Duolingo Progress with Spotlight on German

 I am making progress with Dutch, Italian, Zulu, Yiddish, German, Welsh, Chinese, Navajo

Can you recognise any words that I learned?

Can you translate any of these words to English or your target language?

I first learned German in early high school.  I enjoyed the run of the words and the way longer words are made. I struggle with the gender of nouns and the verb cases like dative.

German -	Weihnachten ist wunderbar

Part of speech	Translation
	English - Christmas is wonderful

 Reflection: I love that wunderbar has the word wonder in it.  It reminds me that English is in fact a Germanic language when it doesn't feel very close it it sometimes.  I find lots of similar words in Romance languages likes Italian and French.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - wonderful German - Weihnachten Danish - jul Dutch - Kerstmis Swedish- Jul Norwegian - jul Yiddish - ניטל nitl Italiano - natale  Francais - Noël Romanian-tu Haitian Creole - Nwèl Esperanto - Kristnasko Latin-Nativitatis Welsh - Nadolig Irish - Nollag Scottish Gaelic - Nollaig Zulu - Ukhisimusi Hawaiian - Kalikimaka Swahili-Krismasi Czech - Vánoce Hungarian-Karácsony Polish-Boże Narodzenie Ukranian-Різдво Rizdvo Turk-Noel Indonesian - Natal Japanese-クリスマス Kurisumasu Korean -크리스마스 keuliseumaseu Hindi -क्रिसमस krisamas Vietnamese- Giáng sinh Greek- Χριστούγεννα Christoúgenna Russian Рождество Rozhdestvo

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Duolingo Progress with Navajo & Hawaiian

 Spotlight on Navajo

I have been slowly working on Navajo, a native American language.  I love that Duolingo is including endangered languages as well as commonly spoken language at have lots of speakers as a second language. I am looking forward to when Duolingo adds Maori soon.

Navajo - shizhe'é hóló (a dad I have)

Part of speech holo	Translation
	English - I have a dad.

 Reflection: 'holo' goes at the end of the sentence.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - father German Deutsch- Vater Danish Dansk- far Dutch Nederalnds- vader Swedish Svenska- vader Norwegian Norsk bokmål - far Italian Italiano - padre  French Francais - père Romanian Română-Tată Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyen- papa Esperanto - patro Latin-pater Welsh Cymraeg- tad Irish Gaeilge- athair Scottish Gaelic Gaeilge- athair Zulu isisZulu- ubaba Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi- makuakāne Swahili Kiswahili-baba Czech čeština- otec Hungarian Magyar-apa Polish Polski-ojciec Turk Türk-baba Indonesian Türk - ayah Japanese 日本Ni hon-お父さんOtōsan Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 아버 abeoji Hindi हिन्दी hindee पिता pita Yiddish יידיש eydish -פאטער fater Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-батько batʹko Vietnamese Tiếng Việt-cha Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- πατέρας patéras Russian Русский Russkiy отец otets

   Spotlight on Hawaiian

I first tried Japanese in year 6 at primary school.  My older sister was learning it at high school and later during her university. I was homeschool by my mum that year.  I found her hiragana flash cards to learn while I was sitting in the splits.  Trying to multi task, so I would be distract from the discomfort of stretching my legs to deepen my split while sitting on a pile of phone books with sharp corners.

I can see now that I am in my thirties the knowledge has stayed with me, so I have remembered the first part of hiragana and now need to work on the next years with the double lines ( i think they are called tentens) and the little circles used to make the other syllables like ta -> da, and ka -> ga etc.

Hawaiian - He kumu'o Kéhau.

English - Kehau is a teacher.

 Reflection: I wonder if the name goes at the end of the sentence because the teacher is the subject.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - teacher German - Deutsch - Der Name Danish Dansk- navn Dutch Nederalnds- naam Swedish Svedska- kaka Norwegian Norsk Bookmål- Navn Italian Italiano - nome  French Français - Nom Romanian Română-Nume Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyen - non Esperanto - nomo Latin-nomen Welsh  Cymraeg- enw Irish Gaeilge - ainm Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig na h-Alba - ainm Zulu -isisZulu igama Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi - inoa Swahili Kiswahili -jina Czech čeština - název Hungarian Magyar-név Polish-Polski Nazwa Turkish Türk --isim Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia- nama Japanese-日本Ni hon 名前Namae Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 이름ileum Hindi हिन्दी hindee -नाम naam Yiddish יידיש eydish- נאָמען nomen Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-назва nazva Vietnamese Tiếng Việt- Tên Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- όνομα ónoma Russian Русский Russkiy имя imya

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