Greenlandic, Inuktitut

[lusentoj]

Hey, I've just started trying to learn Greenlandic and would really like a friend who could help me out (fluent speaker or fellow learner). Considering they're all just dialects of each other, if you know Inuktitut or something and I could learn that for a while then switch to Greenlandic afterwards, I'd still be really thankful.

So far I've been taking suffix meanings from Inupiaq, grammar lessons from Inuktitut and then practice material / dictionaries from Greenlandic and trying to piece everything together while only really having newspaper articles for practice. It's going really, really slowly! Even if you can't help, if you have friends you can ask or something I'd be really grateful! I'm very open to using other sites, Email or even snail-mail (in case you can only find someone's grandma) for communication too.

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[steorra]

I can't help much - I've never really studied any form of Inuktitut. But I think it's neat that you're studying it.

There's audio in a couple Inuktitut dialects available from CBC. It looks like it has news video in Inuktitut as well.

Might help for getting some of the sound of the language into your head, even if you can't understand much of it yet.

(Perhaps there's a Greenlandic audio source out there too, I'm just not familiar with the resources.)

[lusentoj]

Thanks! Luckily enough, there's Greenlandic news over at http://knr.gl/kl and nowadays they also put up all their news videos on Youtube, and I've found that the written matches the spoken so well that if you know a word you'll understand it immediately when you hear it... but the problem is somehow learning those words lol!

These languages are SO easy it's ridiculous (0 irregular verbs, only 3,000-4,000 unique words in the actual language so as soon as you learn a word you find it everywhere, great spelling system etc) and yet the learning materials and dictionaries are so awful it makes it really difficult. I mean, to illustrate some of the trouble I've had, the word "walk" appears constantly and yet the dictionary told me it meant something like "enter"...