I'm not Dine, but belagaana woman with a very good Dine friend that I work with. She has taught me much about the people and I've falllen in awe with the traditions and things that she has shared with me. I just want to say thank you for these lessons, doing what you can to keep your culture and language alive for new generations.
The explanation of how the "ł" sound works was very helpful. I'm using duolingo to learn Diné/Navajo, but they only have recorded .02% of the words... Pronunciation and repetition are incredibly important to learning any language. Ahéhee' 🙏
Talk about repetition I should be making more language videos but I haven't and I pray I will be doing that soon. Hugs always for your wonderful desire to learn Navajo. What a salute to you. Love and hugs. Navajo Grandma
I am 68 years young and was taken from my family and adopted as an infant. With no information to go on I am ever grateful to learn any/all true things about who I came from after Father/Mother. Thank you for this channel.
Hi grandma! I came across your Chanel because I’m writing an essay on the Navajo language for my anthropology linguistics class. I am so grateful for you and the knowledge you share with us 🤍 sending you love and a hug
Thank you so much. I'm from Louisiana and my granddaughters are Diné. So they get their Nalí trying to speak Diné with a southern drawl. LoL 🤣🤣🤣 I just love that you have these videos that helps save their language.
You are so welcome! You made me laugh. When I was in Japan, of course they had Britain as allies. So a lot of the British come to Japan and have intermarried, teach English to the Japanese. You have to laugh and giggle to hear a Japanese speak Nihongo(Japanese language) with an English accent. Eyebrow raising but it is common there. Sorry that is what you reminded me of. I want to add more language videos as I see the need is very great for those outside the NN and even within. Happy to help. But we keep it simple dimple. I don't want to go deep as I would rather these children and others to simple communicate and to enjoy and find that it is possible. It is when they return then their people will definitely sometimes crudely tell them how to say more. That is what they do to me even though I know how to speak. They get angry that I don't sound like a reservation Navajo with their drawl which does sound kind of not good. So never mind. I know what to do. Thank you. Navajo Grandma
This was awesome, and actually easier to pronounce than I’ve thought when seeing it written elsewhere. I’m a language nerd and it’s really cool seeing how the words for “similar” colors are kinda close to each other (Orange and yellow, purple and blue and green). Thank you for this lesson!
Sheep red,that's nice, I can see that visualising it like that makes it easier to remember.Navajo people should be in charge of naming paint shades,because asking for some sheep red or Saturday blue paint is fun.
Ahéheeʼ Navajo Grandma!! Very interesting that they all have the ł sound in them except pink. I learned a bit of Welsh and they have the same ł sound. Such an interesting sounding language. Thank you for the cards and your pronouncing so clearly.
Thank you so much Navajo Grandma! You are a blessing to those of us who were not taught our native language as children. Very grateful for your channel!
I loved today's lesson. I'll be reviewing it over and over to practice. Thank you Navajo Grandma. Your love for Diné Bizaad shines through. You're doing a great service keeping this beautiful language alive! Ayóó'ánííníshní.
