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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Here's my second blog entry. Hi again. It's half-term week, so I've taken a break from my usual language learning to look at a book on Japanese that my mother got me. I've found Japanese fascinating for a long time, but I put off learning more about it, because the script is so difficult to understand. I'm doing alright, though, and I am now thinking about trying to go further with it.
Anyway, the main thing I want to bring up today is how frustrating it is to have a strong passion which people around you don't share or understand. Most of my family and friends are not particularly interested in language; nor are they as pedantic about it as I am. Yesterday, on a different forum, someone made the mistake of thinking that accent and dialect meant the same thing. I politely corrected them, and brought up this subject with my dad and brother. All was well until my brother said "dialects are the written form". Well, I just had to explain to him what a dialect really is. Then, a bit...

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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.

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 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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