ProfDiana

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speaks: English

learns: Norwegian

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Goalie in training, TESOL instructor, aspiring world traveler, mom to a goalie and and defenseman. Can you tell I like hockey?

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Otsaliheliga We Are Grateful First Translation Attempt

Hopefully I can get the photo of the book to upload in the banner here. If not, I'll put a link to a resource for the photo, down below. I've found that the phrases used in this book, while
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Dec 6 - 2 min. read

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Ostaliheliga: We Are Grateful

Osiyo nigada! (Hello everyone, in Cherokee; pronounced: oh-see-yo knee-gah-dah) Yes, it's not Mandarin but it is a syllabary. I just can't figure out how to get the keyboard for the syllabary to work
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Dec 2 - 2 min. read

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I Finally Passed Cherokee 3!

Osiyo nigada! (Hello everyone!) I don't have the Cherokee syllabary font on my laptop, so phonetics it is. After months away from Journaly, I've finally finished Cherokee 3! I got a 90 on my final
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Nov 25 - 1 min. read

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Getting Back on Track Using Robin's Advice

(Photo by Tegan Mierle via Unsplash) Happy Cascadia Day to all my fellow Pacific Northwesterners!!! I haven't been on Journaly for two months, and have been feeling guilty. My second Covid shot
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May 18 - 1 min. read

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Book Club as a Beginning Norwegian Learner

This photo is what I feel like, reading Vindens Skygge, as a Norwegian language beginner. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so! Part of learning a language is not being timid, and being willing to
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Mar 8 - 1 min. read

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My Early Struggles in Cherokee Language

I still haven't figured out how to type on the computer with my syllabary keyboard, so I'll stick to just writing it out. . . which is actually the way that Cherokee is taught to those of us who
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Feb 21 - 3 min. read

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Reading My First Novel In Norwegian As a Complete Beginner

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
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Feb 21 - 1 min. read

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My Norwegian Language Adventure

Hei! Hvordan har du det? Bra, takk. That's about the extent of my Norwegian-off-the-cuff to humans (I can ask my Norwegian Forest Cat if he wants milk, tell him he's a handsome Forest Cat, etc., etc
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Feb 19 - 3 min. read

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Reclaiming the Language of My Mother's People

Osiyo! That's how you say 'hello' in Cherokee/Tsalagi. I see a challenge here, right off, because Cherokee is a syllabary, like Mandarin. I'll have to figure out how to get my Cherokee keyboard to
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Feb 19 - 2 min. read

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