Na'vi Lesson 1: Vowels and Ejectives

[GeneticKH]

Where is this language necessary?

[srslygtfomeyn]

You are my hero<3

[alvaro39038]

I'm brazilian, and I was studying Na'vi and realized it is easier for a person who speaks Portuguese, learning Na'vi than one who speaks English, so if you want to learn Na'vi, learn Portuguese. :-)

[alvaro39038]

@alvaro39038 HA HA HA very FUNNY !!!! i'm kidding portuguese is so hard to learn, but if u want to learn Na'vi more Fastly, Well...

[westarrr]

The way you pronounce Kaltxì, makes me wonder, whether you pronounce it like Kältxì, or just right,

[AntonioBushey]

that was cool mea do more

[MaiHelamoon]

Please do more!

[abcxyz1121998]

Vowels like in Vietnamese

[Pvinh71]

@abcxyz1121998 I'm surprised too. It sounds like 100% Vietnamsese

[MrBluesky1245]

I beleive it is pronounced "Caltee" but with the tx with that pop to it.

[marekiller8]

I don't know the slightest bit about Na'vi, but the last vowel is pronounced as in put. Also, the first vowel's IPA character was wrong. Good job overall, though.

[ImagineHuZhou]

Vowels seem to follow standard Latin sounds common with many Euro languages and methods for Romanizing many others languages worldwide too.

[eejmensenikbenhet]

It is simply great that you want to teach people this beautiful language, but when you do so, please do it good. Expecially when you make a video about pronounciation in Na'vi, you have to get the edjectives right. Practise some more and keep making videos!

[TheAnimewatchergirl]

very nice! jood job!

[nigihayami6]

i think this was a very good introduction video to this language and for those who really want to learn na'vi, it is great help.Thank to truejournals for making this.I'm actually an spanish speaker from the country Chile in south america.

[gp680]

yes it is just think of it as kaltxeh silent h like (e)xample.

[gp680]

kal-titty what the hell Ha

[MrCollin131]

wow you guys are suck jerks hes wicked kool for learning an awsome new language. your awsome truejournals :D

[RodgieTvTube]

wtf? your name is truejournals???? your parents must be high while naming you....no I'm just kidding...............

[Chris3141592]

Why? Even assuming you could learn to speak it fluently and perfectly, what use is it to you?

[TheMossad921]

I honestly can not think of a more useless thing to spend my time doing. That movie was a absolutely terrible it took pochantus and literally replaced the words with his own. JS=John Smith JS=jake sully. word for word copy

[arcticboy93]

its really easy if you have learned Inuit Syl'ix and spanish

[Delicious921]

The vowels sound Dutch.

[YTMrVulcan]

@Delicious921 I am Dutch, and I agree with you.

[twittagra]

it's easier if your first language is spanish ;)

[M2PGenocide]

this language is so much easier to learn if you are either

A) out of breath

B) smoking 4 packs a day.

[sakuraxxkinomoto10]

I'm Brazilian, the vogals are similars to our pronunciation! Like: A, E, I, O, U are identical! ^^

[YTMrVulcan]

"Ejectives"? Don't you mean "adjectives"?

[zzombatt]

@YTMrVulcan No, ejectives, or ejective consonants are basically beat-boxed k, t and p in na'vi.

[plzforgiveme987]

@YTMrVulcan no idiot freakin look up adjectives dumb fck

[YTMrVulcan]

@plzforgiveme987 There's no need for such rude language.

[SwevenHannibal]

Your ejectives are wrong, ejectives are made pumping your glottis upwards. Check "Velar ejective" and "Bilabial ejective" on Wikipedia, there are nice sound files showing how ejectives work there.

[Romulaan]

more! Tumbs up for more!!! :o

[TireaAean]

my Eywa his Pronunciation of Kaltxì is WAY off O.O

[TireaAean]

my Eywa his Pronunciation of Kaltxì is WAY off O.O

[MrKvok]

Love how there suddenly was 10 navi-learning-videos, and they all promissed to make more... no one ever did

[thefeyguy]

Very good lesson. I loved it. Just one comment, you have ejective sounds (not as phonemes, just as phonetic variants) of T, P and K in English when they are in final position in a word. Cool

[csibszi]

thanks you saved my life, since I missed this lesson at phonetic course, so now it makes a lot more sense to study these at IPA that I know what are these actually

[bBlaF]

this sound is particularly difficult for people who have only ever spoken one of the romance languages. i hope to see more from you soon.

