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księżycowy wrote:I will be shortly!
At the moment I have my hands full with other languages.
(An odd spot to put this thread, but I guess there is no better place, huh?)
I also purchased a book which has helped greatly. Unfortunately, the book adheres to an ideological separatist movement which I strongly oppose. Nonetheless, it's a good book.
księżycowy wrote:Cool, great to hear you're still going at it. As I'm still refreshing my Hebrew, I haven't started any Neo-Aramaic (or Biblical Aramaic for that matter) yet, but I still hope to eventually.
What book is that? With the scarcity of resources, I'd be interested to know more about any book(s) that is helpful in learning any dialect.
księżycowy wrote:I see. It was the book we were talking about before. I wasn't sure if you had found a new textbook or not.
księżycowy wrote:Yeah, I have both textbooks now, the introductory text and the grammar. They both seem fantastic in terms of grammar and vocabulary. I can't wait toget into them.
księżycowy wrote:Oh, don't get me wrong, no one textbook (or even two, as in this case) is enough in my opinion. But it's a (good?) start.
Nor is any textbook without its problems.
I guess I'm just happy that these textbooks do exist. Problems or not.
Anyway, I'm thankful for your insights into the textbook's strengths and weaknesses. It'll help me as I go through the text for sure.
Though admittedly it'll probably be a good little while before I start working on Neo-Aramaic. It'll probably be some time later next year at the earliest, I'm sorry to say.
n8an wrote:księżycowy wrote:Oh, don't get me wrong, no one textbook (or even two, as in this case) is enough in my opinion. But it's a (good?) start.
Nor is any textbook without its problems.
I guess I'm just happy that these textbooks do exist. Problems or not.
Anyway, I'm thankful for your insights into the textbook's strengths and weaknesses. It'll help me as I go through the text for sure.
Though admittedly it'll probably be a good little while before I start working on Neo-Aramaic. It'll probably be some time later next year at the earliest, I'm sorry to say.
That's cool. I'll be really happy just to know anybody else who's learning the language. I get all kinds of weird looks when I tell people I'm learning it, even from Assyrians! I also would love to have someone who knows the difficulties of learning this language. Natives of this language are often not educated in their language and have no idea how to explain things.
I do really enjoy this language and the culture associated with it. I've even been (kinda) dating an Assyrian, so that makes it even better
dawit20 wrote:I've made a post about it. I'm about to begin my journey learning a Syriac dialect. I just don't know whether to pick Suroyo (Western Syriac) or Assyrian/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic and which has more resources. If you know any good books for Assyrian and Chaldean, I'd love to know .
księżycowy wrote:I kind of answered most of your questions (piggybacking off of Saim) in your other thread.
Assyrian is a different language from Aramaic, afaik.
Most of the resources for Neo-Aramaic that I know about have already been discussed in this thread.
EDIT: Whoops, I was thinking of Akkadian, not Assyrian. Assyrian is an ethnic and locational designation, as opposed to a linguistic one, afaik. It does get confusing with all of these terms.
That's why it's termed as "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic", etc. It can also be used as a substitute for Akkadian. It depends on the context.
księżycowy wrote:Good, I was pretty close on then.
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