Moderators:''', Forum Administrators
księżycowy wrote:I notice that I can have a bit of difficulty differentiating between ཁ and ག.
vijayjohn wrote:བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་བོ་ཡིན་པས།
księżycowy wrote:B-T-what?
vijayjohn wrote:བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་བོ་ཡིན་པས།
So, I have to ask two things:
1) Wtf does that say?
2) How Well do you know Tibetan? It would appear that you know it quite well.
I want to at least get through the two A-level Begegnungen textbooks before attempting something that serious. Which shouldn't take that long, concidering I'm averaging a Kapitel a week.
This hardly means I'm giving up though. In a few months we can start Sorbian. If not sooner. Is that ok?
vijayjohn wrote:Yeah, and it would appear that you know German, Polish, and Japanese quite well.
I only know a few words and phrases, though. I don't know all the rules of the writing system, but I've gotten comfortable with the basic idea, and God I've recognized all the letters since I was a teenager at least.
This probably is less of a problem than you might think. I think my German was probably worse than yours when I started trying to learn Frisian and Platt, or at least Frisian.
(Until of course there are like ten study groups that are all active at the same time).
księżycowy wrote:I'm very facinated to see how the writing system works in relation to the pronunciation, actually.
I just need to boost my confidence in using German is what I'm mostly saying.
Quechua....
vijayjohn wrote:This also depends on the variety of Tibetan. In Lhasa Tibetan, a lot of the consonants are of course not pronounced; this from what I understand is because they indicate the vowel and tone of the syllable rather than which consonants are in it. Ladakhi and Balti are not tonal, so I guess the pronunciation in these languages is more similar to Old Tibetan.
księżycowy wrote:Amdo is much the same too. It's nontonal, and pronounces (at least some of) the prefixes and such.
That's too the whole list, right?
vijayjohn wrote:No. I can't even say for sure I can get everything you're hoping to get done today!
vijayjohn wrote:księżycowy wrote:Amdo is much the same too. It's nontonal, and pronounces (at least some of) the prefixes and such.
Interesting!
księżycowy wrote:vijayjohn wrote:No. I can't even say for sure I can get everything you're hoping to get done today!
Well, at least Tibetan and German should be a breeze, right?
vijayjohn wrote:Yes, because I don't even have to do anything for German. But I'm trying to do Polish first.
księżycowy wrote:Only if we do Sherpa before that!
Return to “Language Logs and Blogs”
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 11 guests