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| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5520 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes  Speaks: Swedish* | Message 33 of 38 19 January 2010 at 8:55am | IP Logged | ||
Who said anything about Celtic? I certainly wouldn't allow any Celtic languages either in Orkney or the Hebrides. Naturally, they'd have to speak Old Norse under my rule. Edited by Gusutafu on 19 January 2010 at 11:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6492 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian | Message 34 of 38 19 January 2010 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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This topic has been discussed a year or two ago, and I've written then that to contribute to conservation or recording the languages, you better go and do field research, record the tales and songs of the people.
There are several endangered languages in Russian Far East and Sakhalin, on which any documentation work would be of great value. The locals speak both their and Russian language, so communicating won't be a problem for Russian speaker. Tuvan language, mentioned above, is interesting, and Tuva is notorious for throat singing traditions, but it's far from being endangered or extinct. Edited by Siberiano on 19 January 2010 at 10:29am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| olhazar Pentaglot Newbie Croatia Joined 5726 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, Modern Hebrew | Message 35 of 38 22 January 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am so glad that a thread like this exists.
I am crazy about Caucasus and Middle East. My goal is this: fluency in Georgian, Abkhazian, and Chechnian. Their dances, their history, the wars, the beauty of men and women…it mesmerizes me. And of course there is a challenge of tackling grammar so different from usual and popular languages. There are not many people interested in caucasian nations and geopolitical games. Before I visited Abkhazia people asked me: where is that country? Who lives there? My native language is Croatian, I took up russian lessons (I learned on my own) during summer of 2007, and after 4 months I was able to visit any russian web page and read material without difficulties. Nobody in Croatia can help me. I found one proffesor at the Faculty of Philosophy (in Zagreb,where many foreign languages are thought) who himself learned Cherkessian. I doubt there is anyone in this part of the world who wants to learn things mentioned above. Someone mentioned that learnig languages should be pragmatical. Well after finishing my PhD (biology) I plan to work in Caucasus for some NGO. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 36 of 38 03 February 2010 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I stumbled upon this site while surfing for information on Mongolian:
http://buryatiasummerschool.org/ It's a summer school near the border of Mongolia and Russia which uses volunteers to teach children for a couple of weeks. In exchange, volunteers get hosted by Buryat families and so get immersed in a Buryat environment. While it may not be quite what people have in mind when learning minority languages in Russia, it still may have some value for people looking for something a little different and wanting something other than a set of textbooks or a dedicated language class. It may also be of interest to anyone on this board who's a teacher in the northern hemisphere and can easily find time for such an activity in July. Some of the volunteers' testimonials also mention the utility of knowing at least some Russian for dealing with situations when your Buryat escapes you completely. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5447 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 37 of 38 04 February 2010 at 6:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Speaking of RF languages, does anyone have materials for Kalmyk? I'm planning to get on that as soon as I become proficient in Russian, and I just want to collect the materials now.
Edit: if anyone knows Mongolian, is the Kalmyk language supposed to be just a dialect of Mongolian? I saw some Youtube comments on Kalmyk videos saying that they can understand it, albeit with some difficulty. Edited by chucknorrisman on 04 February 2010 at 6:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6440 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 38 of 38 04 February 2010 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Here you go:
Darvaev's textbook A bunch of grammars and a dictionary Online dictionary A small site in English (wordlists+audio) Russian-Kalmyk phrasebook An English(!)-Kalmyk-Russian phrasebook (scroll down) Kalmyk shoutcast radio Various native materials (recorded radio, stories, etc) Various folk tales (with links to Russian translation) Edited by zhiguli on 04 February 2010 at 8:57am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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