Dminor wrote:Good to see people interested in Frisian here! Maybe we'll make it to a separate forum one day.
I've been studying Frisian for a long time, and am now at a near-native level. I have various books about and in the language, but my most important resource is my family, which exists almost entirely of Frisians! I'll be glad to help. My first help will be providing you all with an earlier thread of mine: http://home.unilang.org/main/forum/view ... hp?t=20057. If you subscribe before 2008 (so within four days!) you'll get free access to a lot of Frisian learning material for a month! Also, I've been posting all of my messages bilingually for half a year or so, in English and Frisian. I grew tired of that, partially because no one seemed to care about it, but I could start doing it again if you want.
Dminor wrote:I've been studying Frisian for a long time, and am now at a near-native level. I have various books about and in the language, but my most important resource is my family, which exists almost entirely of Frisians!
0stsee wrote:I don't really get it.
Your family is made up almost entirely of Frisians, yet you had to study it for a long time to reach a near-native level?
So your family had been speaking to you in another language?
0stsee wrote:I don't really get it.
Your family is made up almost entirely of Frisians, yet you had to study it for a long time to reach a near-native level?
So your family had been speaking to you in another language?
krix wrote:
My alma mater was actually the only university in Germany with a fully functional Friesian Department, with two permanent posts, one taken up by a Dutchman (who is a native speaker of West Friesian) and a Scotsman who speaks English, High German, Low German, High Danish, Low German and a variety of North Friesian dialects...
krix wrote:OK that should have read: English, High German, Low German, High Danish, Low Danish and a variety of North Friesian dialects
Mulder-21 wrote:
Question: What are these? I'm guessing that you means 'Rigsdansk' (for High Danish), and Low Danish means some dialect of Danish (like South Jutlandic)
Also, although I have no idea what needs to be done, we need to get a Frisian forum up! How many people are interested in learning Frisian? A quick user search yields 117 people that are interested in learning Frisian. If we can get some of these people to pst here, do you think we could get a Frisian forum? There aren't any active natives on UniLang, but Dminor and Leviwosc both speak it at an advanced level, so at least one of them could be a moderator. I could be a moderator; I have a lot of moderating experience and skills, but know nothing about Frisian.
ILuvEire wrote:Frisian would be pretty easy for an English speaker, no?
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