Glad you like them! It is fun making them and hope you like to enunciate as that is what is part of the exercise in being able to say these words. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
My next videos will involve defining myself, a sober one, then excitedly moving towards Grandma shearing a sheep for you all. This is an opener with videos on the weaving loom, rugs, carding and spinning dowel with weaving accessories. Its getting exciting to learn more about Dine' textile. Please watch and learn. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I had heard it was more Finnish thus I conversed with some Finnish folks and sure enough I was so surprised. We talked and I listened to them and it was amazing to hear their enunciations and how the glottals were exact in so many words and how they had that thli sound. So interesting. Navajo Grandma
Shelley Ross as you subscribe and watch and learn from Navajo Grandma, you will always get a super hugs daily. Grandma loves you so. I tell you we have the cream of the crop here in our Navajo Grandma family. Love you always. Navajo Grandma
Your warmth really shines through in your teaching style, I was struggling through the pronunciation but your encouragement put me at ease and I had a lot of fun learning the names of the colors 😊 thank you so much for sharing diné bizaad with us
"What a yummie name!" As a child when Lucky Charms came out and we were eating our Kelloggs corn flakes, which we believed was bland instead of Frosty flakes and Lucky Charms. Great name with wonderful happy thoughts. Marshmallows in my brain. So yes, thank you for watching my video on enunciating colors in Dine' Bizaad. You did well I know it. As we listen we hear and our tongues and brains pick it up and we learn to say it phonetically. I always put my Navajo words phonetically which are just the way its sounds and not spelled correctly. It helps to say the words. Thank you for trying and being such a good Navajo Grandma subscriber. I have been gone and didn't answer all the questions. So now Grandma is a busy bee answering all her comments. I love to do this myself. I get to know you and that makes me happy and fills my soul with Hozho.. Keep up the great work, you know this is one of the hardest languages to speak but you can do it. Phonetically. Happy Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Thank you for the lesson and thank you for the hugs. This really gave my mouth a workout and my cheeks too because it made me smile a lot. Hugs to you too Grandma
Hi grandma, I only had trouble naming purple & pink in dine'. It's so nice to let little kids know the colors too. Thank you again grandma & love you..hugs & kisses!!😙
This is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing with us your amazing language. Im mexican and Ive learned a little bit of Nahuatl an indigenous language native from here, these languages are very valuable!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
The Silent Bean, I am pretty sure you are not silent. Love the Name tho. I am so proud of you for trying as consistently trying does make perfect. Just keep it simple. As you do, you will not frustrate your will power to learn, but keep empowering yourself to be successful. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma
Supersoap4, yes you can make the sounds. Remember grandma said, "she can hear you trying." If you are alone then gurgle away or whatever it is you sound like. Who cares? I don't. I love when I hear my grandkids try to say my Dine' Bizaad and it makes me giggle. So what, its fun fun fun. Enjoy supersoap4 and keep watching and learning. Proud of you for trying. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Learning how to create and intone sound is always challenging when learning a new language. The "slashed l" in the Dine Bizaad is actually pretty easy. Smile with your lips barely open, let the front of your tongue rest against your teeth, and put your tongue against the roof of your mouth-- NOW, just let air blow out around your tongue. Surprise! You can do it! Next is the glottal stop, like an apostrophe between two parts of the written word or phrase. Say the English words "Johnny earns" and "Johnny yearns". When you hear the difference, you hear the glottal stop. Shi'ma sani you are the best teacher ever. Sometime, have someone let us hear the beautiful "Rain Chant."
Nido Ahehee shi yazhi. Ahehee for watching and saying your colors. I had forgotten the color purple then it somehow popped into my head, thank goodness. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
@@NavajoGrandma its honestly like muscle memory , it's like i already know this language somehow, like its in my soul or something. i will continue to practice. oh and btw you are amazing. thanks again
@@christaprice5393 do you know why you think I am amazing? Because you recognize that same virtue is within you first & you recognize it in Grandma what is in you first. So first "you" are amazing & see that gift in others to speak it. I live you for who you are AMAZING!! Hugs from God to you and hugs from Grandma too. Navajo Grandma
Yá' át' ééh, Navajo Grandma, 'ahéheeh for these color words. I know them quite well already, but I am perplexed by the syntax: how do these adjectives behave when used 1/ attributively and 2/ predicatively ? In other words, what will be the difference between "A black bear" and "The bear is black" ? Shash łizhin can mean both ? Ch'il łitsxooí means "orange". Should I say Shash łizhiní for "black bear", and Shash łizhin for "The bear is black ?"
