This is my latest language project. Everyday, I'll post my progress here. It all began February 1st -zeme.
It’s been a while, I know. I’ve been busy with other things such as school, a new job, and other annoyances. I’m currently going through Teach Yourself Maori (no, not from the “Teach Yourself” series, but that doesn’t mean it’s not one of the best language manuals I’ve read so far!) I’m totally loving Maori so far. I also had a quick look back at Marshallese. I have a feeling I’ll get back to it sometime :) Oh! and Armenian is tempting.. It might be my next challenge.
These two languages interest me a lot lately. I think I’ll attack them as soon as I get more comfortable with my Icelandic.
It’s March, and I’m 100% Icelandic-focused at the moment. I’m improving!
I installed an SMF forum for testing themes, and worked on the new wikilang forums skin. It’s better than I ever imagined! I’m still tweaking things here and there with colors and images, but most of it is ready. I’ll release the completed package sometime this week or the next :)
Woah! Marshallese is confusing! There’s not a word I can guess from other languages, and it has a funny structure. It’ll be very challenging to reach beginner level after all..I guess I was getting used to easy Creoles :)
I’ll be putting Pitkern and Norfuk on hold, due to the limited resources and the lack of help from fluent speakers. I’m attacking Marshallese full strength (I have quite a lot of good resources, surprisingly), and then again, if resources are ubiquitous enough, I’ll study Rapa Nui. On top of that, they have great flags!
Just seconds ago I stumbled upon an incredibly appetizing language: Norfolk (or Norfuk).
-it’s endangered! -it’s easy to learn -it has a super flag!
I’m very very tempted at the moment.. Can’t wait to learn more about it! Gotta go!
Woohoo! I now reached a “basic” level of proficiency in Tok Pisin! I can say basic things, read simple sentences, and get by with a dictionary. I can identify the language in both its written and spoken forms :) Things are going really good! I’m proud of my achievement so far, it’s worth a star, but I know I can go much further, still. I plan being at least intermediate-advanced before the end of the year.
It’ll be the most “useless” language I studied so far :) I’ll probably never end up in Papua New Guinea, and I’m not planning to. I’ll probably never meet any Tok Pisin speaker either, and most of the forums are dead.. but that’s what makes me love Tok Pisin so much! That and the flag!
I’ll be posting less often from now on. I have to study more ;)
Here’s my progress so far:
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I’m currently in a Tok Pisin flow, so I’ll stay with it.
I’m not too proud of myself today either, as I haven’t studied any language at all. I guess ithat being a Sunday, it’s understandable. But; well, surprisingly I met two Danish families at work today!
After listening to their conversations I asked, at the cash, what language they spoke. (it definetely was a Germanic language, very probably Nordic, absolutely not German, surely not Dutch, didn’t sound like Norwegian really, and not “Old Norsy” enough to be Icelandic. I guessed either Faroese due to my poor knowledge of that language’s sounding, or Swedish for similar reasons, but I just couldn’t plant my dart in it with assurance.) I wasn’t really thinking Danish, so I was a bit surprised. What shocked me even more was that an hour or so later; a man and his daughter told me they spoke Danish too when I asked them! It’s the third time I hear I Germanic language being spoken in the shop, and two were in the same day! (the first being German)
So anyway, to me Danish sounded like strongly Vikingized* German with frequent unrecognizable and hard-to-make-written sounds apparently common to Danish ;) I loved that experience.
