see someone else who is simultaneously interested in Persian, Korean and Mandarin!

Off-topic on this thread, but how about joining the Korean team for TAC 2014? ;)
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lichtrausch
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 Message 14 of 26
07 December 2013 at 3:52am | IP Logged 
druckfehler wrote:

Off-topic on this thread, but how about joining the Korean team for TAC 2014? ;)

I'm pretty much a solo learner so I don't know if TAC is for me. But I'll look into it.
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za20
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 Message 15 of 26
07 December 2013 at 12:31pm | IP Logged 
druckfehler wrote:
thanks for the comparison! I know very little about Kurdish and Pashto (so far! ;)), just that resources are scarce and depending on what dialect of Kurdish you want to learn you might have a hard time to find anything...


It is Kurmanji Dialect on which I have read some grammar books and Kurmanji Dialect uses Latin Alphabet.

Edited by za20 on 07 December 2013 at 12:34pm

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Élan
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 Message 16 of 26
07 December 2013 at 3:54pm | IP Logged 
Kurmanji is really interesting to me. I'd love to follow your log.

I am a total TAC fail, but I'd be game to give it a try again this year if there were an Iranian language family team. I
study Persian (Farsi, but would like to study some Dari this year also.)


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