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From: dago (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 18:56:21 EDT
hello Karoly,
I would recommend you to look for a good, complete and detailed sailing book in English. One which might be for a total sailing beginner, where all the necessary special language is explained but which is so detailed too, that it is also for a good use for a more experienced sailor.
Something like a "sailing bible". I don't know much about the English sailing book market, so I'm not able to point out a special book. But I would like to hear recommendations for such a books myself, as English wasn't my motherlanguage too. Any foreign language at school had been my absolute horror and I was always very bad at it. Even if I tried to learn any vocabulary very hard it didn't worked. I could answere everything at the vocabulary test but if I had to use those words by speaking or writing in English or seeing the word in the middle of a text, they were like blown away from my mind. And with grammar it happend similar ...
Long time after school, more by accident I started to read more and more books in English (well, my most favourite author ((Bernard Cornwell) wasn't available in German any more or some books (especially one sailing thriller) were soooooo bad translated (from someone with absolute no sailing knowledge) which forced me to look for the original English versions).
I seldom look up any words in a dictionary. I try to understand the words in their context. After a while it worked very good and I found out that the words, the meanings I learn at this way I'm enable to use in writing and speaking fairly well. (I'm surely not perfect, but it seems that I can be understood ...)
I worked myself into several topics and their special English vocabulary in this way, but I haven't done so with sailing yet, but I plan to start now. I haven't just decided with which book I should start ... there are so many available thanks to internet book shops nowadays and I'm a little bit out of money at the moment.
Maybe it would also be a good idea to look for a sailing book which is available translated into your motherlanguage. So you could buy the Hungarian version of it, if you might have any problem in understanding the English one.
If you are better at learning by hearing ... you should maybe go sailing on a boat from an English speaking country ...
Or you can also start to visit all the English sailing homepages in the net ... it might be very possible that there is somewhere in the net also a English-English sailing dictionairy ...
I hope this might help a little bit.
Bye Dago
from Germany's most norther town Flensburg
At 09:59 27.07.04 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>I'm new on this list, altough I'm sailing since my very childhood. However,
>there are a lot of English worlds, I do not understand regarding sailing,
>especially the parts of a craft. Does anyone have an idea how could I catch
>up with native speakers? (Don't suggest that I should look up in the
>English-Hungarian sailing dictionary, cuz there is no such a thing.)
>Thanks a lot,
>Karoly
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