#language jam

I participated in LANGUAGE JAM last weekend. It was a lot of fun and I got to get familiar with Dutch🇧🇪🇳🇱! IM SORRY FOR BUTCHERING THIS LANGUAGE. . . I struggled. If anyone speaks Dutch, especially Flemish, please😔 help me and my sad nederlands. I don't know why, but I had a German accent the whole time😂.

The language I got was.... Finnish!🇫🇮

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I started off with Langfocus's new video on Finnish and Estonian (double win!!)

It briefly goes over grammar and gives key points about the language's influences and details.

Video Link

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I made an account on FinnishPod101 and started making notes!

Finnish is a Uralic language, which is most closely related to Kirelian, Estonian and not so closely to Hungarian. There aren't many surviving Uralic languages!

Finnish is also a synthetic language meaning that adding morphemes to a word can create a sentence.

It has 15 grammatical cases (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)

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I : Minä

You : Sinä

He/She : Hän

Hi : Hei

Hello : Terve (lit. Healthy)

Hyvää huomenta

Good morning

(Huomen can mean morning or tomorrow like mañana or morgen)

Hyvää päivää

Good day/ afternoon

(Päivä means day)

To be : olla

Minä olen

Sinä olet

Hän on

What is your name?

Mikä sinun nimesi on?

What your name is?

My name is _

Minun nimeni on_

Pleasure to meet you

Hauska tututsua

Welcome : Tervetuloa

(The 1st and 2nd person pronouns are usually dropped in formal writing but common in speech, 3rd person pronoun is necessary)

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Andddd for culture I'm having trouble finding Finnish shows and movies but I love metal and Finland has the highest density of metal bands in the world! Followed by Sweden, Norway, and Iceland!

I've been listening to Korpiklaani! Check them out!! It's Viking metal!!

🌸 Ievan Polka

🌸 Vodka

🌸 Rauta

The langblr community is great and inspiring and I've found out so many interesting things since I created this blog... :)

However, it's pretty maddening to see people always making drama. The langjam challenge is about indigenous and threatened languages : people will tell you it's bad cause it harms the communities and don't help the peoples who don't want you to learn their language BTW.

Bullshit : this is just an opportunity to make people learn about other cultures hoping that they'll be more understanding of other people. The challenge has never been to save the language but just learn and sympathize. Plus, it's a way for associations, groups, peoples and tribes to have publicity and sometimes money as polyglot might buy books from them or even donate money.

Also there's always this discussion over langblr being too Europe-centered but when people learn non-European languages that aren't really mainstream you'll get this discussion that it's cultural appropriation and you have nothing to do with it...

I’ll be participating in the language jam of 2020. My assigned language is Polish 😄

[ 3 / 21 / 2020 ]

this was my first week of online classes after my school was closed. definitely not how i pictured my senior year, but obviously i understand that we needed to do this. a lot of my college visits got cancelled too, which makes this big decision a lot harder : (

some good things that came out of being home is i’ve started wearing contacts and i got a lottttt of reading done!

the prep phase for language jam started yesterday. my language is italian, so i don’t have much prepping to do since it has latin script. i’m excited for my second ever language jam though!

pages this week: 204

2019.07.26

I went to the public library today and I got myself a book in Dutch and a Spanish book! I’m so so happy about that Dutch book because I actually saw the musical to it in Dutch during my exchange! I also managed to get a hand on a Leuchturm 1917 notebook, so be prepared for potential Bujo posts!!!

Overall I’d say today I got quite a lot of studying done. That mainly was a result of my work saying I don’t have to come. 

Spanish ~ 30 min

I just reviewed some Flashcards and went further with my Spanish workbook. Nothing special I’d say.

Samoan ~ 30 min

I started with the indigenous language jam! I started out with doing some Vocab to get a feeling for Samoan. I then proceeded to do the Introduction chapter of the Samoan book I found. I focused on Pronunciation and Greetings. All in all a successful first day!

Korean ~ 1hr 30min

I did lessons from TOPIK, TTMIK, Active Korean and some random exercises I found on the internet. I also went through a lot of Flashcards and of course, I also did the laptop1000 challenge. 

Here are today’s words:

문화 - culture

원 - Won, KRW

생각 - thought

어떻다 - how, what do you think of

명 - people

통하다 - to run, lead, flow, go through

그러다 - and so, and then, to do so, to do it

소리 - a sound, noise

다시 - again

다른 - different

For those who don't know, Manx is the language native to the Isle of Man, an island between Britain and Ireland.

Manx is a Celtic language, of the Gaelic branch. It is closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and distantly related to Breton, Cornish and Welsh.