kokorodoko wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:33 am
я вірю, що світ належить кожному.
Think I'll give this a try.
Getting the hang of this now! At the stage of being able to recognize what I'm hearing as language, as something distinct, it sounds like
this and it sounds familiar. Basic sentence-construction makes sense to me, and watching a video like
this with English subtitles I'm able to identify easily, with a few exceptions, what parts I don't know.
Some changes I made in my approach this time around, all for the better:
1) treating the spoken language as chunks of sound rather than individual "words"
1b) practicing speaking by imitating things heard (that are clearly spoken and intelligible), the rhythms, the pitch-shifts, the pauses... rather than repeating isolated words and phrases
2) learning vocab and grammatical patterns from contextual encounter and re-application for personal purposes, rather than through "word-collection" and drilling
3) not straining to comprehend things I don't grasp immediately (unfamiliar sentence patterns, words with unclear meaning, idioms, etc.)
... while still keeping a degree of systematicity and analyticity (e.g. saving conjugation lists for reference), but it's become apparent to me how for example the way descriptions of grammar are laid out in books and other resources tends to give things the appearance of sameness across the board. Like, it cannot easily show how some grammatical cases or verb forms occur much more frequently than others, or how the specific ways in which a pattern is deployed
is that actual pattern, rather than an instance of a non-situational example. The most it can do is list every possible distinct use-case, but trying to learn them like this isn't very good I've found.
In any case - fascinating language and not what I expected at all. Excited to continue this.
