What an interesting way for that photo to load . . .
I was excited to finally find a copy of this in Norwegian. I know Robin said we could participate by reading in English if we couldn't find our learning language, but I didn't want to do that. Something about that just made me sad.
This book came in today's mail. I was surprised it was a hard back, since I found it for only $15 (including shipping).
Looking through it, I see that I'm not ready to start on it and be able to have even a 50% comprehension. The vocabulary is not complex, though, and if I hit my language learning goals for this next week, I could have a fairly good grasp without having to stop too frequently to consult the dictionary.
I'm really excited to begin this, and I think it's a great idea to push my language learning past my comfort zone, without being so difficult that I quit in discouragement. On my own, I wouldn't have attempted this for quite some time.
If anyone knows that this title has also been translated into Cherokee (the other language I'm learning, at the same time), please do let me know! That will be quite the challenge . . . and probably one I need to do much later. (Cherokee is a syllabary. In Cherokee, the word for the Cherokee people is Tsalagi. And in syllabary, that is written: ᏣᎳᎩ. See what I mean?)
In the meantime, this adds an exciting new layer in how to balance learning two languages at the same time.
It’s really satisfying finishing a book not in a mother tounge languange. I have just read a psychological book about mindset in English, although at some point I don’t know exactly the meaning of the words but still guess and understand the whole point.
I love the photo! I'm really curious about where you found resources to learn Cherokee. That's an interesting and worthwhile endeavor. Good luck!
@KristinaH13, My apologies for the delay in answering. I just had to step back to recover from the UK Covid strain, entirely.
Anyway, I'm a member at one of the At-Large Cherokee communities and our director got one of the other members, who had taken the online courses, to be our tutor for weekly practice. That's how I found out how to register for the online classes through the (Oklahoma) Cherokee Nation. If you go to their website, you can find those resources, along with downloadable flashcards, science photos with the words in Cherokee (like the words for skunk, squirrel, etc), and so forth.
You can attend the live courses there, or watch the recorded ones on their YouTube channel and then go back to the website to take the tests (if you're registered for the courses). That's what I did, because of the time difference.
The government decided to give all the language department the entire first quarter of this calendar year off with pay (many of them are elderly, and we don't want to lose any more native speakers), so those courses are set to resume/be able to register for them in about 2 weeks (the week of March 22nd).
I actually met a lady from China, when I was working seasonal summer hire at IKEA in 2019, who had taken the courses before she moved here for her job. She said she figured if she was going to come here, then she ought to make an effort to know one of the Native languages to this continent.
She said she found the syllabary similar enough to Simplified Mandarin that it was fairly easy for her. I am syllabary deficient (I had horrible problems with the IPA--International Phonetic Alphabet--during my Linguistics courses) and it has not been easy for me at all.
I start Cherokee 3 later this month, and I don't feel prepared at all. I haven't been able to study as reliably during the break. I had a daughter who had to get a radical mastectomy (at age 27) and then caught the new UK Covid from my youngest daughter (who works at the Mall---it was her 3rd time of it; twice with the original one and then the UK one). At least it wasn't during classes! I was thinking of repeating Cherokee 2 (which I could do, even though I passed), but my worst-case work scenario is to teach it at our local Bureau of Indian Education school, and I need to have the 3 certificates in order to do that.
You don't have to be Cherokee to take the courses. They are provided free by the Cherokee government, and all online so that you can learn from anywhere.
Wado for your question! All good health to you and yours!