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jimk2000 (显示个人资料) 2008年10月11日下午9:25:48
I have used a few memory tricks such as for "Kial"(why)-"Al stayed at the "Y"MCA. but when I take any quizzes I get less than 50%. Any one else out there have the same problem with correlatives when they were learning this language?
toiletdude (显示个人资料) 2008年10月11日下午9:36:12
But, don't stress too much over them. They aren't the kind of vocabulary that is easy to learn, but knowing the parts of them will definitely help.
This is what I was told, not to stress to much over them. And that suggestion holds true.
Just each time you find one when you're reading a story or taking a lesson, click on it, and read it (and the definition) aloud. Even if you know that particular one.
Eventually you'll remember them.
It may also help to make flashcards and go over them daily. And each day try to make sentences with the ones that you remember.
Also, from personal experience, memory tricks tend not to help with spoken Esperanto. With written they do (you have more time to think about what is given) but with spoken it can be tedious.
Hope I didn't bore you, and I hope this may help.
Miland (显示个人资料) 2008年10月11日下午10:03:13
If you look at good textbooks like Teach Yourself Esperanto, you will find that they teach the correlatives piece by piece. They don't begin by asking students to memorise the whole table at once. Rome was not built in a day, so take it easy.
jan aleksan (显示个人资料) 2008年10月12日上午8:57:09
But for -ia and -iel, you can see the use of -a- and -e-. So Kia refers to a quality (the response would be an adjective) where as Kiel refers to a manner (the response would be an adverb). (don't mix with -ie!)
Kia sxi estas? bela; kiel sxi estas? bele
-io > objekto;
-iu > ulo (even if it's not a good asociation)
-ie > ejo
-ies > sia
-iom: look carefully IOM. I see 1,0 and a "fallen" 3 . So, iom is about numbers(But maybe I have a crazy mind^^)
-iam sounds as jam, Which is also a time word.
Greetings,
eb.eric (显示个人资料) 2008年10月12日下午3:51:46
This way it also helps because you can reverse engineer from the ones you know. ie. you said you remember that kial = why, so you can figure out that ki- means a question and -al means a reason, so when you come across ie. tial, you already know half its meaning, and that it's not a question. Eventually the gaps will fill and it will be second nature.
Draw out the table a couple times, maybe even explain it to your friends, it will help you remember. It will also probably be pretty interesting to your friends because all in all it's a pretty elegant system for very useful words in a language.
rows: ki- ti- i- cxi- neni-
columns: -o -u -a -e -al -am [edit: forgot -es and -om]
Zafur (显示个人资料) 2008年10月12日下午11:02:53
awake (显示个人资料) 2008年10月13日下午12:39:18
Each correlative is made up of a beginning part plus an ending part. There are 5 beginning parts and 9 ending parts. If you just learn the parts, that's 14 things to learn. If you try to learn all the words together, that's 45 very similar words to learn. It's a challenge to learn them all. It's much easier to just learn the 14 pieces. Once you learn them, practice putting them together. Draw out the table with all the little parts in place on the top and left side....then just put them together. Once you can build them and figure out what they mean, it will be easy to break them apart. It didn't take long at all to be able to build the chart.
Once I could do that, I made flashcards with all the full words and drilled them every day for a couple of days.
then I just read lots of esperanto. Every time I came across a tableword I deconstructed it in my head...
tiam = ti + am = that time = oh that means then
kie = ki + e = which place = oh that means where
ĉio = ĉi + o = every thing = obviously everything
etc. Having to do this while reading slowed me down at first, but I could read any correlative and figure out its meaning.
After some short period of time of reading, I stopped translating them in my head, I just knew them. And because it's such a logical system I even know the ones I rarely (if ever) encounter.
erinja (显示个人资料) 2008年10月22日上午1:29:56
In any case, they usually seem tricky at first but please trust me when I say that it gets much easier, and with time, correct use of correlatives comes automatically.
trojo (显示个人资料) 2008年10月24日下午6:16:34
Zafur:I think I finally got the correlatives down pretty good when I finished the Bildoj kaj Demandoj lesson. It slowly goes through them so you know the last one pretty well before you go to the next. So just learn the easiest ones one by one until you know them all.Same here. I think Bildoj kaj Demandoj is an excellent tool for learning correlatives.
