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Slovenčina

Slovak – Slovenčina

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OK, I’ve got to take a start in Slovak, there is no point in holding it back (there is the whole Telugu-plus-Faroese-plus-other-languages-at-the-same-time thing, but, anyway…)

Starting with the alphabet & pronunciation:

grapheme IPA
a a
á aː
ä ɛ, æ
b b
c t͡s
č t͡ʃ
d d
ď ɟ
dz d͡z
dž d͡ʒ
e e
é eː
f f
g ɡ
h ɦ
ch x
i ɪ
í iː
j j
k k
l l, l̩
ĺ l̩ː
ľ ʎ
m m
n n
ň ɲ
o ɔ
ó ɔː
ô u̯ɔ
p p
q kv
r r, r̩
ŕ r̩ː
s s
š ʃ, ʂ
t t
ť c, tʲ
u u
ú uː
v v
w v
x ks
y ɪ
ý iː
z z
ž ʒ, ʐ

 

And words are stressed on the first syllable. 🙂

 

Slovenčina

Føroyskt

Føroyskt

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After some time of consideration I decided to take on Føroyskt. I’ll be using the following material:

  • Faroese A Language Course for Beginners Grammar & Textbook (with audio)
  • An Introduction to Modern Faroese
  • Stutt mállæra

as well as the help of a colleague who lived in the Faroe Islands for some time and is willing to somehow keep his Faroese alive. I hope my knowledge of Swedish comes in handy.

Well, that means I’ll be taking Albanian, Telugu and Faroese concurrently. Sounds a lot of fun to me 🙂

 

తెలుగు

తెలుగు

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Although I have already learned most of its alphabet, I’m now oficially starting to study Telugu. This is my first time learning a Dravidian language, so I guess it will take me some time to get used to it. However, I’ve been watching a few Telugu films, especially మాయాబజార్ (Mayabazar), and I am already in love with this language.

I’ll be using a few old books found on archive.org, such as:

as well as youtube videos, especially news channels (such as Tv9) and the website http://www.learningtelugu.org/tutorials/let-us-speak.html. Of course I’ll be watching Telugu films as well,  as Telugu film industry is one of the largest in the world.

 

Shqip

Shqip

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Today I am oficially starting with Albanian. I’ll be using the following material:

Although I have had some contact with Albanian, I’ve never really got to study it. It seems to have a pretty tricky grammar, especially verbs and nouns, but it also has lots of similar vocabulary. I hope to be at a conversational level at least by the end of the year.