man, learning greenlandic's so frustrating for reasons entirely unrelated to how "difficult" the language is >.< none of the dictionaries or learning materials or anything really break down the words, and so ex. i thought "teach - ilinniar" was its own word, actually much later i find out it's a compound word of "ilip niar" and now i have to figure ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

weeeeeeell i know this comm is dead.

but apparently LJ's changing the rules so if you don't have a post every 6 months your journal/comm gets deleted for inactivity. and i don't want that. no one ever posts here anymore so i think i'll move the comm over to dreamwidth, the only current hinder being that i'm currently too lazy to figure out if you ( Read more... )

hey everyone, long time no see ( Read more... )

by random chance, found this article on "gøtudansk" - the special danish in the faroe islands!

http://www.frodskaparfelag.fo/Fr%C3%B8%C3%B0i/Fr%C3%B8%C3%B0i%202009%20nummar%201.pdf

it's listed on this comm under dialects but i had ( Read more... )

Gotta make this comm more active!!

på means "location". temporal or physical, it doesn't matter:

on the table = physical
on monday; on second thought = temporal

in the box = physical
in an hour = temporal
in other words = non-physical

at the seashore; ashore = physical
at 4 o'clock; asleep = non-physical

walk to the store = physical
talk to him = non- ( Read more... )

updated the sticky explaining how the different nordic languages are / which ones to learn!

A while ago I posted about how I was writing a textbook for Faroese, I think...? Well, I ended up losing those files or something but I'm rewriting it all now and the book is about halfway done. After I finish it'll be really easy to convert it into a book about Icelandic too, and then I might work on a compilation one for how to learn both at once ( Read more... )

for all ye who’re interested in faroese, they’ve updated sprotin.fo (FO to english, danish, german etc and vice versa dictionary). now it basically has more words, sometimes pictures, new layout, and of course as of an update from sometime over a year ago it’s become free to use for everyone (not just paying members).

and, important to know, ( Read more... )

dictionary is now at just over 900 words and i've begun to write grammar lessons, but i've realized that the "grammar" you need to know is simply just individual small words that only come in the middle of other words, meaning i can't find them in the dictionary by alphabetizing things. for example, the word "no, not" is one of these. i apparently ( Read more... )