Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7164 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 1 of 40 10 December 2013 at 11:26pm | IP Logged |
The team in 2014 for those interested in studying Finnish
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The team's name is Sisu
The team's motto is Tyvestä puuhun noustaan
"Rules"
1) Each member is responsible for his/her own log. It's not important if he/she creates a new log solely for entries pertaining to TAC in a given year or uses an existing one. The point is to study the target language(s) and when helpful or possible cooperate with the rest of the team. This thread may be used to post information relevant for the group or updates on one's progress as noted in the individual log.
2) Each member may dabble in any language as desired or even change the main target language(s) during the year as long as at least one target language is Finnish.
3) Each member may join other teams without losing membership here. One only needs to be studying at least Finnish to be on this team.
Roster for 2014 (as of Jan. 5, '14)
Chris13
Chung
Emily96 (observer)
milesaway
Serpent
Edited by Chung on 13 January 2014 at 1:54am
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6605 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 2 of 40 10 December 2013 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
I'd be happy to participate :D
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milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4339 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language
| Message 3 of 40 11 December 2013 at 7:12am | IP Logged |
This would be great. I really can't join a big team, but a little one for Finnish only
would be feasible. I'm still a beginner, so I doubt I could help anyone with Finnish, I'd
be the recipient of help.
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Chris13 Groupie FinlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4059 days ago 53 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Finnish
| Message 4 of 40 11 December 2013 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
I'd be happy to join :)
However, since you mentioned Skype, it's not really do-able for me due to having a dongle stick for internet, yesterday my internet was non-existent so I couldn't even do my memrise. This is rare but having a bad connection on Skype isn't, so if it's a necessity I guess I can no longer join. If it's not then I'm very happy to join and follow the experiences of everyone here.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6605 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 5 of 40 11 December 2013 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
Oh it's not a necessity! In fact Chung said he's *not* one to lead sessions on Skype though he doesn't mind if someone wants to do that.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7164 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 6 of 40 11 December 2013 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
How comfortable are people other than Serpent and I when it comes to writing an individual sentence in Finnish along the lines of "I see the car in the street" or "That's not a car. It's a truck." with the help of a dictionary and/or explanations from a book or online description of the relevant grammar?
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milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4339 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language
| Message 7 of 40 11 December 2013 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
Um...sadly, I probably would not even be able to write those sentences. As embarrassing
as that is, it's true. For the second, "Se ei ole auto. Se on kuorma-auto." (I had to
google the word for truck)
My current abilities:
-Tell you my name and ask for yours.
-Say where I live.
-My job.
-What languages I know and where I learnt them.
-That I don't understand, and do you speak English?
Yeah...I've got a long way to go. If I'm too much of a beginner, that's fine.
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Tollpatchig Senior Member United States Joined 4015 days ago 161 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Maltese
| Message 8 of 40 12 December 2013 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
How comfortable are people other than Serpent and I when it comes to
writing an individual sentence in Finnish along the lines of "I see the car in the
street" or "That's not a car. It's a truck." with the help of a dictionary and/or
explanations from a book or online description of the relevant grammar? |
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Not very...
I see a car in the street.
Minä katon autoja kadulla.
Is the partitive the same as accusative in German?
That's no a car. It's a truck.
Se ei ole auto. Se on avolaja.
I'm really just guessing here. No clue if this stuff is right. Had to look up truck, to
see, and a pdf of the case endings.
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