So this is the difference between left and right brain folks. There are linguists whom you an argue with or speak with, "I am not that person." Attributively: example sentence: A black bear. In this example, black is an adjective; it is describing the appearance of the bear. Because it is placed before the noun (bear), the word black is an attributive adjective. Shash łizhin Predicatively: example sentence: The bear is black. (The bear is the subject, is is the linking verb, black is the predicate adjective) Shash e' łizhin I keep my Dine' Bizaad simple. I sometimes say a noun, verb, etc., but I do not want to get into the semantics because #1 this is not an CLASS, it is learning to simply speak. I know, I know, you need to know the semantics but when you learned English as a child your mother didn't say this is a subject, a noun, or verb, but at school you did learn, at home you listen and you learned. Same here. I am not a Grammer teacher, I know while being in Japan, I listened, I heard, I enunciated, I learned, I never went over to say, "gee where did that subject go and what noun did you use Shima san." It was just understood and you practiced and learned. That is my world. There are Navajo teachers who really get into the semantics I would rather you go to them and enjoy learning in that fashion. I hope you understand. Here we follow and learn and sometimes we say this is a noun etc. I also hope I clarified the above about the black bear. Axhehee. Thank you for desiring to learn. Navajo Grandma
Just an fyi: when you say Shash 'eh łizhiní (eh is specifically speaking about the Shash(the bear). eh specifies any subject you are referring to and nothing else. So if you say Shash 'eh łizhiní (you are specifically referring or talking only about the bear) EH IS THE LINKING VERB, THE COLOR SPECIFIC TO THE BEAR) The other is A Black Bear. Read below.
Yá'át'ééh Navajo Grandma! Shiká íínílwodgo ahéheeh, baa ahééh nisin. Rolland yinishyé. Diné bizaad bíhoosh'aah. Diné bizaad shił nizhoni, ndi ayóo shił nantł'ah. Shí éí doo Bilagáana nishłįi da, France-di shighan. "Breton Grandpa" nishłį. You're perfectly right about children learning a language without bothering about grammar, ndi shí éí doo awéé' nishłįi da, tsosts'idiin dóó bi'aan dįį' shinááhai ! Irvy Goossen dóó Young & Morgan binaaltsoos bił 'naashnish. Most works on Navajo devote much space to the verb system and tend to neglect the other parts of speech like adjectives. Jó nizhóní, hágoónee ! @@NavajoGrandma
Hi Navaho Gramma! Can you pronounce the Diné word for jaguar for me? "Nashdoitsohłikizh" does the ł still make the same sound in the middle of the word?🤔
This is how you say Jaguar: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí (description of a carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America. Scientific name: Panthera onca. Here is how you say it phonetically: SHA-DI-AH-DI NASH-DEW-I-TSO THLI-KIZH-I-JEE I hope you can enunciate that? That above is called phonics. The way people spelled and wrote and spoke long ago. They wrote what they heard. Now if you had a missing tooth or teeth the phonics was wrong and if one was deaf even more trouble, then the ones with no teeth or missing teeth messed the word up and people heard words entirely wrong. Thus the words were not entirely correct and that is why we have problems with genealogy history of families that come out wrong at times. Enough. Navajo Grandma (Just kow this is the correct way to say JAGUAR)
Soo Yun Kim, well if I can say your name, you surely can pronounce the colors. Keep it simple, listen, hear, and just blurt it out. Sometimes even when we are alone and some folks are shy even when they are alone, just say it. It doesn't matter if its wrong at first, if you listen, you will start to hear clearly and boom, you will say the words perfectly. Have patience, remember, grandma says: "Patience is a virtue." Hugs from Navajo Grandma for trying and you will succeed.
@@NavajoGrandma Probably one of the reasons is I am not familiar with Ł or Tłʼ sound. I'll be coming to your channel and other Native American channel often to train my ears. Thank you for the reply. Have a wonderful day, Navajo Grandma.
I work with a Navajo lady and one thing I would like to do is say things in Navajo but I know that it would come out very wrong and I don't want to upset her or offend with my mispronunciation of words. One time I tried to say something in Navajo and she was correcting me. I don't know what word it was. Probably ice. She kept correcting me on it and I gave up. I'm a bit of a language enthusiast so it's not just Navajo I'm interested in. There are more languages. And because I'm Mexican, I'm also interested in the indigenous Mexican languages.
