Georgians don’t say “you are lucky”… they say “you were born on a happy star.” (ბედნიერ ვარსკვლავზე ხარ დაბადებული). So how many different forms is that ? 16 0 obj <> endobj xref 16 41 0000000016 00000 n 18. ნიაზ დიასამიძე & 33ა – ნამი ველს / Niaz Diasamidze & 33A – Nami Vels, 19. Georgians don’t say “you are crazy”… they say “you let your sails up.” (აფრები აუშვა), 13. 0000030620 00000 n I have used songs for teaching English, I have a few with exercises that I have found in textbooks like Madonna’s “, Some Georgian Words I find difficult to Remember, Don’t be afraid (“ნუ გეშინია” /Nu geshinia/). Don’t be afraid (“ნუ გეშინია” /Nu geshinia/). Just click on the sentences to see the answers. I haven’t found a translation of the lyrics into English but I can use Google translate.

Usually in the comments section, someone will have written out the lyrics (in Georgian), which helps. Sometimes it is just a slip or a momentary brain freeze that adds a word to this difficult list. 0000029861 00000 n The playlist currently has 25 songs and I will play it with shuffle on in the background, when I am doing something else. I have a bilingual book of Little Red Riding Hood, წითელქუდა. Uncertain Condition – Autumn ეხლა არ ვიცი რა მიხარია (I don’t know what I’m happy about now) x2, ნუ გეშინია ისევ ამოვა მზე (Don’t be afraid of the sun coming up again) He (Rimmer) found the process of revising so gruellingly unpleasant, so galling, so noxious, that, like most people faced with tasks they find hateful, he devised more and more elaborate ways of not doing it in a ‘doing it’ kind of way. 6. ის დაიწყოს             ის დაიწყებოდა                  ის დაწყებულა          ის იწყებოდეს It is a love song with very flowery lyrics… Your eyes are the color of these mountains and my eyes sing to you… They called her that, because she always went out with the red cape that her grandmother had sewn for her. Georgians don’t say “I saw something beautiful”… they say “my eyes drank water.” (თვალს წყალი დაალევინა), 9. Tad, an American learning Georgian, looks at the online newspaper Kvira (კვირა) to practise Georgian each day. There are few Georgian words I can recognise by sight, I have to spell them out and then I might get confused by letters which look similar like ვ, კ and პ or  ბ, ს and ხ. I might for example, when reading confuse ვარდისფერი /vardisperi/ = pink with კარტოფილი /kartopili/ = potato because they are a similar length and shape and the beginnings ვარ and კარ look very similar. The blowing wind and the leaves remind me of Galaktion Tabidze’s poem “ქარი ქრის”. from “Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers” by Grant Naylor. კართან მოდგა შემოდგომა, ნაადრევად მოფრენილი, გაზაფხულის მეგობრები, დამეფანტნენ ფოთლებივით…. ასე იმიტომ ერქვა, რომ სადაც არ უნდა წასულიყო, ყოწელთვის ბებიას მოქსოვილი წითელი ქუდი ეხურა. (It is best to avoid Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”, for example.

Many of the songs can be found on YouTube in “karaoke” versions, so you can try to follow the lyrics as they sing. 0000007141 00000 n You get exposed to lots of new words and grammatical constructions. ეხურა …. An English verb will only have four or five forms. Take the verb begin დაიწყება, In the present there are already six forms. Using popular music for learning Georgian, I have made a playlist on YouTube of Georgian Music. ისევ, ამოვა ცაზე და მზე (Again, there will be the sun in the sky), ქარების დღეა ქრიან ფოთლები (It’s a windy day, the leaves are blowing) Present     Past progressive     Past Simple      Future Tense I think it helps only when you have achieved a certain level in that language. ეხლა არ ვიცი რას ველოდები (Now I don’t know what to expect)

როცა გეძინათ ყველა (When you were all asleep)