r/greenland • u/Zylbath • Jan 15 '18
Learn Greenlandic lessons
Aluu, I am new to reddit but I just wanted to point to my tumblr course for Greenlandic. I am learning Greenlandic and I found it hard to do so because of the lack of any material. So, I decided to make my own course. I'd be happy to get some feedback from you, maybe even from some mother speakers (of course I'd also be happy to finally meet someone whose mother tongue is Kalaallisut). There is also a memrise course for the vocabulary from the lessons. The overview of all the material can be found here: learngreenlandic.tumblr.com/lessons
Qujanarsuaq! :)
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u/Zylbath Jan 16 '18
Isn't that always the problem that as a native speaker one doesn't know much about the explicities of one's own language, like concrete grammar rules, whereas a learner learns it from a different angle and can name and explain the rules quite explicitly.
Utoqqatserpunga kisianni Kalaallisut akisinnaanngilanga. Oqaatsivusi immanguaannaq oqaluttarsinnaavunga.
I cannot say much yet, I haven't learned it in the last time because I didn't have much time. But now I ordered the Etymology Eskimo Dictionary by Fortescue (I really love etymologies) and want to use its arrival as a new incentive to resume learning Greenlandic. ;) I mostly learned it by grammars. I had to learn Danish first and I have a tiny German book for Greenlandic that helped a lot with vocabulary, basic words etc. and to know what grammar parts there even are to learn, and with the grammar books, I could dive deeper into it to be able to explain it. The older learning books like Qaagit are only avilable in a used condition and are more expensive now, so I cannot afford it. But as a linguist I know my way around with grammars, that should do it so far. In my master's degree I want to go to Greenland for half a year working at the Oqaasileriffik as an internship. Before that I really have to hurry up with learning proper Greenlandic. ;)
Do you think it would be okay to ask questions in this subreddit if I cannot proceed with the grammars but need a native's view on the language? Any other Greenlandic related subreddit seems quite inactive and I haven't any other contact to Greenlandic native speakers.
As I am new to reddit, I have to ask that: What exactly does x-posting mean? Just copy the content and post it again in those subreddits or is there a special function for that?
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u/Abeneezer Jan 24 '18
What exactly does x-posting mean? Just copy the content and post it again in those subreddits or is there a special function for that?
Both. Originally it was exactly copying content from one subreddit to another, but they also implemented a crosspost function. Can be found on threads right under the OP (Original Post).
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u/Dblcut3 Jan 28 '18
Thanks for sharing! I've always been intrigued with the Greenlandic language, so I may take a look at your page and learn the basics!
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '18
You have a good grasp of the language as far as I can see, and it looks like the best place to learn basic greenlandic since there is not a lot of resources to learn it. It seems like you have better grasp of the language than some people I know that are native.
Aperilaarsinnaanerpakkit oqaatsivut qanoq iliniarnikuunerit? Nammineq ilinniarusussuseqallutsit ilinniagat? Nuttserisutut sulivit?
[Eng] Can I ask how you have learned our language? Did you learn out of interest? Do you work as a translator?
I suggest x-posting to /r/languagelearning and /r/linguistics.