Atra esterni ono thelduin.

[bBlaF]

very nice. only thing is that with ejectives, the point is to create a pause in the sound. the only example in english is the space in "uh oh". it is done by closing the throat with the back of the tongue, similar to pronouncing the plosive "k", but in ejectives the contact is made in the throat rather than in the mouth. done more heavily than it is when speaking Na'vi, a gulping sound occurs. these are the same muscles that are used to swallow.

[rockstar7809]

this could come handy when i pick out an Avatar costume for halloween!!!!!

[pxiedust08]

You're cute.

[imahippie000]

thx man. this video really helped me alot. cant wait for ur other vids

[ChapterFourBand]

when does the new part come?

[Evilshakra12]

i love it

[Dotszor]

Thumb up if you came here via the CounterStrike team Na'Vi

[Ilamarea]

What is a Vowel?... And what is an Ejective? :D

[adamborg1]

This is so cool!

[jonathan1nonly]

Are u guys serious

[weasleymogul]

We will strike in the name of the honorable Na'vi! For Eywa!!!

[MaStErPhReSh333]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[1Tihawnue]

Thank you for your video. It is really helpfull TO ME.

I WILL use your video's because it will make me learn it faster.

I APPRICIATE UR WORK AND EFFORT.

The video's are especially helpfull because I'm dutch and everything is in EN-NV.

I haven't seen much NL-NV. And I learn faster by doing than just reading. Hearing the pronunciation of words just makes me feel Tweti!!

So please keep up the good work.

Irayo!!

[greasemonkey43123]

DFTBA

[Grdankl]

nerds together! attack the non-belivers! FOR EYWA!

[peacebuntou]

he looks like a hobbit

[iantrobok]

muy bueno tu video, es motivador para seguir aprendiendo, me gustaria que subieras videos con todos lo temas de pronunsiacion, desde chile, del clan ticonhalmapu, celebrando el bicentenario, sobreviviendo al más grande terremoto de la historia, y en mision de salvar a los 33 mineros atrapados, me despido

[iantrobok]

very good your video, is a motivator to continue learning, I'd like you up videos with everyone pronunsiacion issues, from chile, clan ticonhalmapu, celebrating the bicentennial, surviving the greatest earthquake in history, and mission of saving the 33 miners trapped, I say goodbye

[lumaix]

nerds

[docweasel]

"ejectives?" If you are going to teach even a faux "language", it would be nice if you learned how to spell English words and grammar terms first.

By the way, who cut your fuckin' hair?

[ubernathe]

@docweasel ejectives are part of the grammatical structure of language. numnuts.

[docweasel]

@ubernathe

he misspelled it

anyway, anyone who gives a shit about navi has shit between his ears, which would include you, asshole.

[ubernathe]

@docweasel i don't think you understand. he is not trying to spell adjectives. im not really that interested, i just wanted to see a video of how people learn, but who is the real asshole? people who just want to learn differant stuff or show interests in differant things, or a guy who judges people and insults them for being differant. i think 99% of people would agree your a major prick.

[attilagoijra54]

that vowels are that letters in dutch

[PureBlackWolf]

@attilagoijra54

Yeah, they all are xD

[doryban129]

No more lessons?

:(

[adri2771]

paint youf fuckin face in blue, man!!! love

[Crunchbite14]

This was good, but you pronounced Kxaltxi wrong. Not to mention the ejectives seem to have more of a pop to them when spoken.

Still, this was a good video to watch if you're just starting to pick up the language. :)

[ScarletFevr]

I would love to learn it!

[ThePoeticAngel]

please make more! :) I really would love to learn this.

[YoungVampire92]

very nice.i love Na'vi so much.its sounds so nice.

[mikeskatez211]

Awesome Vid... cant wait to learn more n more..

[TigraSoul]

Love the pace of the lesson. Will definitely come back for more.

