How to improve my Somali language skills?

surrender · Post by **surrender** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:10 pm

welcome Euro_Somali. my advice would be speak somali with your family, and fellow somali friends, tr hard even if do bad, just try even if you suck at it, just iska ja jabso (<you'll understand what means soon ). hang about in somali forums, and prolly give a visit to your home country of somalia.

Babygirl- · Post by **Babygirl-** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:56 pm

Welcome Euro, we will teach you somali..

Ka darag · Post by **Ka darag** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:05 pm

BEST WAY IS TO GO THERE!!!!!!!!

AND ALSO, PRACTISE WITH PPL EVEN IF THEY TAKE THE PISS!

Post by **Cinque Mtume** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:30 pm

Euro_Somali wrote:
Somali has different types of dialects? Never knew this, I thought it was a very unified language, what is the most widely understood dialect?

Af Reer Mudug, it's the accent spoken by the higher class Somalis.

Judging from your Somali sentence, you're actually quite good. One visit to Somalia for a two-month stay and you'll be fine.

Macaaney_1991 · Post by **Macaaney_1991** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:06 pm

Euro_Somali welcom

you come to the right place

now buugh iyo qalinn soo qapso

Euro_Somali · Post by **Euro_Somali** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:11 pm

Hi again,

I’ve been studying from a book called 'The Somali Language' by C.R.V. Bell published in 1953 which was recommended by a friend.
Somali grammar is so easy I was astonished by it (or as the English would call it 'peanuts') compared to the German or Icelandic grammar systems which I both mastered. I noticed that Somali is actually a very limited language concerning the vocabulary (there are no more than about ~30.000 words, and a lot of modern words are just English loanwords or simply are explanatory) but the tricky part are the enormous amount of idioms or how one word could mean several things.

Two things I never really knew before reading some Somali grammar books, Somali is such a nomad’s language many words and idioms have nomadic roots and the Somali language has no official spelling, which I found very odd! The script is purely phonetic which makes things easy.

Wish me the best of luck on my endeavor to concur the Somali language!

Cali_Gaab · Post by **Cali_Gaab** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:23 pm

What tribe is your father?

In order to get help from the right people we need to know what he is.

Euro_Somali · Post by **Euro_Somali** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:33 pm

Most Somali people are pretty good with their language (fluent, vocab etc.) but are so bad in the grammar department, just one week of studying it and looking at some Somali websites makes your eyes hurt (as in that they're bad in their own language). You could most likely find no more than 50 people in the whole of London who could write Somali in a correct matter.

I don't think my dad's clan has anything to do with this subject, but if you are that curious he is from the Darod clan.

Ka darag · Post by **Ka darag** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:35 pm

Macaaney_1991 wrote:Euro_Somali welcom

you come to the right place
now buugh iyo qalinn soo qapso

QAPSO U KNO...I KNO MY SOMALI IS BAD BUT URS IS JUS SHOCKING

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:36 pm

Euro_Somali wrote:Most Somali people are pretty good with their language (fluent, vocab etc.) but are so bad in the grammar department, just one week of studying it and looking at some Somali websites makes your eyes hurt (as in that they're bad in their own language). You could most likely find no more than 50 people in the whole of London who could write Somali in a correct matter.

I don't think my dad's clan has anything to do with this subject, but if you are that curious he is from the Darod clan.

You're right.

Most Somalis tend to believe that oral proficiency is all that really matters. My writing is rudimentary, but I speak like a poet.

Cali_Gaab · Post by **Cali_Gaab** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:38 pm

Euro_Somali wrote: I don't think my dad's clan has anything to do with this subject, but if you are that curious he is from the Darod clan.

Then i suggest you seek help from them.

The correct somali is spoken by them

Ka darag · Post by **Ka darag** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:41 pm

GO TO UR LOCAL SOMALI COMMUNITY CENTRE.. THEY HAVE LESSONS FOR THOSE CLOSE TO BEING SENT BACK FOR DHAQAN CELIS

Euro_Somali · Post by **Euro_Somali** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:03 pm

Ka darag wrote:GO TO UR LOCAL SOMALI COMMUNITY CENTRE.. THEY HAVE LESSONS FOR THOSE CLOSE TO BEING SENT BACK FOR DHAQAN CELIS

These books will help me out, elementary school children books.

You have to start somewhere.

Ka darag · Post by **Ka darag** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:11 pm

Euro_Somali wrote:
Ka darag wrote:GO TO UR LOCAL SOMALI COMMUNITY CENTRE.. THEY HAVE LESSONS FOR THOSE CLOSE TO BEING SENT BACK FOR DHAQAN CELIS

These books will help me out, elementary school children books.

You have to start somewhere.

looooooooooool i recognise the dictionary....

Euro_Somali · Post by **Euro_Somali** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:15 pm

You have it too? I think you could find it anywhere.

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