Register  Login  Active Topics  Maps  

Iversen’s Multiconfused Log (see p.1!)

  Tags: Multilingual
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log Post Reply
3959 messages over 495 pages: << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 265 ... 494 495 Next >>


Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
berejst.dk
Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 2113 of 3959
28 October 2010 at 12:48am | IP Logged 
BA I: Saya telah membaca dan disalin dan diterjemahkan satu halaman di brosur wisata saya dari Singapura. Saya pikir awalnya bahwa orang-orang di Singapura berbahasa Bahasa Melayu, tapi kata-kata dari brosur ini adalah kebanyakan dalam kamus Bahasa Indonesia. Namun saya telah menemukan sesatu pengecualian: "julukan" hanya ada dalam kamus Melayu.

I have spent more than an hout reading, copying and translating just ONE page in my Bahasa tourist brochure from Singapore (which I also have in the English version). Before my recent trip there I thought that Singaporeans spoke the Malay version of Bahasa - but all the unknown words - with one exception - are found in my Indonesian dictionary rather than the Malyan one. The exception is "julukan" (nickname).

Now some may ask: how can one single page take so long? And in Bahasa, which reputedly is extraordinarily easy to learn? Well, there is extensive reading and intensive reading. In the extensive version you just go for the meaning, and that would take much less time. Intensive reading (with copying and making a hyperliteral translation) must be slow because its purpose is to suck every shred of information out of a text passage, ie. learn all words and internalise all contructions. For instance I search for roots of all words because learning the roots is the key to learning this language (or rather these languages, because Malayan and Indonesian seem to be roughly as different as Danish and Norwegian).

RU: Я также пришел к изучаются две страницы в моей книге о русской истории в том же способом - а именно те страницы, где Иван III покоряет Новгород и отменит республики.

I also found time to do a couple of pages from my Russian history book - sadly the pages where Ivan III forces Novgorod to abolish its republican governmental system.




Edited by Iversen on 28 October 2010 at 12:52am

1 person has voted this message useful





Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
berejst.dk
Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 2114 of 3959
31 October 2010 at 3:31pm | IP Logged 
BA I: Saya mengunjungi ibu saya akhir pekan ini dan aku membawa panduan bahasa dan kamus untuk bahasa Indonesia. Saya telah membuat daftar kata dari 200 kata dari buku. Saya juga menemukan sekrup jatuh dari kursi (tetapi sementara itu, ia membeli kursi kedua, jadi sekarang dia memiliki dua). Dan saya menekan FN + F3 dan menghasilkan gambar di layar komputernya. Sangat menyenangkan untuk melakukan beberapa baik.

I have visited my mother in this weekend. I brought an Indonesian language guide and a dictionary and made a wordlist with around 200 words. But I also found a screw from her armchair and now it functions again (but in the meantime she had bought a new chair so now she has one too much). And I pressed FN F3 on her minicomputer so that the picture returned to her large secondary screen. It fun to make something useful. Especially if it can be done that easily.

As a matter of fact my personal mixture of Indonesian and Malaysian Bahasa is moving reasonably fast ahead. I tried to listen to some TV from Indonesia through the internet last week, and no, I didn't understand what they said. But I could catch the words, and that's a good first step. It shows that the pronunciation I use inside my head must have some resemblance with one or both of the two Bahasas. The big problem remains to separate them - I suppose that a person from the Orient who was given a mixed stack of books in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål would face the same problems in separating those two - especially without oral input.


Edited by Iversen on 01 November 2010 at 2:16pm

1 person has voted this message useful





Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
berejst.dk
Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 2115 of 3959
01 November 2010 at 2:51pm | IP Logged 
AF: Ek het nie 'n Afrikaanse video gemaak nie, en een van die vernaamste redes is dat ek nie regtig weet hoe dit uit te spreek (dit is egter net een van my tekortkominge in hierdie taal!). Ek het lankal opgegee het probeer om iets TV op Afrikaans te vind, en om iets te vind om te luister het ek die lys van skakels nagegaan op openlanguages.net, en daar is 'n lys van radiostations in Afrikaans soos "Radio Sonder Grense" met 'n versameling van podcasts. Podcasts is beter as live radio, want jy kan stop hulle en luister 'n paar keer. Die eerste verrassing was die uitspraak van WWW: /vir vir vir/.

One of the languages in which I haven't made videos so far is Afrikaans, and one of the very good reasons for this calamity is that I simply don't know how to pronounce it correctly. So I really need to listen to some genuine speech, and that can be a problem. I have more or less given up the search for live Web TV in Afrikaans, but now I went through the links at openlanguages.net, and there I found a reference to "Radio without borders" which has a sizeable collection of podcasts. The themes are not all equally exciting, but if that's what I can get then it is still better than having no speech samples at all.    


Edited by Iversen on 02 November 2010 at 7:33pm

1 person has voted this message useful





Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
berejst.dk
Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 2116 of 3959
02 November 2010 at 7:29pm | IP Logged 
AF: Reg nou luister ek vir die derde keer na een van die podcast van die radiostasie die ek het genoem gister - die oor Sterre en Planete (naby die einde van die lys). En nou kan ek verstaan die meeste van hulle. Daar is een paar diftonge daar wat herinner my aan Suid-Duitse dialekte: grourtste, teleskuorp, planeeiorte, amateeeurs, erstelliercht, Canuorpes (=Canopus)

Volgens hierdie podcast Mr. Branson het belowe toerismtoere te maak na die ruimte binne 18 maande. Maar vir hierdie tel nie op my nie - dit sal duur wees, en ek verkies reis op hierdie planeet....

