Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 25 of 65 13 September 2010 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
ChristopherB wrote:
I love this language so much. I've just spent a LOT of money ordering resources for learning and so I'm going to be studying it seriously in the next few weeks. But I have no idea how far I can ultimately get learning my bedroom in New Zealand! |
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Perhaps this would be the occasion to hook up a few Greenlandic speakers wishing to practice English with some learners with Skype? Don't we have a thread for that somewhere?
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Itseopis Newbie Japan Joined 5423 days ago 10 posts - 9 votes Studies: Finnish
| Message 26 of 65 23 September 2010 at 7:14am | IP Logged |
Det er fint ha grönlandisqa her
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Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5305 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian
| Message 27 of 65 23 September 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged |
If you are a real nerd, you must learn it the nerdish way.
Begin by learning everything you can find in the wikipedia article about Greenlandish. And then read through every scientific article you can find about Greenlandish in the Internet.
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ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6315 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 28 of 65 24 September 2010 at 9:51am | IP Logged |
Aquila123 wrote:
If you are a real nerd, you must learn it the nerdish way.
Begin by learning everything you can find in the wikipedia article about Greenlandish. And then read through every scientific article you can find about Greenlandish in the Internet. |
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I may just have to resort to that. I'm considering the "Sentence Method", which will involve the sentence-mining of as many linguistic articles as I can find! One good thing about them is that they provide, as a matter of necessity, example sentences for the grammatical areas that are being investigated or are in question. An admittedly dry source of sentences, but it should useful nevertheless, years down the road when I get beyond the measly beginner's level.
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Maypal Pentaglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 32 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Russian*, Icelandic, English, Danish, Faroese Studies: Greenlandic, Scottish Gaelic
| Message 29 of 65 17 January 2011 at 12:46am | IP Logged |
Miiyii, takusinnaavugut ilumoortumik nuanniingaarsutit allalerakku :))
I said that Miiyii wrote a lot of interesting things there, hehe ;)
Miiyii wrote:
Okaaaaaaay.. Now this topic is so dead that I want to wake it up by
writing a greenlandic post, so you can see
what the language really looks like.. (Just for fun because of boredom. :D) .. Okay,
heeeere we go:
Massakkut forumimi allappunga, pissanganarpianngilarlu. - Isumaqarpunga forumi una
pikkunaatsoq, inuit
oqaatsit soorlu "tuluttut" soqutingiinnaramingit. .............. |
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Maypal Pentaglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 32 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Russian*, Icelandic, English, Danish, Faroese Studies: Greenlandic, Scottish Gaelic
| Message 30 of 65 17 January 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
Hi, I'm very glad to see this thread, because I've been learning Greenlandic for a while.
A very difficult, yet interesting language indeed.
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zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6371 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 31 of 65 17 January 2011 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
May I ask how on earth you ended up speaking Greenlandic as a native language? That
fascinates me.
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Maypal Pentaglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 32 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Russian*, Icelandic, English, Danish, Faroese Studies: Greenlandic, Scottish Gaelic
| Message 32 of 65 17 January 2011 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
Sorry, I didn't mark Greenlandic as my 'native' language, but I've been learning it for
about 2 years and already able to say something.. but it's really hard to master the art
of the Greenlandic language, everything is absolutely different than in our "Euro-Asian"
languages where phrases are split up into words in a very similar way.
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