Your name doesn’t quite describe what a wonderful teachable person you are. I love that you were trying hard to enunciate and sound right. At times it will sound awkward but practice makes perfect, grandma knows. Speaking different languages is a gift and a blessing. I speak Japanese just to get by now, but in Japan it was different, I love the Japanese people. Grandma loves you too. Twoo Si Kazz (twooh-sih-khaz) grandmas phonetical way to pronounce are In parenthesis. This is cold water but also ice in Dine’ Bizaad. Hope that helps. Hispanics enunciate well. Love you. Navajo Grandma
I'm a Navajo but I never spoke Navajo because no one teaches me and only one of my family who only speak Navajo was my great grandma I only know how to say milk
I needed to hear this, you are just precious to speak so simply about your speaking Dine’ Bizaad. Glad you watched the Dine’ color video. Now you know more. Love you. Navajo Grandma
Well you know your Dine' language, but grandma learned it spelled this way. If I am wrong then a lot of folks are wrong too. I understand what you mean. Thank you for being so aware. Its wonderful. Navajo Grandma
I'm not Dine, but belagaana woman with a very good Dine friend that I work with. She has taught me much about the people and I've falllen in awe with the traditions and things that she has shared with me. I just want to say thank you for these lessons, doing what you can to keep your culture and language alive for new generations.
Thank you for being kind with appreciation & wisdom. Happy you have a dine" friend. Great news to share. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
The explanation of how the "ł" sound works was very helpful. I'm using duolingo to learn Diné/Navajo, but they only have recorded .02% of the words... Pronunciation and repetition are incredibly important to learning any language.
Ahéhee' 🙏
Talk about repetition I should be making more language videos but I haven't and I pray I will be doing that soon. Hugs always for your wonderful desire to learn Navajo. What a salute to you. Love and hugs. Navajo Grandma
I also came here from Duolingo. Much clearer and easier to follow in this video!
@@Canny-Octopus Well enjoy and continue to practice. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
I am 68 years young and was taken from my family and adopted as an infant. With no information to go on I am ever grateful to learn any/all true things about who I came from after Father/Mother. Thank you for this channel.
i also came here from duolingo. ahéheeʼ masani 🙏
Hi grandma! I came across your Chanel because I’m writing an essay on the Navajo language for my anthropology linguistics class. I am so grateful for you and the knowledge you share with us 🤍 sending you love and a hug
Wonderful! You should do so well. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I LOVE NAVAJO
Thank you and how wonderful. Hugs from Navajo Grandma. "axhehee" (thank you)
Thank you so much. I'm from Louisiana and my granddaughters are Diné. So they get their Nalí trying to speak Diné with a southern drawl. LoL 🤣🤣🤣 I just love that you have these videos that helps save their language.
You are so welcome! You made me laugh. When I was in Japan, of course they had Britain as allies. So a lot of the British come to Japan and have intermarried, teach English to the Japanese. You have to laugh and giggle to hear a Japanese speak Nihongo(Japanese language) with an English accent. Eyebrow raising but it is common there. Sorry that is what you reminded me of. I want to add more language videos as I see the need is very great for those outside the NN and even within. Happy to help. But we keep it simple dimple. I don't want to go deep as I would rather these children and others to simple communicate and to enjoy and find that it is possible. It is when they return then their people will definitely sometimes crudely tell them how to say more. That is what they do to me even though I know how to speak. They get angry that I don't sound like a reservation Navajo with their drawl which does sound kind of not good. So never mind. I know what to do. Thank you. Navajo Grandma
This was awesome, and actually easier to pronounce than I’ve thought when seeing it written elsewhere. I’m a language nerd and it’s really cool seeing how the words for “similar” colors are kinda close to each other (Orange and yellow, purple and blue and green). Thank you for this lesson!