--

Right now I'm listening for the third time to a podcast about stars and planets from the Afrikaans radiostation I mentioned yesterday. Mr. Branson is quoted for a plan to send tourists into space within 18 months, - but don't count on me, mr. Branson. It will be too expensive, and I prefer to travel on the surface of this planet.


Edited by Iversen on 02 November 2010 at 7:32pm

1 person has voted this message useful



mick33
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5674 days ago

1335 posts - 1632 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Finnish
Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 2117 of 3959
02 November 2010 at 10:47pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
AF: Reg nou luister ek vir die derde keer na een van die podcast van die radiostasie die ek het genoem gister - die oor Sterre en Planete (naby die einde van die lys). En nou kan ek verstaan die meeste van hulle. Daar is een paar diftonge daar wat herinner my aan Suid-Duitse dialekte: grourtste, teleskuorp, planeeiorte, amateeeurs, erstelliercht, Canuorpes (=Canopus)
Ek het nooit duitse dialekte gehoor en ek weet net 'n bietjie duits so ek was verbaas om 'n artikel oor die invloed van platduits aan afrikaans te vind. Ek het nie die platduits invloed opgelet nie, maar dit is betekennisvol. Die artikel is 'n engels vertaling van 'n vroeër afrikaans artikel maar ek kan nie die oorspronklik vind nie. Miskien is daar ook soms platduits invloed aan afrikaans uitspreek, sedert die diftonge is verskillend klanke as nederlands.

Edited by mick33 on 02 November 2010 at 10:57pm

1 person has voted this message useful





Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
berejst.dk
Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 2118 of 3959
03 November 2010 at 1:46am | IP Logged 
Ek het my nie uitgespreek presies nie. Met "suid-duitse" dialekte het ek nie verwys na die lae duits (platt), maar na switserduits en an dialekte gepraat in die suidelike deel van Duitsland (soos Allgau). In hierdie dialekte is diftongering 'n baie prominente eienskap. Eintlik geld dit ook vir laer-engadins en ander raetoromanse dialekte. 't is moeilik om te sê of daar is 'n invloed van platt op afrikaans, omdat platt is so naby aan die nederlandse taal wat die basis is vir Afrikaans.



Edited by Iversen on 03 November 2010 at 1:55am

1 person has voted this message useful



Magnus13
Triglot
Newbie
United States
mybestwaytolearnspan
Joined 4891 days ago

9 posts - 9 votes
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese
Studies: Mandarin, Korean

 
 Message 2119 of 3959
06 November 2010 at 11:30pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:

Now some may ask: how can one single page take so long? And in Bahasa, which reputedly
is extraordinarily easy to learn? Well, there is extensive reading and intensive
reading. In the extensive version you just go for the meaning, and that would take much
less time. Intensive reading (with copying and making a hyperliteral translation) must
be slow because its purpose is to suck every shred of information out of a text
passage, ie. learn all words and internalise all contructions. For instance I search
for roots of all words because learning the roots is the key to learning this language
(or rather these languages, because Malayan and Indonesian seem to be roughly as
different as Danish and Norwegian).


Hello,

    I am new to this forum and I was wondering if you could elaborate on extensive and
intensive study. Assuming that intensive comes first, when is one ready to move on to
extensive study? And, when one does move on, would one still study intensively? What
are the benefits and drawbacks of each? I understand that there are no rules that are
set in stone, but I would like to know what is optimal in your opinion.

Sorry For All the Questions,
Thank You
1 person has voted this message useful





Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
berejst.dk
Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 2120 of 3959
07 November 2010 at 11:02pm | IP Logged 
I have written about the distinction between intensive and extensive reading before, for instance in my Guide to language learning, part 1 message 6. But if you cut it down to the essentials then an activity is intensive if I study all the details, and it is extensive if I just plow ahead with as little concern for details as possible.

Extensive activities: If I sit down in a comfy chair with a book or magazine I will probably only look up a word or expression if a whole passage is incomprehensible without it. Or I will speak or write knowing fully well that I make errors. But trying to speak or write 100 % correctly would probably block me, and then I would lose the important thing in these exercises, namely the constant drive forwards.

Intensive activities: I often sit down and copy a passage in some language by hand, in some cases I even make a hyperliteral translation (one which stick to the structures of the target languages rather than the language it is supposed to represent). And then I make sure I know and understand the meaning of all words and contructions, all case markers and other endings and the syntactical structure of the phrases. And the unknown words goes into wordlists as an alternative to dictionaries.

This kind detailed study is slow, but gives you a lot of knowledge about a language. However knowledge isn't enough to make a language active, and therefore the extensive methods are also essential - but probably more when you are past the beginner stage.

I hope that is enough explanation.



1 person has voted this message useful



This discussion contains 3959 messages over 495 pages: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495  Next >>


Post ReplyPost New Topic Printable version Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page was generated in 0.5313 seconds.


DHTML Menu By Milonic JavaScript
Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved
No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization.