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vijayjohn wrote:Welcome back, Mike!
Could I help you learn some Malayalam? Or maybe even help you with Tamil. I've been (sort of) trying to review some vocabulary and lines of poetry in Malayalam lately myself.
Michael wrote:I have been re-afflicted with the wanderlust bug for Dravidian as of late, and to a lesser extent for Indo-Aryan (w/Urdu). I've amassed enough of a variety of resources for Tamil, in particular, at this point by now in my life that I now have no excuse not to seriously (re-)pursue my study of the language. I did complete a whole 25-lesson intro course some 6-7 years ago focusing on the basics of Tamil grammar, for which I did handwritten exercises in a notebook that I have so far failed to locate (I don't want to give up on finding it tho). I'm starting out by going over that particular resource all the way from the beginning. I'm looking to eventually foray into Telugu, inshAllah!
OldBoring wrote:The default Dravidian languages are Tamil and Telugu.
dEhiN wrote:எப்படி சுகம்?
What resource did you use for Tamil 6-7 years ago? I remember you being interested.
Would you be up for forming a study group? I'd love to help you out and refresh stuff together.
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:Would you be up for forming a study group? I'd love to help you out and refresh stuff together.
I'd be up for one, too. It would be easier for me than like any other study group I'm part of.
vijayjohn wrote:OldBoring wrote:The default Dravidian languages are Tamil and Telugu.
News to me, I remember Meera pointing out that Telugu is one of the most underrated languages ever
OldBoring wrote:vijayjohn wrote:OldBoring wrote:The default Dravidian languages are Tamil and Telugu.
News to me, I remember Meera pointing out that Telugu is one of the most underrated languages ever
Well after all this is Unilang
Osias wrote:Oi, você por aqui!
vijayjohn wrote:Welcome back, Mike!
Could I help you learn some Malayalam? Or maybe even help you with Tamil. I've been (sort of) trying to review some vocabulary and lines of poetry in Malayalam lately myself.
dEhiN wrote:வணக்கம் மாயிக்கள், எப்படி சுகம்? What resource did you use for Tamil 6-7 years ago? I remember you being interested. Would you be up for forming a study group? I'd love to help you out and refresh stuff together.
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:எப்படி சுகம்?
This expression sounds so cute to my Malayalee ears. It almost sounds to me as if instead of asking "how are you?" before someone else says "fine," you asked, "How fine are you?"
księżycowy wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Would you be up for forming a study group? I'd love to help you out and refresh stuff together.
I'd be up for one, too. It would be easier for me than like any other study group I'm part of.
*raises hand*
Me! Me! Me!
(Even if I just pull a David, and do it to be a "cool kid".
Michael wrote:Osias wrote:Oi, você por aqui!
Oi! Sim, estou de volta mais uma vez.
Michael wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Could I help you learn some Malayalam? Or maybe even help you with Tamil. I've been (sort of) trying to review some vocabulary and lines of poetry in Malayalam lately myself.
I wouldn't be opposed to that in principle, but for now I must stay focused entirely on Tamil, at least until I get to a point of being able to comfortably use it. However, I wouldn't mind some links to any Malayalam or even Telugu songs you may recommend!
Michael wrote:வணக்கம்! நில்லநல்ல இருக்கிறேன், நீ எப்படி உனக்கு? I used a PDF resource, one of the first I had come across for the language 8 years ago. I didn't acquire Tamil Language in Context until much, much later. And sure, I'd be up for that!
dEhiN wrote:You can never be as "cool" as me!
(Also, looking at your signature, I can see that you've added some languages to your list! I have to say, I'm kinda jealous, especially seeing OE on there. What are you using for OE and when did you start learning it?)
Anyway, as for the study group, we have to pick a medium to use. We could form a study group here on UL in the South Asian languages board, or we could use a social media platform. Vijay, księżycowy and I are using Google Hangouts for the Japanese, Polish and German study groups that we've formed. Michael, would you be up for using that? Personally, I'd prefer Hangouts or maybe Whatsapp, though I'm find with forming a study group on here. What about Vijay and księżycowy? What do you two think?
dEhiN wrote:Michael wrote:Osias wrote:Oi, você por aqui!
Oi! Sim, estou de volta mais uma vez.
O quê significa "você por aqui" neste caso? Entendo "estou de volta mais uma vez".
Michael wrote:I wouldn't be opposed to that in principle, but for now I must stay focused entirely on Tamil, at least until I get to a point of being able to comfortably use it.
However, I wouldn't mind some links to any Malayalam or even Telugu songs you may recommend!
I didn't acquire Tamil Language in Context until much, much later.
And sure, I'd be up for that!
dEhiN wrote:vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:எப்படி சுகம்?
This expression sounds so cute to my Malayalee ears. It almost sounds to me as if instead of asking "how are you?" before someone else says "fine," you asked, "How fine are you?"
As far as I know, in Tamil, it means health.
Or, at least, asking eppadi suuham is like "how's your health."
I guess it's similar to (o) genki desuka in Japanese where genki can mean health in the context of the question but a response like genki desu just means "fine".
Michael wrote:வணக்கம்! நில்லநல்ல இருக்கிறேன், நீ எப்படி உனக்கு?
Casually, instead of fully saying irukkiREn, you could say irukka or irukkEn. The latter is more used in Indian spoken Tamil, though they I think nasalize the ending to something like irukkẼ.
I've never heard that used by Lankans, just irukka /ɪɾɯkːə/.
irukkIRAy can become irukkAy colloquially, but I'm not 100 percent sure of that.
*It's always been odd to me that the 2PL subject pronoun ends in ngaL, yet formally the 2PL person marker for verbs is rkaL but then colloquially it become nga(L).
Anyway, as for the study group, we have to pick a medium to use.
księżycowy wrote:Malayalam is superior.
OldBoring wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Linguaphile wrote:Both are intriguing - the Mandarin loans in Mongolian and the Mongolian placenames in China.
I'm sure they are, but I don't know anything about the Mongolian placenames in China.Urban Mongolian food is a bit different from traditional nomadic food, and both quite different from "Mongolian barbecue" which isn't even Mongolian. We used to have a restaurant locally that served бууз (Mongolian dumplings), цуйван (noodle stew) and sometimes тараг (yoghurt) or other Mongolian dishes, but also had the (Taiwanese-origin) enormous grill that is expected by Americanas when one mentions "Mongolian" food, even though it isn't actually Mongolian. And the restaurant in question also had Thai food. So kind of Mongolian-Taiwanese-Thai Asian fusion.
Yes, but what confused me was the way that I saw Mongolian food being characterized as just meat, meat, and more meat and Vegetables Are A Rarity In This Harsh Dry Climate How Dare You Expect To See Any At All You Foreign Beach Bonfire Scum. It looks like Mongolians really do eat some vegetables fairly often, just in small quantities with lots of meat. It also confused me that the Lonely Planet Mongolian Phrasebook said something like you can't get breakfast cereal in Mongolia, yet Saveur also claims that kimchi is everywhere in Mongolia. Seeing these videos, though, it makes some more cultural sense to me.
Not even Hohhot 呼和浩特?
Is the Lonely Planet written in the 90s? A lot of things have changed.
vijayjohn wrote:Yes, but what confused me was the way that I saw Mongolian food being characterized as just meat, meat, and more meat and Vegetables Are A Rarity In This Harsh Dry Climate How Dare You Expect To See Any At All You Foreign Beach Bonfire Scum. It looks like Mongolians really do eat some vegetables fairly often, just in small quantities with lots of meat.
Yasna wrote:Okay, I'm going to go spend the rest of my day on Hindi now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=056_kWI9x8k
vijayjohn wrote:regional variation for the word 'brother'
bhra in Punjabi, for example)
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