Hi Pearl, loved your comment. What a trooper, learning and being a darn pretty language nerd. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Sheep red,that's nice, I can see that visualising it like that makes it easier to remember.Navajo people should be in charge of naming paint shades,because asking for some sheep red or Saturday blue paint is fun.
I just loved reading your comment. Excellent teaching comment. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
Ahéheeʼ Navajo Grandma!! Very interesting that they all have the ł sound in them except pink. I learned a bit of Welsh and they have the same ł sound. Such an interesting sounding language. Thank you for the cards and your pronouncing so clearly.
THANK YOU. Navajo Grandma
Thank you so much Navajo Grandma! You are a blessing to those of us who were not taught our native language as children. Very grateful for your channel!
You are sure welcome and thank you for being so receptive. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma (remember practice makes perfect)
I loved today's lesson. I'll be reviewing it over and over to practice. Thank you Navajo Grandma. Your love for Diné Bizaad shines through. You're doing a great service keeping this beautiful language alive! Ayóó'ánííníshní.
Pretty girl there you are again with your precious comments and oh, that ending is impressive. Love you too. Navajo Grandma
very glad these videos are available. invaluable educational content
Glad you like them! It is fun making them and hope you like to enunciate as that is what is part of the exercise in being able to say these words. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
My next videos will involve defining myself, a sober one, then excitedly moving towards Grandma shearing a sheep for you all. This is an opener with videos on the weaving loom, rugs, carding and spinning dowel with weaving accessories. Its getting exciting to learn more about Dine' textile. Please watch and learn. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I had heard it was more Finnish thus I conversed with some Finnish folks and sure enough I was so surprised. We talked and I listened to them and it was amazing to hear their enunciations and how the glottals were exact in so many words and how they had that thli sound. So interesting. Navajo Grandma
You are precious. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and beautiful language. I love you already and sure needed the hug!!
Shelley Ross as you subscribe and watch and learn from Navajo Grandma, you will always get a super hugs daily. Grandma loves you so. I tell you we have the cream of the crop here in our Navajo Grandma family. Love you always. Navajo Grandma
I must listen a few more time ..🥳💯💞💜🦅🌻💫love to the teacher 🤗 hug
It is learning to enunciate. Keep trying. Hugs. Navajo grandma
Lichxhi ❤
Red. Good job!
@@NavajoGrandma 🤣🤣 you know l like lichxi🤣
@@jo-oe9zg You look pretty in red!!
@@NavajoGrandma we both look awesome in lichxhi ..we shine ...😉💫
Your warmth really shines through in your teaching style, I was struggling through the pronunciation but your encouragement put me at ease and I had a lot of fun learning the names of the colors 😊 thank you so much for sharing diné bizaad with us
"What a yummie name!" As a child when Lucky Charms came out and we were eating our Kelloggs corn flakes, which we believed was bland instead of Frosty flakes and Lucky Charms. Great name with wonderful happy thoughts. Marshmallows in my brain. So yes, thank you for watching my video on enunciating colors in Dine' Bizaad. You did well I know it. As we listen we hear and our tongues and brains pick it up and we learn to say it phonetically. I always put my Navajo words phonetically which are just the way its sounds and not spelled correctly. It helps to say the words. Thank you for trying and being such a good Navajo Grandma subscriber. I have been gone and didn't answer all the questions. So now Grandma is a busy bee answering all her comments. I love to do this myself. I get to know you and that makes me happy and fills my soul with Hozho.. Keep up the great work, you know this is one of the hardest languages to speak but you can do it. Phonetically. Happy Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I definitely need more practice!!! LOL But so love learning!! Thank you!! 🙏🏻💙🥰
You are so welcome and I commend your teachable spirit. Practice makes perfect. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
You are so fun Navajo Grandma. Thank you.
