2018 blog - księżyc

[vijayjohn]

I thought there was a small chance you were writing in Chamorro or some other Austronesian language.

Nobody wants to play them (except me).

Nonsense! I want to play them, too! (I just haven't gotten around to it yet because work).

[księżycowy]

So, I just recently (as in yesterday) got a copy of the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, so I'm going to try to work that into my Japanese studies. I still intend (at the moment at least, we'll see how it goes) to use the MnN kanji supplements to learn the kanji used in that book, but as Karavinka rightfully points out it's never too early to start learning kanji. My goal is perhaps a steep one, but I like to be literate in the jouyou kanji by the end of next year.

I'll have to figure out the pace and such, but I'll start adding in the kanji from the Kodansha book as I go through MnN. I'll also add in the example kanji words they give in the book, and perhaps even sentences that use them (which I'll have to find from elsewhere).

[aaakknu]

Nonsense! I want to play them, too! (I just haven't gotten around to it yet because work).

Then let's play!
Atalarikt plays with me now. Join us.

[księżycowy]

Also, where as I do feel that the class is adequate and paced well for the work load I have at the moment, I can't help by feel I need to dig a bit deeper into Northern Iroquoian languages. I'm contemplating adding another to the roster.

[vijayjohn]

Nonsense! I want to play them, too! (I just haven't gotten around to it yet because work).

Then let's play!
Atalarikt plays with me now. Join us.

I did!

[księżycowy]

Thanks for spamming up my thread, by the way.

[aaakknu]

Sorry.

[księżycowy]

Eh, I don't care. I just thought it was a bit funny. You guys talking about Tagalog in my thread here.

[dEhiN]

Meh, we all know UniLang's tagline should be "UniLang: where you can talk about anything in any (general) thread, and we don't care".

[księżycowy]

I just realized that I forgot to change the dates on my last update. Oops.

Goals For 02/11 Through 02/17

Hebrew

• Translate and Parse Ex 3:8-14
• Binyanim: qal affix (strong verb)

Irish

• Complete Lessons 13 & 14 in Teach Yourself Irish by Dillon & Ó Cróinín
• Pimsleur Irish Lesson 2 [optional]

Japanese

• Review Lesson 6 in「みんなの日本語初級第２版本冊」by 3A
• Translate 「桜」by Ask Publishing

I've also keep up pretty aggressively with Anki, which has taken up a lot of my study time after work, so I'll have to adjust from here. I might cut back on the words I review. Idk.
I have this week off, so I'll experiment around and see what I can do to streamline things.

[księżycowy]

Goals For 02/18 Through 02/24

Hebrew

• Translate and Parse Ex 3:8-14
• Binyanim: qal prefix (strong verb)

Irish

• Complete Lessons 13 & 14 in Teach Yourself Irish by Dillon & Ó Cróinín

Japanese

• Review Lesson 6 in「みんなの日本語初級第２版本冊」by 3A

For the time being, I've decided to drop Modern Hebrew. I will return to it, but at the moment I need the time and energy I would use to study it to focus on the final leg* of my Biblical Hebrew studies (and other languages too ).

*Of course it's not the final leg of my Biblical Hebrew studies, but it's the final sections of my textbook.

[księżycowy]

In other news, I just I got my German textbook yesterday. And I'm in love!


Must resist......Must resist......must......resist.......Ach, Scheiße! Ich muss!

[kevin]

Viel Spaß.

Beidh teanga eile againn go luath le labhairt le chéile!

[księżycowy]

So, I'm going to add Arrernte back into the mix. For now I'll just slowly go through the pronunciation sections of the Learner's Guide, using the audio as heavily as possible.

[księżycowy]

In other news, I just I got my German textbook yesterday. And I'm in love!


Must resist......Must resist......must......resist.......Ach, Scheiße! Ich muss!

An interesting side note (which I'm sure is common enough in German textbooks) is that the text does distinguish between the three main variations of Standard German, though I get the impression it mostly teaches the Standard German of Germany. Either way, it'll be interesting to see how much the text does give of the other standards.

[księżycowy]

Alright, it's update time. And due to various matters (some dealing with languages and others with my degree) I didn't get a lot done. But I did keep up with Anki as best as I could. I also started lesson 13 in my Irish textbook, but I wouldn't say I completed it. So......

Goals For 02/25 Through 03/03

Hebrew

• Translate and Parse Ex 3:8-14
• Binyanim: qal prefix (strong verb)

Irish

• Complete Lessons 13 & 14 in Teach Yourself Irish by Dillon & Ó Cróinín

Japanese

• Review Lesson 6 in「みんなの日本語初級第２版本冊」by 3A

I've been meaning to post that story I was translating from Japanese a week or two ago, but keep forgetting.

[הענט]

Irish is so beautiful, but how can somebody learn a language where an bhfuil is pronounced n?

[księżycowy]

I can't think of any Irish dialect (including CO) where <an bhfuil> pronounced simply as /n/.....
It's /ə wil/ (well, in Munster, I can't speak to any other dialects).

[linguoboy]

Irish is so beautiful, but how can somebody learn a language where an bhfuil is pronounced n?

Cad é an seafóid seo?

[הענט]

Oh. Maybe the speaker simply didn't pronounce the word at all.

An bhfuil carr aici? - ( n kárake?)
An bhfuil carr agat? (nwil káret?)

It's very subtle in the latter example, but I didn't hear anything resembling wil in the former.