Estimado Lector: please be aware that i continually am revising this blog and if you happen to be reading along and come to something that seems incongruous it probably is where i had to stop revising and tend to one or another of life's frustrating necessities.




I'm writing this to you and to myself. I'm starting out studying Mandarin -pu3tong1hua4 the common language.And I think it would help me [and maybe you] to track my progress. As we advance we forget about the problems we encountered making it difficult to remember how to best help those who come after us.. By charting my advance we will both have a record of difficulties encountered or to be encountered.

First of all let me say I'm having a lot of fun. Mandarin challenges me big time at the outset, being a tonal language.For several months now I've been listening to recordings - Pimsleur and Living Language and you would think...

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我要爱文说。我的爱文不好，但是我要学。


Енглез: Здраво.
Српски: Здраво. Како се ти?
Енглез: Добро, хвала . А ти?
Српски: Ја несам добро.
Енглез: Да вас упознам, ово је мој друг, Аину.
Аину: Драго ми је, господине Српски.
Српски: Драго ми је, госпоћо Аину.


Hekaci suma eyapkir. Ak cis. Ak iruska ne. Ak poro ne. Hekaci as. Acapo ek. Ak isam. Hekaci isam. Acapo cis. Acapo pone e. Acapo tonoto hok. Tane ruyanpe poro as.

Boy throws rock. Younger brother cries. Younger brother is angry. younger Brother is big. Boy falls. Uncle comes. Younger Brother dies. Boy dies. Uncle cries. Uncle eats bone. Uncle buys alcoholic drink. Now much rain falls.

I just thought I'd announce here that I've succumbed to the hype and am trying to use twitter now --> http://twitter.com/proycon

I suppose I could also try to blog a bit on our new blog system here but I probably won't get around to it.

I borrowed a book called "Starting Turkish" from my university's library. It is a very simple book, being its aim to teach foreigners the basics of Turkish language, focused on everyday conversations. I will post some lessons taken from that book here, hopefully it can be useful for whoever visits this blog. I won't start with the alphabet, since, besides being a really easy alphabet, it can be found in wikipedia as well as in many other sites of the internet.

He tomado prestado de la biblioteca de mi universidad un libro llamado "Starting Turkish". Es un libro muy simple, siendo su objetivo enseñar turco básico a los extranjeros, centrándose en las conversaciones del día a día. Pondré aquí algunas de las lecciones del libro, esperando que le sea a útil a quien visite esta página. No comenzaré a explicar el alfabeto, porque, aparte de ser muy sencillo, podéis encontrarlo en Wikipedia o en otros muchos sit...

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دێٔهێ اثێ ونۆٔ ديأ ژێبۆ پرۆباندۆ ا كٔريبي كۆن مي نوێبۆ ارفابێتۆ ي لا بێرداٍه كێ نۆ با مال۔ نتۆبيا مێ تێنگۆ كٍاكۆٔتومبرا ا لێێ مأ راپيدۆ، پێرۆ تۆ هێ پوێدێ ثوپێرا۔
گراثيأ ا تۆٔ لۆٔ كٍابێي يدۆ دێهاندۆ كۆمێنتاريۆٔ، مێ ثۆن مو وتيلێٔ۔

For a couple of days I have been trying my new Arabic alphabet and it's going pretty well. I still have to practise and read more quickly, but that's no big deal. Thank you for all your previous comments, they were really useful.

Soon I'll post something more in here.