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gambi Newbie New Zealand Joined 5123 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English 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.
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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 Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5192 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| 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 Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6243 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written)
| 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။ |
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How's the Burmese going clumsy??
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5192 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| 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။ |
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How's the Burmese going clumsy?? |
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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 Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6243 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written)
| 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. |
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Ha ha; I can relate!!!
Best of luck!!
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| maungmaung Tetraglot Newbie Myanmar Joined 4735 days ago 7 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Burmese*, EnglishC2, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French
| 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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