Well you are fun too, that is why you believe I am fun. Happy thoughts. Navajo Grandma
Thank you for the lesson and thank you for the hugs. This really gave my mouth a workout and my cheeks too because it made me smile a lot. Hugs to you too Grandma
Great job and thank you Cristina for working so hard to enunciate these fun colors in the Dine’ Bizaad. I could hear you! Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing a little bit of your culture!
-Sarah
Glad you are watching grandma’s videos and hope you enjoyed enunciating the words well. Good job. Navajo Grandma
Excellent video!! Thank you for blessing us!!💓🙏🌺
You are so welcome. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma
Hi Grandma, your colors sound similar to our Nde language. Even so my tongue still is stubborn at times. Enjoy learning new things. thank you
Wonderful! Navajo Grandma
Yágo Dootłizh , let’s all hit that hitch-hiker thumb 👍🏽
LOL!! Hugs from Navajo Grandma
Hi grandma, I only had trouble naming purple & pink in dine'. It's so nice to let little kids know the colors too. Thank you again grandma & love you..hugs & kisses!!😙
If that the only problems you have, it’s amazing. Navajo Grandma
Enjoyed this so much, hugs back. Fun lesson. How about 1-10. Lol.
You really teach people, that's a good thing! Xoxo💞
Charlotte the 1-10 is on its way. Love that everyone is enjoying these micro mini lessons. They are fun. Navajo Grandma
Ya, right... Very challenging to pronounce. Awesome lesson however. Thanks so much! I am going to practice wholeheartedly. ❤️
Vera, you made me laugh. Practice makes perfect pretty girl. Navajo Grandma
This is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing with us your amazing language. Im mexican and Ive learned a little bit of Nahuatl an indigenous language native from here, these languages are very valuable!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Daniel, thank you for having such an appreciative heart. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I'm half Navajo or aka diné I believe I got it right I'm trying to learn the Navajo language.
The Silent Bean, I am pretty sure you are not silent. Love the Name tho. I am so proud of you for trying as consistently trying does make perfect. Just keep it simple. As you do, you will not frustrate your will power to learn, but keep empowering yourself to be successful. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma
My mouth doesn't want to make the sounds but it's fun to try and learn new things 😎
Supersoap4, yes you can make the sounds. Remember grandma said, "she can hear you trying." If you are alone then gurgle away or whatever it is you sound like. Who cares? I don't. I love when I hear my grandkids try to say my Dine' Bizaad and it makes me giggle. So what, its fun fun fun. Enjoy supersoap4 and keep watching and learning. Proud of you for trying. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Learning how to create and intone sound is always challenging when learning a new language. The "slashed l" in the Dine Bizaad is actually pretty easy. Smile with your lips barely open, let the front of your tongue rest against your teeth, and put your tongue against the roof of your mouth-- NOW, just let air blow out around your tongue. Surprise! You can do it!
Next is the glottal stop, like an apostrophe between two parts of the written word or phrase. Say the English words "Johnny earns" and "Johnny yearns". When you hear the difference, you hear the glottal stop.
Shi'ma sani you are the best teacher ever.
Sometime, have someone let us hear the beautiful "Rain Chant."
Aheehee shimasan!
Nido Ahehee shi yazhi. Ahehee for watching and saying your colors. I had forgotten the color purple then it somehow popped into my head, thank goodness. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
❤ l try again 😊 🤗
Practice makes perfect. Navajo Grandma
THANK YOU 😁!!!
You are so welcome and hope you can learn to enunciate these words and make them a part of your language. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
Awesome🙆♀️ thank u 🤗 now i can tell my grandma im learning lol
Hi Natasha, great job. I can hear you. You are a trooper for being willing to learn dear one. As your Gma I send you hugs for learning. Navajo Grandma
Thank you Grandma. How do you say double rainbow in the sky?
