TEACH ME YOUR LANGUAGE! - Page 8

Diamond Mum · (#176 (**permalink**))

pele

children do pick up languages extreemly easly under the age of 8, which is something that i learnt on my child care course, chomsky and skinner were the two ideologist that paint very good pictures on how children learn.

you are good to be doing spanish as well... i was doing potugues, but the similarities had me very confused, as some of the words just seem like variations... so im sticking to french at the mo...

do you not get the french and spanish mixed ??

Pele · (#177 (**permalink**))

Pele wrote:

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Afriki.....From Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire?

Baule......Baules are very small......While back, I heard it's one of many old African languages that will have very few people who speak/know it. How good are you at it?

Cote d'ivoire. Many people speak it, or know how to, in Cote d'ivoire, the parts that i've been in, mostly villages. I spoke it when I was younger (it was my first language until about 3 years old) so I never got a well enough grasp of it to be fluent, however I never really had problems understanding it, but whenever I go back to see my family it takes a few weeks to become reaquainted with it.

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My mistake, I thought I heard something about Baule being one ofmanylanguages in Africa that will be lost inthe next century.

came back to add...
I just did some pratice, I haven't spoken it in years, and i'm surprised at how much I do actually remember. Another thing I noticed is that the language structure is not that different from common modern day languages such as English and French, and Spanish. It follows common tenses...

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Practice, practice, practic is what we all should be doing. In the state I live there are many African Communities(Most from Eastern andWestern Africa)who have children who will never know an African language, because their parents lost the language or don't speak tothem at home. How sad!

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Eat
n dit= i'm eating
n dit-ly= I ate
n dit-vyeh= I want to eat
n dit munh=I'm not eating
n su dit=I'm about to eat

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Is the "n" silent?Like can I say "su dit-I'm about to eat"?Am I right to say, it's a Bantu Language?Yes,

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indeed it has very modern structure and looks great.

Go
n coh=I'm going
n coh-vyeh= I want to go
n coh munh=i'm not going
n su coh=i'm about to go

also, there are a few words that are similar to english words, most likely purely by coincidence..

beh=they
mi=me
yo=you
seh=say

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Yeah, these sound like english words.

Pele · (#178 (**permalink**))

pele

children do pick up languages extreemly easly under the age of 8, which is something that i learnt on my child care course, chomsky and skinner were the two ideologist that paint very good pictures on how children learn.

Diamond Mum.....I'm reader of Chomsky, I think he has very interesting things to say about languages, even when some of his ideas can't be replicated. Lately he did came outand said "he's wrong on many levels on his take about children and language acquisition".

you are good to be doing spanish as well... i was doing potugues, but the similarities had me very confused, as some of the words just seem like variations... so im sticking to french at the mo...

Yep, I work with two spanish speakers and they have been helping me.And so far so good, it's an easy language to learn.

do you not get the french and spanish mixed ??

Yes.For me,I also know some Italian(both my parents/grand-parents speak italian-In somalia wheremy parents arefrom it was a part of national language before we took ind. from Italy), and if one knows Spanish.......he or she understands Italian very well. So, learningspanish, your also learning some Tuscan dialect.

Afriki · (#179 (**permalink**))

Pele, there is probably some truth to what you said about the language disappearing. Many of my cousins that moved from the villages when they were young, or who were born in the cities because their parents moved from their village know the language even less than I do. Even if the parents are fluent in it, they don't normally speak it.
Not only are the use of dialects diminishing, but the villages too, as it is the villagers who mainly use the dialects, many not even knowing how to speak the national language of French. Villages are being abandoned by the younger generations and/or becoming "urbanized". Even my mother's village after an eternity of not having electricity just got wired up a few years which was a HUGE deal.
The children leave the villages to go to upper grade schools as most villages only carry elementary education and they are discouraged in the city schools from speaking their language and they eventually adopt French as their main language.
Doula and Baule, from what I understand, are the two largest DIALECT languages spoken in Cote D'ivoire and Baule is an Akan language. I'm not sure which group Doula falls under as they migrated from Burkina Faso.

oh, and the "n" is not silent. You wouldn't prounounce it "En", like you're saying the letter, but rather taking away the "eh" sound and just saying "nn". Hard to explain, but does that make sense?

btw, this thread is a great idea and really is bringing me way way back lol. Now I have to back track and read some of the other languages here. I really hope I can find some Yoruban and Swahilli.

