Hi guys!
I'm back with a random little vloggish video about a couple of things — sort of tying up loose ends.
So, this spring break I had the opportunity to travel to Curaçao, in the Caribbean ABC Islands. It was a lovely trip; the island and its beaches, towns, and other attractions are beautiful.
The language that is spoken in the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and others), or the now-diffused Netherlands Antilles, is Papiamentu (also spelled Papiamento in Aruba).
Papiamentu is a cute little creole, spoken by the around 330,000 in the region, based on Romance languages and the English and Dutch influence on the history of the islands. (More at Wikipedia and more at Omniglot)
So anyway, I had become interested in this not-widely-known-but-very-cool language about 3 years ago (as I do...), and had always thought it would be cool to learn it, let alone go to Curaçao.
When I found out earlier that our family had decided on Curaçao as a destination, I was so thrilled and did kind of a crash course on Papiamentu using the Papiamentu Textbook by E. R. Goilo (here and here on Amazon) that I had purchased awhile back.
I also started a blog called iPapiamentu, which I began to write in eagerly up until and through the majority of my trip to Curaçao.
However, as fun Internet projects often do, the blog kind of died down and I never got to do my close-up post on the trip, or the post on the books I had purchased while there.
Long story short, I really wanted to kind of bring my blog back to life, and also talk about the lovely language books I got at the bookstore, so I figured it would be awesome to make a vid here at Brian on Language.
By the way, I was inspired by R. K. Harrison of Papiamentu-Tur-Dia to not only make the blog, but to make this video tonight, from the comment sent to me.
Hope you guys enjoy it; I know it's long, but, I do a little review on the books :D! Fun, right?
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Below is the video or you can watch it at this link. Enjoy!
P.S. - Again, shout out to R. K. Harrison for the comment and for reading my blog before! You're awesome!
P.P.S. - I'm posting this vid down at iPapiamentu! Be sure to check it out! Thanks guys.
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