Naki Nááts'íilid ha'naa ninít'i̹',
💜😉
Thank you so much for sharing this lesson. I had a great time trying to say the colors!! 😊💕
Karen, proud of you for trying and I heard you enunciating the words. Great job!! Smile. Navajo Grandma
Awesome
Do you remember your colors girl??
Ahehee, Grandma!
Ahehee back to you for watching and learning. Navajo Grandma
So kool👍
Thank you. Grandma
thank you
You're welcome. Glad you are trying to learn. Practice does make perfect. LOL! Navajo Grandma
@@NavajoGrandma its honestly like muscle memory , it's like i already know this language somehow, like its in my soul or something. i will continue to practice. oh and btw you are amazing. thanks again
@@christaprice5393 do you know why you think I am amazing? Because you recognize that same virtue is within you first & you recognize it in Grandma what is in you first. So first "you" are amazing & see that gift in others to speak it. I live you for who you are AMAZING!! Hugs from God to you and hugs from Grandma too. Navajo Grandma
@@christaprice5393 👌😎💗💗💗 Wonderful. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Ahèhee'! grandma
Thank you for watching and supporting grandma. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
That's hard. 😂😂😂😂
Well yes and it is why I say practice makes perfect. Glad you tried and thank you again. Navajo Grandma
Yá' át' ééh, Navajo Grandma, 'ahéheeh for these color words. I know them quite well already, but I am perplexed by the syntax: how do these adjectives behave when used 1/ attributively and 2/ predicatively ? In other words, what will be the difference between "A black bear" and "The bear is black" ? Shash łizhin can mean both ?
Ch'il łitsxooí means "orange". Should I say Shash łizhiní for "black bear", and Shash łizhin for "The bear is black ?"
So this is the difference between left and right brain folks. There are linguists whom you an argue with or speak with, "I am not that person."
Attributively: example sentence: A black bear. In this example, black is an adjective; it is describing the appearance of the bear. Because it is placed before the noun (bear), the word black is an attributive adjective. Shash łizhin
Predicatively: example sentence: The bear is black. (The bear is the subject, is is the linking verb, black is the predicate adjective) Shash e' łizhin
I keep my Dine' Bizaad simple. I sometimes say a noun, verb, etc., but I do not want to get into the semantics because #1 this is not an CLASS, it is learning to simply speak. I know, I know, you need to know the semantics but when you learned English as a child your mother didn't say this is a subject, a noun, or verb, but at school you did learn, at home you listen and you learned. Same here. I am not a Grammer teacher, I know while being in Japan, I listened, I heard, I enunciated, I learned, I never went over to say, "gee where did that subject go and what noun did you use Shima san." It was just understood and you practiced and learned. That is my world. There are Navajo teachers who really get into the semantics I would rather you go to them and enjoy learning in that fashion. I hope you understand. Here we follow and learn and sometimes we say this is a noun etc. I also hope I clarified the above about the black bear. Axhehee. Thank you for desiring to learn. Navajo Grandma
Just an fyi: when you say Shash 'eh łizhiní (eh is specifically speaking about the Shash(the bear). eh specifies any subject you are referring to and nothing else. So if you say Shash 'eh łizhiní (you are specifically referring or talking only about the bear) EH IS THE LINKING VERB, THE COLOR SPECIFIC TO THE BEAR) The other is A Black Bear. Read below.
Yá'át'ééh Navajo Grandma! Shiká íínílwodgo ahéheeh, baa ahééh nisin.
Rolland yinishyé. Diné bizaad bíhoosh'aah. Diné bizaad shił nizhoni, ndi ayóo shił nantł'ah.
Shí éí doo Bilagáana nishłįi da, France-di shighan. "Breton Grandpa" nishłį.
You're perfectly right about children learning a language without bothering about grammar, ndi shí éí doo awéé' nishłįi da, tsosts'idiin dóó bi'aan dįį' shinááhai !
Irvy Goossen dóó Young & Morgan binaaltsoos bił 'naashnish. Most works on Navajo devote much space to the verb system and tend to neglect the other parts of speech like adjectives.
