Tea With Tarvos - Tarvos' Log 2019
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 11:43 am
It's just a continuation of the old one and we all know how that one worked. I post general updates in English and specific updates in certain languages related to the topic I'm discussing.
I study (or have studied) pretty much every language ever except a few major ones like Japanese, Arabic(s) and Hindi so it doesn't really matter what language you write in here. Ok, I don't understand Georgian or Armenian so maybe lay off the really obscure languages but I'll do my best to figure out everything else.
Don't be shy. I want this log to be pretty interactive - I think pretty much all old HTLAL members read my old log and know what it was like and what it's about. I think I'm a pretty accomplished polyglot at this point so you can ask me for advice and tips in here if you want to.
About my actual methodology - it's laid out context-wise and goes by examples, but you should be able to find everything in my old log and when there's something new I'll copy and paste it here.
I think that's about it. Except that I haven't mentioned which languages I study, but... there's so many.
Let's just say the following:
I speak Dutch and English natively
I'm an experienced speaker of Russian, French, Swedish and German (I can read pretty much everything in these languages)
I'm quite advanced at Romanian
I also can speak Norwegian (if you allow me a few Swedish influences), Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese and some Greek. I've had longer conversations on complex topics in all of these and in all of them except Mandarin I can also write very well.
I have had basic interactions in Hebrew, Esperanto, Korean, Breton, Icelandic, Finnish and Czech.
I've also studied Latin, Danish and Afrikaans. I can't speak any of these. But I can read the latter two and I have grammatical insight into Latin.
I don't know what my levels are exactly, just that I can converse to some extent in all of them.
There you go.
I study (or have studied) pretty much every language ever except a few major ones like Japanese, Arabic(s) and Hindi so it doesn't really matter what language you write in here. Ok, I don't understand Georgian or Armenian so maybe lay off the really obscure languages but I'll do my best to figure out everything else.
Don't be shy. I want this log to be pretty interactive - I think pretty much all old HTLAL members read my old log and know what it was like and what it's about. I think I'm a pretty accomplished polyglot at this point so you can ask me for advice and tips in here if you want to.
About my actual methodology - it's laid out context-wise and goes by examples, but you should be able to find everything in my old log and when there's something new I'll copy and paste it here.
I think that's about it. Except that I haven't mentioned which languages I study, but... there's so many.
Let's just say the following:
I speak Dutch and English natively
I'm an experienced speaker of Russian, French, Swedish and German (I can read pretty much everything in these languages)
I'm quite advanced at Romanian
I also can speak Norwegian (if you allow me a few Swedish influences), Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese and some Greek. I've had longer conversations on complex topics in all of these and in all of them except Mandarin I can also write very well.
I have had basic interactions in Hebrew, Esperanto, Korean, Breton, Icelandic, Finnish and Czech.
I've also studied Latin, Danish and Afrikaans. I can't speak any of these. But I can read the latter two and I have grammatical insight into Latin.
I don't know what my levels are exactly, just that I can converse to some extent in all of them.
There you go.