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Beginner Questions

by Winnipegis, May 20, 2010

Messages: 38

Language: English

Frankouche (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 10:50:07 AM

qwertz:Off-topic: Btw, I doubt that a cat bites a dog in a figth.
That's why, one reason more, i can't understand or can't say rapidly the first sentence rideto.gif rideto.gif

qwertz (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 11:05:37 AM

Frankouche:
qwertz:Off-topic: Btw, I doubt that a cat bites a dog in a figth.
That's why, one reason more, i can't understand or can't say rapidly the first sentence rideto.gif rideto.gif
Maybe you was a cat in your last life? So, I have to find out what last-life-before character my upper-lowercase sensibilty points to. okulumo.gif

Miland (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 11:07:02 AM

dukemasuya:http://www.4shared.com/dir/_kR8mfdt/sharing.html
Here is a link with lots of resources for Esperanto including a folder for the workbook exercises from Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo..
Koran dankon! But note that the links for downloading Ekzerco_03.pdf and EkzKovrilo.pdf don't seem to work.

qwertz (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 11:25:18 AM

Miland:
dukemasuya:http://www.4shared.com/dir/_kR8mfdt/sharing.html
Here is a link with lots of resources for Esperanto including a folder for the workbook exercises from Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo..
Koran dankon! But note that the link for downloading Ekzerco_03.pdf doesn't seem to work - have you got it?
I can confirm that. The download link to Ekzerco_03.pdf doesn't work. Also the download link to EkzKovrilo.pdf doesn't work. All other download files links inside the Esperanto "Pasporto al la tuta mondo (PDFs)" folder are fine.

The whole video course is available at youtube.

Winnipegis (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 12:52:22 PM

I understand why the reflexive pronoun is necessary for certain pronouns. For example:

Li amas lin. (He loves him.)
Li amas sin. (He loves himself.)

It's not used for other pronouns, because they don't have the dilemma of determining whether the objective pronoun is referring to one's self or someone else. But, nonetheless, wouldn't it make more sense and be more consistent to just have si the reflexive pronoun for all pronouns?

darkweasel (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 1:01:44 PM

Frankouche:
darkweasel:
La katon mordas la hundo.
La kato estas mordata de la hundo.

Now if you want to be understood easily, what wording do you choose?
I still can't understand or can't say rapidly the first sentence.

From my native language, i didn't get the neuron to put the object before the subject ! okulumo.gif
If you learn and use Esperanto more often, you will get this yourself. Personally I do sometimes use verb-subject-object or verb-object-subject order when IRC chatting in Esperanto, which wouldn't be possible in German.

Frankouche (User's profile) May 22, 2010, 1:41:59 PM

darkweasel:Personally I do sometimes use verb-subject-object or verb-object-subject order when IRC chatting in Esperanto, which wouldn't be possible in German.
I prefer to speak or write the most simple as i can, so i usually use the order SVO.

If other locutor speak in a different order, i will certainly make an effort, by politness, but it will be harder to communicate...

horsto (User's profile) May 24, 2010, 10:53:34 AM

Ŝiru_Ĉi_Tie:
EDIT: Oh, and a little help from our more experienced lingvamikoj. okulumo.gif
What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mmm,I get high with a little help from my friends,
Mmm, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends.

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