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gambi
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Studies: Indonesian, Burmese

 
 Message 17 of 22
15 July 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged 
viedums wrote:

About Burmese and Japanese - well, maybe structurally there is some sort of similarity. But I have studied both and I see very few links - knowing Pali is much more useful for getting Burmese vocabulary, just as it is for Thai, etc. In fact, Pali has influenced written Burmese structurally, there are particles (only in the written language) that stand for the nominative, accusative and other cases. This is because Burmese was first written mainly to translate Pali, and there was a type of religious literature where both languages were read side by side.



There're also nominative, accusative, genitive and other grammatical particles in the spoken/colloquial register of the language as well but they tend to be different from the ones used in the formal written language. That's another difficult thing about learning Burmese. It's a very diglossic language, and so you have to learn two completely different sets of grammatical particles, one for the colloquial register and another for the formal/written register.

Nominative/Topic marker

"ka" or "ha" - Colloquial
"thi" - Formal/Written

Accusative marker

"ko" - Colloquial
"aa" - Formal/Written

Genitive marker

"yeh" - Colloquial
"i" - Formal/Written

Plural marker

"dwe" - Colloquial
"mya" - Formal/Written

Future tense marker

"meh" - Colloquial
"mi" - Formal/Written

Locative marker (Equivalent of English 'at')

"hma" - Collquial
"hneik" - Formal/written

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clumsy
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 Message 18 of 22
20 September 2012 at 2:15am | IP Logged 
I am happy there are more people who try to learn this difficult language.
I intend to reach A1 in it, and so far I have managed to learn the basic grammar.
not A lot of vocabulary yet :(
my practice:

ပိုလန် မြန်မာ မ၁ဟောက်ဘူး။
အဖေနဲ့ ကားနဲ့သွားပါတယ်။

Edited by clumsy on 20 September 2012 at 2:19am

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liddytime
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 Message 19 of 22
13 October 2012 at 3:58am | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
I am happy there are more people who try to learn this difficult language.
I intend to reach A1 in it, and so far I have managed to learn the basic grammar.
not A lot of vocabulary yet :(
my practice:

ပိုလန် မြန်မာ မ၁ဟောက်ဘူး။
အဖေနဲ့ ကားနဲ့သွားပါတယ်။


How's the Burmese going clumsy??
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clumsy
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 Message 20 of 22
14 October 2012 at 2:41pm | IP Logged 
liddytime wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I am happy there are more people who try to learn this difficult language.
I intend to reach A1 in it, and so far I have managed to learn the basic grammar.
not A lot of vocabulary yet :(
my practice:

ပိုလန် မြန်မာ မ၁ဟောက်ဘူး။
အဖေနဲ့ ကားနဲ့သွားပါတယ်။


How's the Burmese going clumsy??

well, I am learning like 30 languages at the same time, so not to well... I managed to learn some basics.
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liddytime
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 Message 21 of 22
15 October 2012 at 5:58pm | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:

well, I am learning like 30 languages at the same time, so not to well... I managed to learn some basics.

Ha ha; I can relate!!!
Best of luck!!
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maungmaung
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 Message 22 of 22
27 November 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged 
မဂၤလာပါ ခင္ဗ်ာ။
ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ရန္ကုန္ကပါ။ သည္ဖိုရမ္ေပၚမွာ ျမန္မာစကား စိတ္၀င္စားတာေတြ႔ရတာ အလြန္၀မ္းသာမိပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ အင္တာနက္ကေနတဆင္႔ ျမန္မာစကားသင္ႀကားေပး ပါတယ္ ခင္ဗ်ာ။ အလုိရွိလွ်င္ ဆက္သြယ္ပါ။ အကူအညီေပးဖို႔ ၀န္မေလးပါဘူး။


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