@BarbaraNolan

First language is Nishnaabemwin, residential school survivor - living & loving life - each day. Wenesh geyaabi ge-kidyaamba? / What more can I say?

 Garden River, ON
barbaranolan.com
Joined May 2010
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It was with great honour that I accepted the post!
Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin@PaulJMeighan7 Dec 2020
Awesome news, @BarbaraNolan!
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Enh, mii go geyaabi maadiziyaanh!!
Deb Pine@DtPine28 Oct 2020
Mii go geyaabi maadiziyaanh... is this how a fluent speaker would say this
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Ayaangwaamzig!
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Pablo Román@langdreamer14 May 2020
Native speakers will almost never correct your speaking if your errors didn't impede communication. So get the input you need and don't rely on corrections!
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Ever used video games to learn a language? ⠀ ⠀ Jared Gimbel has focused on many minority, indigenous and endangered languages. He studied Greenlandic & went to Greenland to make sure his game was as authentic. An amazing language learner! youtu.be/nm6XdyPV-rw
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Pablo Román@langdreamer28 Apr 2020
How do we learn to swim? Children: Practice. Adults: Practice. How do we learn about history? Children: Read. Adults: Read. How do we learn a language? Children: Listen. Adults: Mmm, study grammar? What???
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Pablo Román@langdreamer29 Apr 2020
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" amzn.to/3cWzG3B so clearly shows the difference between the "slow thinking" we use when studying a language consciously, and the "fast thinking" that we need to be able to speak a language.
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Pablo Román@langdreamer22 Apr 2020
The best way to know that people will understand you speaking a foreign language? Acquire it. When you have acquired the grammar and vocab you're using you know people will understand you, because you're not just using some abstract concepts that you saw in a book.
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Pablo Román@langdreamer23 Apr 2020
Babies aren't better than you at learning a language. They just have no way to escape having great Comprehensible Input. If you set up your environment the same way you can learn even faster than them.
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Aapji maaba debwe!
Pablo Román@langdreamer20 Apr 2020
Do you want to learn a language as well as a child? Be a child. Forget what you know about subjects, verbs, predicates, conjugations... Just accept what you hear as what it is, and let the meaning be evident from the situation. Your brain will do the rest of the work.
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Some nishnaabemwin for facebook.com/barbara.nolan.9…
Aapji debwemgad Pablo ekdad!
Pablo Román@langdreamer16 Apr 2020
Things that you don't need to learn a language (and shouldn't stop you from learning it): access to native speakers, opportunities to speak it, to be young, to struggle, talent, textbooks, a school, to live in the country.
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Aaniish maanda anishnaabeg enji nsastaswaad?
Pablo Román@langdreamer17 Apr 2020
When you immerse yourself in the language every day, you don't need exams or tests, you know that you are improving. You know how many new words you're understanding today that you didn't understand last week.
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Pablo Román@langdreamer17 Apr 2020
When you immerse yourself in the language every day, you don't need exams or tests, you know that you are improving. You know how many new words you're understanding today that you didn't understand last week.
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Aapji gii gnaajwan nongwa wenaakshik pii epngishmok!
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Mii sa gii zhidaabaangowaanh oodi! So I drove there! Only to find out from the LCBO that it has been closed since last year! 😂🤣😅
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😂🤣😅 Ngii-waawnizhiwebiz nongwa! Funny thing happened to me today! Ta gwa miijmens bangii nga naadin oodi Echo Bay - ngii nendam! Thinks I take a ride to Echo Bay for a lil bit of groceries - I thought! Mii sa gii zhidaabaangowaanh oodi! So I drove there!
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Aapji go mno-kizhebawgad! Mzhakwad!
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Ganoowaamjigek!! view.vzaar.com/1158172/playe…
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Gdaa bbaa-wiijii’in ngoding! Gaa dash wii gwa ndowaasiig aabmag!
Deb Pine@DtPine8 Jan 2020
Ngii-paa-agamase memtigwaaki
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