So many languages, so little time. A language log (RU, EO, maybe some others)

[IronMike]

В моих уроках марийского языка, я наконец (урок 4) изучаю все спряжения глаголов. В марийском языке есть 2 вида глаголв, в зависимости от оканчания первого лица единственного числа: оканчание -ем или -ам.

Оканчание -ам:
1Е: -ам
2Е: -ат
3Е: -е-*
1М: -ына
2М: -ыда
3М: -ыт
*например, глагол "толаш" третего лица единственного: толеш.

Оканчание -ем:
1Е: -ем
2Е: -ет
3Е: -а*
1М: -ена
2М: -еда
3М: -ат
*например, глагол "илаш" третего лица единственного: ила.

[Radioclare]

It's difficult to comment on people's logs when you can't understand what they say

But I read in another thread that you have started doing Glossika Serbian? I bought it at some point last summer too and I really love it, although I seem to be making glacial progress because I forget to do it every day. I think that says more about my self discipline than about Glossika It is really good though and I am finding it particularly useful for trying to imitate the correction intonation.

[IronMike]

It's difficult to comment on people's logs when you can't understand what they say

But I read in another thread that you have started doing Glossika Serbian? I bought it at some point last summer too and I really love it, although I seem to be making glacial progress because I forget to do it every day. I think that says more about my self discipline than about Glossika It is really good though and I am finding it particularly useful for trying to imitate the correction intonation.

I bought it mostly because of a great review by a friend of mine, and it was the only language in the list that I have interest in maintaining. I'm not going through it now (except to "check it out") but will hold it in the library for our next trip to the region. I read your Croatian in your log to keep up my skills, but I'm only about a B1/B2 anymore in reading BCS.

[Radioclare]

I bought it mostly because of a great review by a friend of mine, and it was the only language in the list that I have interest in maintaining. I'm not going through it now (except to "check it out") but will hold it in the library for our next trip to the region. I read your Croatian in your log to keep up my skills, but I'm only about a B1/B2 anymore in reading BCS.

It's definitely the best audio resource I've tried (far less annoying than Pimsleur!) so I'm sure it will come in handy for a refresher next time you travel. It is such a beautiful part of the world to visit

[IronMike]

I bought it mostly because of a great review by a friend of mine, and it was the only language in the list that I have interest in maintaining. I'm not going through it now (except to "check it out") but will hold it in the library for our next trip to the region. I read your Croatian in your log to keep up my skills, but I'm only about a B1/B2 anymore in reading BCS.

It's definitely the best audio resource I've tried (far less annoying than Pimsleur!) so I'm sure it will come in handy for a refresher next time you travel. It is such a beautiful part of the world to visit

Agree! We as a family went to Brac last summer, and my 19-year old returned to Hrvatska a couple months ago, touring Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik and Hvar, along with returning to Brac! We'll probably take another vacation in the future and try to hit Beograd and Sarajevo.

[IronMike]

All going well with Mari. Working on the present tense conjugations of the two classes of verbs. So far not too hard to remember. I'm recognizing the verbs in Mari dialogues in my text(s) so far, so that's good (Mari is SOV). I've got about 80 vocab words in my Quizlet account, Mari-to-Russian, so I ran through them last night and remembered about 90% of them. But that was L3-L2. I'll try again in a few days going Russian to Mari and see how I do.

I might get a chance to spend the day tomorrow at a conference where Russian will be the working language. Looking forward to that. Always nice to get a good 4-8 hours of immersion!

[jennybenny25]

Hello!

What an interesting log! will be following your progress- good luck!

Ive never herd of Choctaw or Mari :S

[IronMike]

Hello!

What an interesting log! will be following your progress- good luck!

Ive never herd of Choctaw or Mari :S

Thanks for reading!

If you're on FB, there are two groups there you can join. Native American Lingua Franca Challenge, where we are all learning Choctaw, and Endangered Post-USSR Lingua Franca Challenge, where we are all learning Mari. In each of the groups we've actually got fluent speakers helping us!

[IronMike]

Busy couple of days, but still managed to get some Mari studying in. Working though a dialogue in my text. Thinking I might take a trip to Yoshkar-Ula (capital of the Mari Republic) while we're in Moscow so I can try out the language, and hear it in its natural habitat (and let's be truthful: to buy some books in Mari!).

Went to a wonderful conference yesterday, but the room was set up so poorly that I couldn't hear the speakers, so had to use the provided headphone. I did, however, keep it in my ear when the English-speaking panel member spoke, so I could hear some great Russian. And I did get to speak with some Russians while there, so all-in-all good practice.

Plus, the conference was on the lake I'm planning on crossing in a month. So for lunch I swam instead of ate!

[Iversen]

If it hadn't been for your log I might never have noticed that there even was a language called Mari, but Wikipedia tells me that it's an Uralic language, and that it also is known as "Cheremis" (Russian: черемисы, черемисский язык) - which rings a bell since a Finnish composer named Klami once wrote a 'Tseremissiläinen fantasia'. But the verbal paradigms above initially puzzled me because they look so much like paradigms for the Indoeuropean languages - but then I checked the corresponding Finnish paradigms and saw that they also look familiar, the Hungarian tables less so. So on this slim piece of evidence I guess that Mari is closer to Finnish than it is to Hungarian.

Thanks for tempting me to have a look at some of these lesser known languages within the Russian Republic.