OK, I want to write this post, to describe some things that i was wondering about recently.

Well if you study Korean you probably know about these:


말하는 여자
말한 여자
말할 여자
But, it seems there are other prepositional conjugations in Korean, that are often not taught in grammar books.
(I am not sure if these are correct, plese if you think it's not corrent, you can write a comment).
말 하자는 여자
말 한다는 여자
말하냐는 여자
말하라는 여자
말하려는 여자
The first one would mean, the woman who wants to speak (says: "let's talk").
second one, the woman, who is said to be speaking.
third one (I have never seen this conjgation, butit may exist maybe), the woman who asks if someone talks.
Fourth one, the woman who tells someone to talk.
And the last one the woman who indends to talk.
Interest, is is not?

I've just finished making a pocket grammar guide for French, Spanish and Italian: Here it is.

As with my other pocket grammar guides, each page will be 1/8 of an A4 page, thus allowing you to have the basic grammar of all three of these languages on a single sheet, which is then folded into a little booklet.

I would be very much appreciative if someone looked through this and pointed out any mistakes or made suggestions. In order to fit a lot onto it, I've had to be quite concise, after all.

Proycon's comparison table was very useful for this.

I only joined a little while ago, and so far I've just been messing around, looking to see what topics there are and posting a bit. Today I thought I'd try out the blog option. I had to think for a while about what to write, because it's been ages since I last had a blog. I just want to start out by saying that I really like it here, and it's very nice to find people who are so interested in language, as opposed to my friends, who pretend to listen while I rant about it.

Yesterday, I started writing some lyrics for a little Russian song. It's nothing very interesting or dramatic; it's really just to practice the language. It's in the form of a love song, and I'd like to post it here. Please tell me if I've made any mistakes; comments about the actual content are fine, of course, but as I said, this is really just for Russian practice. So here it is:


Ты не хочешь быть ктото как меня.
Я не хоч...

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OK, yesterday I watched Korean drama, and I have downloaded (whether day before yesterday or yesterday) Shana with burning eyes, in Chinese and Japanese, today I have just learned another pimsleur Mandarin (can you believe? I still cannot understand the tones).
OK, and I am going to do the Korean one.

I’ve been wasting so much of my time with a different number of language-related activities that I thought it’s high time I set some personal rules to help/force me along the way…

When it comes to Amerindian languages, I’ll settle with Tupi (with Guarani being a passive companion because of the interesting parallels one can draw from it).

Scholarly discussions aside, for the sake of simplicity, the Altaic family would provide me with Turkish and Japanese (although Korean may linger around as a reserve).

Not much to discuss about the following families: Afroasiatic (Arabic and Hebrew), Austronesian (Malay), Niger-Kongo (Swahili), Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin), and South Caucasian (Georgian).

Indo-European choices as a whole are harder to restrict. My list of possibilites will be...

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