Jó nizhóní, hágoónee ! @@NavajoGrandma
Hi Navaho Gramma! Can you pronounce the Diné word for jaguar for me? "Nashdoitsohłikizh" does the ł still make the same sound in the middle of the word?🤔
This is how you say Jaguar: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí (description of a carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America. Scientific name: Panthera onca. Here is how you say it phonetically:
SHA-DI-AH-DI NASH-DEW-I-TSO THLI-KIZH-I-JEE
I hope you can enunciate that? That above is called phonics. The way people spelled and wrote and spoke long ago. They wrote what they heard. Now if you had a missing tooth or teeth the phonics was wrong and if one was deaf even more trouble, then the ones with no teeth or missing teeth messed the word up and people heard words entirely wrong. Thus the words were not entirely correct and that is why we have problems with genealogy history of families that come out wrong at times. Enough. Navajo Grandma (Just kow this is the correct way to say JAGUAR)
Thank YOU!
Keep learning and watching. It’s simple dimple. Hugs for hanging in there. Navajo Grandma
OMG... I can mimic foreign language words quite well and these are HARD! I am not even remotely close.
Soo Yun Kim, well if I can say your name, you surely can pronounce the colors. Keep it simple, listen, hear, and just blurt it out. Sometimes even when we are alone and some folks are shy even when they are alone, just say it. It doesn't matter if its wrong at first, if you listen, you will start to hear clearly and boom, you will say the words perfectly. Have patience, remember, grandma says: "Patience is a virtue." Hugs from Navajo Grandma for trying and you will succeed.
@@NavajoGrandma Probably one of the reasons is I am not familiar with Ł or Tłʼ sound. I'll be coming to your channel and other Native American channel often to train my ears. Thank you for the reply. Have a wonderful day, Navajo Grandma.
I work with a Navajo lady and one thing I would like to do is say things in Navajo but I know that it would come out very wrong and I don't want to upset her or offend with my mispronunciation of words. One time I tried to say something in Navajo and she was correcting me. I don't know what word it was. Probably ice. She kept correcting me on it and I gave up. I'm a bit of a language enthusiast so it's not just Navajo I'm interested in. There are more languages. And because I'm Mexican, I'm also interested in the indigenous Mexican languages.
Your name doesn’t quite describe what a wonderful teachable person you are. I love that you were trying hard to enunciate and sound right. At times it will sound awkward but practice makes perfect, grandma knows. Speaking different languages is a gift and a blessing. I speak Japanese just to get by now, but in Japan it was different, I love the Japanese people. Grandma loves you too. Twoo Si Kazz (twooh-sih-khaz) grandmas phonetical way to pronounce are In parenthesis. This is cold water but also ice in Dine’ Bizaad. Hope that helps. Hispanics enunciate well. Love you. Navajo Grandma
I'm a Navajo but I never spoke Navajo because no one teaches me and only one of my family who only speak Navajo was my great grandma I only know how to say milk
I needed to hear this, you are just precious to speak so simply about your speaking Dine’ Bizaad. Glad you watched the Dine’ color video. Now you know more. Love you. Navajo Grandma
I saved it to practice
Hi Joyce, good for you. Practice does make perfect. Wonderful. Navajo Grandma
Why dinilchii is spelled without glottal stop after “ch” sound? I can hear you pronounced it as dinilch’ii.
Well you know your Dine' language, but grandma learned it spelled this way. If I am wrong then a lot of folks are wrong too. I understand what you mean. Thank you for being so aware. Its wonderful. Navajo Grandma
Aaaaaas😅
Some of the words are not easy to pronounce if that is why you are saying Aaaaaaas. Keep trying. Navajo Grandma
when i pronounce and I think when we do that / noise i think we're hissing-
Keep hissing as practice makes perfect. Love you for trying. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
ahéheeʼ
Thank you and you are always welcome. Navajo Grandma