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| ewomahony Diglot Groupie England Joined 5583 days ago 91 posts - 115 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Afrikaans | Message 1 of 57 20 August 2009 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Are there any papiamentu speakers on this forum, or any people who would like to learn it?
The language name is "Papiamento", I checked this in my dictionaries. DEF: Papiamento = Creole language spoken on Aruba, Curaçao and Bonnaire. EDIT by Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 06 May 2010 at 9:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5905 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 2 of 57 20 August 2009 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh! I love papiamentu ^_^ haven't heard it since I left the Netherlands! if you end up
tackling it (don't know if you will) please start a learning log ^_^ would be great to see how that turns out! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ewomahony Diglot Groupie England Joined 5583 days ago 91 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Afrikaans | Message 3 of 57 20 August 2009 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think I will learn it, as it's a bit different to what I'm used to studying.
Are resources easy to come by? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7104 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 4 of 57 06 May 2010 at 9:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Just bumping this topic up.
I'm going to be taking a stab at learning Papiamentu. However resources are somewhat hard to come by. There is this available: Talk Now! Learn Papiamento Anyone know anything about it - if not specifically then the Talk Now series in general? I normally prefer my learning resources more portable (an Assimil book + iPod does the trick). However, this claims to offer "iPod Integration" whatever that means. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 5 of 57 06 May 2010 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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My best friend's family is originally from Curaçao and speaks Papiamentu fairly well. She taught me some of it when we were in school together but I'd be lying if I said I 'speak' it. I only know a handful of words, some basic grammar and I can count to ten. My favourite catchphrase is "Mi ta kens" which means "I'm crazy". Edited by ReneeMona on 17 May 2010 at 11:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 57 07 May 2010 at 1:54am | IP Logged | ||
Not that I know of. That is the only company (Eurotalk) that publishes material in the language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7222 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 7 of 57 07 May 2010 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I actually wanted to put this language on my hit list a couple of months ago. The administrator informed me if it is popular enough, then Papiamento will be added on the language list for selection.
Aside from software. There is a course consisting of 2 books and 2 cds in Dutch (expensive), that I received last week. One version in English without cds Papiamentu Textbook by Goilo E.R. and a version in Spanish also without cds Hablemos Papiamento same author are also available. For a reader and audio you could always try out what is available from Dunwoody Press. One more thing if you can already speak Spanish, Dutch or Brazilian Portuguese, then comprehension wise will be speedy indeed. Edited by alang on 07 May 2010 at 2:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 57 07 May 2010 at 8:54am | IP Logged | ||
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For people living in the Netherlands it's not uncommon to learn the language Papiamento, because it's the language of the Nederlandse Antillen.
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