Tea with Tarvos - Linguavaganza (ES, EUS, FIN and many more)! 2020s log

[cjareck]

Congratulations on your graduation!
What concerns Czech - the language sounds funny for Polish native speakers. Like a parody of our own language. Probably Czechs find Polish the same way

[tarvos]

I've been doing a LOT of Polish lately, and also a lot of Finnish. but mostly I'm attending the Women in Language online conference, which is Loads of Fun so for my gal pals - join us next year! it's inclusive too, which tickles my bits in all the right places.

Best talk - Eliza Simpson on accents. I love dialect coaches, they are my favourite.

[Teango]

Поздравляю тебя с дипломом переводчика, Джоанна! Удачи в поиске работы!

[tarvos]

Поздравляю тебя с дипломом переводчика, Джоанна! Удачи в поиске работы!

Спасибо, дружище

[Cavesa]

What concerns Czech - the language sounds funny for Polish native speakers. Like a parody of our own language. Probably Czechs find Polish the same way

It goes both ways. Polish sounds to us like a Czech kid with a speech impediment.
Plus we've got quite a lot of jokes with funny sounding "false friends".
But let's not forget we love each other in many ways. For example, we translate lots of awesome fantasy books to each other's language.

[tarvos]

I like both Polish and Czech, but I've been focusing on Polish more recently. I've been writing and communicating a lot in Polish and also started the second season of Ultraviolet. I've also learned a bunch of Polish slang terms:

luz, luzik - chill
facet - dude
laska - chick, girl
spoko - cool
ja pierdolę! - Holy cow! (used as an exclamation of surprise)
pieprzyć - to talk bullshit
ogarniać - to get, to grok, to understand (colloquial) cf. Iberian Spanish pillar
przejebane - fucked up
lesba - lesbian (slang) (short for lesbijka)

My Finnish teacher has taken a leave of absence, so I've decided to focus on Swedish for the time being and work on my sentence intonation and pronunciation. The phonemes in and of themselves are fine (I don't even have a problem with the coffee machine sound that is the sj-sound in Swedish). However, I feel like my Swedish is still lacking in the suprasegmental intonation and accent parts, although I get the pitch accent pretty right. I also make some small grammar mistakes here and there (but nothing that really hinders comprehension). In fact, my teacher's just happy she can work on such complex issues with me. (In fact, I'd say I speak pretty excellent Swedish in general, no joke - people there have trouble figuring out whether I'm from Sweden or not and they never switch to English on me).

I've also been reading a little about Greenlandic (looks like Finnish with a messed up pronunciation), but it's got like, no resources, and what there is is all in Danish. I can read Danish, so that should be ok, but it's expensive to get your hands on and I'm poor.

And I'm attending a two-day virtual conference today and tomorrow, which is all in Spanish. It includes talks on how to talk about being disabled in Spanish, gastronomic translations, and non-binary language in Spanish. I'm pretty stoked.

I also finished Lot 202 by Remigiusz Mróz (pretty okay thriller, ending's lame), Landet Utanför by Marcus Birro (he turned out to be a right-wing asshole, so no more supporting him), and Julio Cortázar's Todos Los Fuegos El Fuego (a classic, but I don't get it, sorry). I'm moving on to The Guns of August which is nonfiction in English about the start of WW1, because not everything I read is in foreign languages. (I count English as native). Actually I've already read the first chapter, which is fine.

Is there anything else I forgot to mention? No, I don't think there is. That's it. I hope that suffices for you!

[cjareck]

ja pierdolę! - Holy cow! (used as an exclamation of surprise)

I think that "ja pierdolę" is more powerful. "Pierdolić" is more or less "to fuck". The phrase is used as an exclamation, of a surprise but is vulgar and only "O kurwa!" would be more vulgar.

pieprzyć - to talk bullshit

Pieprzyć has three meanings:
- adding pepper to a meal - neutral and original meaning
- to talk bulshit (colloquial, not that vulgar as "pierdolić" which may also be used in that meaning)
- to fuck - not that powerful as "pierdolić"

By the way using affixes you may describe almost everything using "pieprzyć" or "pierdolić"

[tarvos]

I mentioned those words in certain contexts, but thanks for the explanation <3

[Deinonysus]

I've also been reading a little about Greenlandic (looks like Finnish with a messed up pronunciation), but it's got like, no resources, and what there is is all in Danish. I can read Danish, so that should be ok, but it's expensive to get your hands on and I'm poor.

If you want to whet your appetite for Greenlandic without spending any money you might want to check out tusaalanga.ca which is a free resource for Inuktitut. If you learn Inuktitut you should have no problem understanding Greenlandic. The default dialect on that site (South Qikiqtaaluk, or South Baffin) happens to be the closest to Greenlandic.

I was going to write a bit about how similar Inuktitut and Greenlandic seem to be but it ended up being way too long to put on someone else's log so I made a separate post about it instead.

[tarvos]

I might, or I might just find more Greenlandic resources and be very selective about what I use - or just end up studying Spanish again out of frustration, haha