Greenlandic
Hey "everyone". Despite that I'm really the only one on this comm and that I've left LJ for DW, I'm back for a bit I guess.
Because I've started learning Greenlandic (again)! It turns out, if you only have good learning materials it's actually super easy - there's really few unique words, ex. "town" is "place-where-houses-are", so once you know a word you see it everywhere. I read that there's only actually around 4,000 words in the language, you can learn all those in a month if you want to. The problem is the learning materials are all awful!
It turns out, Greenlandic is just a dialect of the indigenous Canadian languages and most of them are still super similar, but the amount / quality of learning materials differs for each. Greenlandic actually seems to have the worst learning materials, so I've been finding suffix meanings from Inupiaq, grammar lessons from Inuktitut and then reading practice from Greenlandic. Greenlandic is also more "corrupted", ex. it has sound-changes the other dialects don't have but those changes make it a lot harder to look things up in the dictionary.
Anyway, I was bored and frustrated at not being able to find someone to help me learn Greenlandic so I thought I'd post my hellos here.
Because I've started learning Greenlandic (again)! It turns out, if you only have good learning materials it's actually super easy - there's really few unique words, ex. "town" is "place-where-houses-are", so once you know a word you see it everywhere. I read that there's only actually around 4,000 words in the language, you can learn all those in a month if you want to. The problem is the learning materials are all awful!
It turns out, Greenlandic is just a dialect of the indigenous Canadian languages and most of them are still super similar, but the amount / quality of learning materials differs for each. Greenlandic actually seems to have the worst learning materials, so I've been finding suffix meanings from Inupiaq, grammar lessons from Inuktitut and then reading practice from Greenlandic. Greenlandic is also more "corrupted", ex. it has sound-changes the other dialects don't have but those changes make it a lot harder to look things up in the dictionary.
Anyway, I was bored and frustrated at not being able to find someone to help me learn Greenlandic so I thought I'd post my hellos here.