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| t1234 Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 4136 days ago 38 posts - 83 votes  Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Turkish, Polish | Message 1 of 7 07 January 2014 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Turkish
After a few months of no Turkish I am just going through Teach Yourself Turkish again. My copy is by David Pollard from 1996 (this edition 2003). So far since the beginning of the year I've gone through the first 13 chapters and have 56 unknown words. They are more words that I'm not sure of, since I've only got 2 cards wrong in Anki. However my listening ability is nowhere near as good. My main method of learning languages (especially vocabulary) is a site I wrote for myself (http://readingtool.net/) which is sort of like Lingq or LWT, but supports parallel texts and multi-monitor more easily. I pretty much have put all the TyT, Assimil and Türkçe Okuyorum texts in there and use that. Here are some resources I use (or have used) for Turkish:
Polish So far I've completed Michel Thomas Polish which was actually pretty good. I think that maybe in a month or so I'll listen to it again because I got a bit lost on the last couple of CDs. Afterwards I'll do the Advanced course and see how it goes. I've also been reading through Polish in 4 Weeks and as well as Polnisch Ohne Mühe. Assimil as usual is a bit of struggle because of their scattered explanations of the grammar and they don't give the nominative form of the word in the dialogues, so it's hard to work out what cases apply and so on. P4W is not too bad a coursebook really, a few things could use improvement but usuable. At the moment I'm at chapter 18 in P4W and around Lesson 30 of Assimil. I've restarted both books and am paying more attention to the cases this time around. Most of the singular nouns are fine, but plurals and adjectives I'm not too sure of. Also I'm trying to remember which prepopistions govern which cases and of course remembering vocabulary is a always a problem. Currently in Anki I've 330 words and 97.5% for young words, none of them have been in there long enough to mature. As with Turkish I've put the dialogues for Assimil and P4W into my site (http://readingtool.net/) and am using that to look everything up. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4857 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 2 of 7 07 January 2014 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Powodzenia z polskim! :) If you'd like any help/conversations/whatever, I can help you with pleasure :)
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| t1234 Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 4136 days ago 38 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Turkish, Polish | Message 3 of 7 07 January 2014 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 7 10 January 2014 at 9:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Great intro and links. You seem very advanced in Turkish! I am working from a 1989 version of TY, which is different from the later ones. After that I hope to get into turkish only courses.
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| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5347 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 5 of 7 10 January 2014 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'll be following mainly the Polish part of your log and was wondering what your motivations are for both Polish and Turkish? Why specifically those languages? I'm just curious.
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| t1234 Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 4136 days ago 38 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Turkish, Polish | Message 6 of 7 13 January 2014 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not very advanced at all considering the amount of time I've been working on Turkish. I believe the only thing in common between the books is the title.
I've been to Turkey quite a few times, usually I go every 12-18 months or so and just landed up attempting to learn the language. For Polish I'm not too sure myself really, basically a combination of various things. I'm not really interested in any of the romance languages, I already know a few Germanic ones, there are lots of Polish people in the UK, saw the book Polish in 4 Weeks and decided to just spend a month or so on it. Clearly 4 weeks would never be sufficient so I've made it a 1 year project and will see how it goes. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| t1234 Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 4136 days ago 38 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Turkish, Polish | Message 7 of 7 27 January 2014 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Turkish
I've completed TyT a while back and went back to Assimil. After the 1st 14 lessons is started feeling a bit pointless so I went back to Turkçe Okuyorum and I'm now about halfway through the 2nd book. I never finished the series so the aim for now is to get through all of it. I would guess that the dialogue speed is currently about the same as the final lessons of Assimil and the actual difficulty somewhere around lesson 40. Polish I've finished Polish in 4 Weeks and the first 42 lessons of Assimil. The next step is pronunciation and to work through the exercises and try actually remember all the cases and endings. Generally I find that if I know what all the words in a sentence mean I can understand the sentence. However actually being able to produce the sentence would basically be impossible. I will continue to work through Assimil passively to the end and hope for the best. My copy of the second volume of P4W has arrived but for now I'll leave it alone until I have better understanding of the grammar in volume one. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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