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| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4912 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 3 10 April 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
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Hello to everyone!
I am going to be spending 8 weeks in the Andes mountains living with a host family. I will be in a community where Quechua is spoken by a lot of the people. This at first made me a little annoyed as Spanish was the main goal, although now I am very excited by the prospect of being able to learn "enough" Quechua. As far as the finer aspects of language learning are concerned I am not overly interested, what I am more interested in is a level of communication that will allow me to communicate with the older people in the village. Does anyone have any good resources for this? Or even better, any personal experience with Quechua or learning native american languages in general? So far I am using the lonely planet series phrasebook as well as this website, http://www.andes.org/q_vocab1.html#time Thank you for any advice!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 10 April 2012 at 8:27am | IP Logged |
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runasimi.de
ullanta.com yachay.com Last one's in Spanish. Good luck! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 3 of 3 24 October 2013 at 4:18am | IP Logged |
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I'd like to revive this thread.
I'm looking in particular for resources for learning the Ayacucho (Chanka/Chanca) dialect, but wouldn't turn down good resources for related dialects (in particular the Cuzco dialect, whose main difference seems to be a more difficult pronunciation). The main resources i've been using so far are: RunasimiNet : not always the best explanations and i'm not sure how comprehensive it will be, BUT every sentence has audio to it and there are various voices. Spoken Ayacucho Quechua - Volumes I and II : It seems to be an FSI-style course (i wish i could find the audio!) based around dialogs. I find the explanations aren't always that great (a little technical and leave a lot of things for you to figure out) and sometimes it seems that there are new things introduced in the exercises that aren't explained. Still, it seems to be a valuable course, even if only for the dialogs. They were available on erc.ed.gov but now it seems the pdfs aren't available. I think you can still find them online at places like Scribd, if not just ask and i'll upload them. Qayna, kunan, paqarin: una introducción práctica al quechua chanca : a nice grammar, it says it needs to be used with a professor but i've found the grammar explanations here much clearer than anywhere else. It does follow a series of lessons, but i think the most useful part is the grammar in the second half of the book. If anyone has any suggestions or knows of any good courses/textbooks, please let me know. Spanish or English would be preferable, though if you know of a good course in other languages please share that, too. Thanks! EDIT: I just found that there's a translation of The Little Prince in Quechua: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z3hpv8v5dih8mdy/Principito-Quechua .pdf Edited by Crush on 24 October 2013 at 10:40pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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