Hello my friends!
Wishing everyone a joyful holiday and new year!
Wanted to make a quick video about three cool language-related Christmas gifts I received this year.
One is the lovely Rosetta Stone...for Navajo! Yes, the Navajo Language Renaissance organization (their site is here) received a grant from Rosetta Stone to help revitalize the language and create their own version of this popular immersion software.
Too fun! Check out my opinion of the Rosetta Stone environment in the video.
Second was Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar by Claudia Ross and Jing-heng Sheng Ma. Needed a nice reference grammar for Chinese (my focus language, check out a lolzy video of me speaking it here), and I think this should do the trick.
Last but not least was a really cool introduction to the languages of the Pacific, suitably named Pacific Languages: An Introduction by John Lynch. Definitely the best resource for the amazing and understudied languages of the beautiful islands.
Enjoy the video!
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Below is the video or you can watch it at this link. Enjoy!
I wish I could get Christmas gifts like yours. I wanted to let you know about my blog; seeing how you are interested in learning indigenous languages. I have some resources that might help you continue learning and practicing your Navajo. I still continue to search for vague and lesser known resources on the internet as well as encourage other fluent and non-fluent speakers to create resources of their own. http://navajonow.wordpress.com or follow me @NavajoNow on Twitter. Best of wishes with your language endeavors.
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