Pele · (#180 (**permalink**))

Afriki...............Yeahhh,Uwill find some great languages in here..........

Those I fear the most are children of immigrants born in the west I see them everyday here,they know little. The hardest hit, are those children who live without a parent who keeps up the language in the houseor doesn't live a community which shares a similar language. Theywill not have the advantage to speak their parent's mother language at all. Not that long ago, the African Union was trying to make Swahili an African wide language, where it becomes a national language for all of Africa, specially in business. I was like.......NOOOOOOOOOOOO Wayyyyyyyyyyyy. We need to revive and keepall African languages.

oh, and the "n" is not silent. You wouldn't prounounce it "En", like you're saying the letter, but rather taking away the "eh" sound and just saying "nn". Hard to explain, but does that make sense?

Yes it does, In Somali....there arevery close or similar words. It's one letter repeated. "Kh" which closely sounds as Q in english....e.g. Taariikhda = calendar/time period. You take away "khah" sound. Or the "Dh" in "dhulkooda" =their land. Now we are getting into grammer..niceone.gif

btw, this thread is a great idea and really is bringing me way way back lol. Now I have to back track and read some of the other languages here. I really hope I can find some Yoruban and Swahilli.

Yep.....There are some Swahili in the first 4 pages.

Pele · (#181 (**permalink**))

La vie va grand. Souhaiter vous tous la bonne chance avec la vie.

Huid · (#182 (**permalink**))

1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Comment vous vous appellez? Or Quel est votre nom?

2.WHERE ARE YOU FROM? D'où venez vous?

3.CALL ME. Appelle moi

Pele · (#183 (**permalink**))

Huid...thanks and welcome....

Pele · (#184 (**permalink**))

Spanish? Need more spanish speakers...

MivharMeni · (#185 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Pele

ANY LANGUAGE IS WELCOME. HOW DO YOU SAY.....

1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME?

2.WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

3.CALL ME.

FAR START.

1. Who you be?
2. Where your people from?
3. Holla back.

Russengo · (#186 (**permalink**))

Wazungu - white people

Ulaya - Europe

Weusi - Black people

Amerika - America

Kingeleza - English

Prisoner · (#187 (**permalink**))

MY LANGUAGE - SHONA - SPOKEN BY MILLIONS IN ZIMBABWE (THE MAIN DIALECT).

1. we want freedom --- tinoda rusununguko.
2. beautiful girl --- tsvarakadenga.
3. black man --- munhu mutema.
4. people --- vanhu.
5. God --- Mwari.
6. God --- Nyadenga.
7. God --- Musiki.
8. God --- Musikavanhu
9. South --- Chamhembe
10. Knowledge --- ruzivo.
11. The Sun --- zuva

counting 1 to 10
1 poshi
2 piri
3 tatu
4 ina
5 shanu
6 tanhatu
7 nomwe
8 rusere
9 pfumbamwe
10 gumi.

SHONA IS ONE THE THE BANTU DIALECTS AND IS SPOKEN BY NOT LESS THAN 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN ZIMBABWE AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, it has many variants though.

thanks. (Maita henyu).

By the way Zimbabwe means great big house of stone, stones are very important in my culture and played & still do play a major role in our society. Zimba- means big house - bwe means stone so put together Zimba & bwe make the word Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has 5 out of ten of the worlds greatest stone sculpturures hmmm. Some of the stone sculptures from Zimbabwe influenced picassos paintings after a friend of his sent him photos of Shona sculpture picasso kept on requesting for more and they inspired his later work.

One of the most Ancient civilisations known in Africa named Madzimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe) which was ruled by the likes of King Munhumutapa is where Zimbabwe got its name as a country as well. There where 7 birds carved of stone in the ruins of Madzimbabwe which are said to have been fish eagles/ doves, some where taken away by the Germans and later given back, of the 7 stone birds 4 have been recovered -- there is a belief by some that Zimbabwe shall only have peace when all seven birds are restored to their rightful place in Zimbabwe.

So a bit of my language + culture. thanx

Pele · (#188 (**permalink**))

Russengo.....Uganda? Kenya?

Pele · (#189 (**permalink**))

Prisoner....Best response so far.......Thanks man......now I can go to TheWatcher and slap these words left to right......