tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post7683909207493689108..comments2024-03-18T09:47:18.076-07:00Comments on Forever a student: Learning Cantonese - part II.Vladimirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05898612218295828520noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-81776342967725209292019-05-23T22:22:03.841-07:002019-05-23T22:22:03.841-07:00Hello. I do read grammar explanations as an aid, b...Hello. I do read grammar explanations as an aid, but I don't learn languages through grammar explanations. I resort to grammar explanations when I can't understand something by feel or by deductive reasoning or once I've been exposed to the language long enough to start giving it more structure and detail. Vladimirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05898612218295828520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-57076846218294858672019-05-23T14:32:46.019-07:002019-05-23T14:32:46.019-07:00If you listen so much, how do you learn grammar? D...If you listen so much, how do you learn grammar? Do you just keep listening until you notice patterns or do you actually read grammar explanations? Like could you ever have understood German verb order without reading a grammar explanations?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-7022388568368690842017-10-25T14:00:51.068-07:002017-10-25T14:00:51.068-07:00Hope my strategy works :)Hope my strategy works :)Vladimirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05898612218295828520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-47576351330582838702017-10-25T09:40:35.457-07:002017-10-25T09:40:35.457-07:00I got it. Thank you so much.
I've recommended...I got it. Thank you so much. <br />I've recommended your blog to some of my English-speaking friends who are struggling with learning Mandarin and insist that zhong4-yao4 ("important") and zhong1-yao4 ("Chinese medicine") are the same word. One of them has told me that had I read his articles then, I would speak Chinese as fluently as he does now. And I told him that forget "important Chinese medicine", just let them "sink in" bit by bit just like Vladimir says.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303778563447240187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-72720642083817196352017-10-25T09:09:13.099-07:002017-10-25T09:09:13.099-07:00Hello. I guess what I meant was, that you listen t...Hello. I guess what I meant was, that you listen to the sounds of Cantonese and remember them bit by bit until you know them completely. Vladimirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05898612218295828520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-9292011179562342092017-10-25T08:53:22.231-07:002017-10-25T08:53:22.231-07:00"We can spend a couple of weeks if not months..."We can spend a couple of weeks if not months only listening to the language slowly “epiphanizing” the sounds."<br /><br />" 'epiphanizing' the sounds" means ... spending a couple of weeks getting used to them before the moment of a sudden insight comes? Could you just give me a little hint? I'd appreciate it for your help.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303778563447240187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-1517878157835844682011-11-13T18:42:54.721-08:002011-11-13T18:42:54.721-08:00Boat,
thank you very much for the comment.
I di...Boat, <br /><br />thank you very much for the comment.<br /><br />I did effectively forget all of my Cantonese as I didn't work with the language since I wrote this article:) I deffinitely think I can restart with no tonal interference, since I know almost nothing about the language again.<br /><br />Unfortunatelly I don't have a lot of time for that now. I found my lost passion for Farsi and am working on it in most of my free time. <br /><br />Hopefully I will write an article about Farsi grammar and vocabulary relation to Slavic languages this or next week.<br /><br />VladimirVladimirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05898612218295828520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275372772077650637.post-15463808591294009512011-11-13T17:48:42.275-08:002011-11-13T17:48:42.275-08:00Interesting. Keep it up and please tell us about t...Interesting. Keep it up and please tell us about the progress.Boatnoreply@blogger.com