[Foreign Language Diary] Pipa's Minor Language Learning Tidbits

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Here’s a set of words to wrap up today’s Hungarian study:

  1. aztán
  2. persze
  3. sok
  4. mikor
  5. engem
  6. értem
  7. történt
  8. túl
  9. sajnálom
  10. na
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Today I looked at Vowel Harmony (also called vowel assimilation, i.e., the front vowels (e, é, i, í, ö, ő, ü, ű) or back vowels (a, á, o, ó, u, ú) being consistent within a word), which is a characteristic of the Altaic or Uralic language families. In short, the vowels are either all front or all back.

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What does the high and low of vowels mean?

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What this actually refers to is the height of the tongue (or the size of the opening) when pronouncing, for example the pinyin i, u, ü are high, while the pinyin a is low.

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Correction: Either all front, or all back.

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Here are ten more words:

  1. ahogy
  2. na
  3. aztán
  4. mondta
  5. történt
  6. mikor
  7. se
  8. engem
  9. kérem
  10. nézd
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I don’t recognize any of them :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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Still lost due to the pronunciation of ty and gy. I need to listen to more audio and practice this week.

Stress is usually on the first syllable; declarative sentences have falling intonation

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  1. I understand
  2. a lot
  3. a little
  4. go
  5. I’m sorry
  6. e
  7. I was
  8. I said
  9. Of course
  10. too
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  1. I was
  2. new
  3. go
  4. I said
  5. other
  6. a little
  7. eh
  8. you want
  9. right?
  10. with me

Today my friend helped me correct the pronunciation of ty/gy, and now the voice input method can already distinguish them!

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I’m back!
I’m back!

First, making up for yesterday:

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No group chat anymore, it’s hard to get used to it. I brought Zhan’s green bean cake and even said I’d share it with the door friends, but now there’s no way to contact them in time.

Maybe just go back directly and try to see if I can get some town‑hall pictures.

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Can I be inside the building here?

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What is at here? :thinking:

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Just @here, huh?
Should there be spaces before and after a formal at? I don’t want to disturb others here, so I deliberately make it not work.

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I see, seems like I’ve seen it before, let’s talk about it next time

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I have an idea!

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  1. never
  2. everyone
  3. better
  4. beautiful
  5. I want
  6. someone
  7. please
  8. sun
  9. hi
  10. trouble
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I am traveling.

In Singapore I

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I want to see the study visit updates :face_holding_back_tears:
The zoo, Gardens by the Bay, Botanic Gardens, Universal Studios, and the aquarium in Singapore are all so fun ()

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