[RustyAs]

Thanks, these lessons will be very useful if I ever go to Pandora

[lkarsanyi]

I think it' s useful. I' d like to see more.

[SadisticFruitcake]

You should make more! I'm really interested and I'm sure loads of other people are. I'd prefer to learn the Na'vi tongue, not just by reading the words on Avatar Wikia or something, but to actually get the pronouciation right and well learn it from scratch so to speak, I find that better. Make more! 8D

[takilovestorawr]

Loved the video I saw Avatar and wanted to learn how to speak Na'Vi I really love that you decided to do this! Keep it up!!

[alevag6]

Plz make more vids =D

[bsbomb14]

this movie wasnt even that good. it was just like a rip off of pocahontas with magic trees and people taking over other places. Im sooo tired of these avatar freaks with there weird obsession with the movie. its just like Trek nerds and Klingon. Its just dumb. This movie was like a 5 out of 10 for me.

[MrSupersilverhaze]

@bsbomb14

If you didn´t like the movie, why do you watch videos like this?

[Bennyrulez1997]

@bsbomb14 I think thats the point. It's like the Europeans stealing land from the Natives. I liked the movie though.

[OBCOP]

@bsbomb14 WOW~! 5 out of 10! That high? More like a 2 for me and that was just special effects.

[bigredjew]

Wow so it is really true. James Cameron has nerds under his spell.

[odenskrigare]

@bigredjew

Even I'm a more subtle troll than you. Try harder.

[bigredjew]

@odenskrigare Gawd I hate when people say that stupid troll shit.

[odenskrigare]

@bigredjew

u mad?

[TheSkiesDye]

@bigredjew Nerds ehh? You looked at this video too, so.. Welcome, Nerd.

[bigredjew]

@TheSkiesDye Thanks. Where are the drinks at?

[pumbaa19]

i thought you did a pretty good job, but youre forcing the ejectives too much... if you look over your video you can see your face is getting really tence... you dont need all of the facial action when you pronounce them... i dont know if you did it just for the the sake of picking up the sound on the mic but the ejectives can be pronouced with a bit more subtlety...for example try saying tick but take the "ick" off and youll have something very close to tx...

[SadieXKei]

wheres the other vids ;_;

[markus031098]

Kaltxì is Kawl-t-ih, not Kawl-t-ee

[LadyShariza]

Wow, thank you for this video! It helps me to learn the language faster. ^^

[NeoFusion720]

ä = Swedish Letter

yeey :D

[instrodude94]

is this an actual language i like learning different languages i currently am taking spanish and french and was taking arabic... anywase if this is real and is relatively easy and a bit similar to english or french or spanish then id like to learn it... if this is real where do they speak it at. (country wise)

[raster280]

Jetzt weis ich, wer dahinter steckt^^

kaltxì

[cronight1664wish]

Where you learn this????

[thisismychannel13685]

i dont think there i anything wrong with this cuz i wanted to kinda grasp what the hell i was doing haha i would like to see more :)

[albertsystem]

La cara d'aquest tio ja paga. Tu practica xaval, tu practica...

[YanBizKay]

I'm a language enthusiastic; I'm from Africa and I speak Lingala, French, English (obviously), conversational Japanese, and I'm currently learning Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.

My first question to you is: "What gives you the faculty to teach Na'vi before I learn from you or your website?

Were/Are you a student of Paul Frommer or something?

Obviously I have interested in the language. I think it created an amazing culture that's easy to identify with in the movie.

[LabanMelander]

Make more! <3

[LittleLlion]

please make more! I want to learn Na'vi too!

[MrKvok]

It's funny that there's so many 1 lessons... but no 2nds

[extramint9]

you just have to do more off these lessons it's realy helps me get started and makes me understand even more<33

[bombmanize]

this is amazing second lesson please

[tetsunogami]

If most of everyone that comments on this for being stupid, then why take the time to watch and comment on this video? This is how languages are born, then evolved into a full working language, just like every other language known to man. Why would I want to learn a language that a few people speak? Because, I think the creation of a language itself is great and that's what I appreciate about it. And I would take the time to learn it cause of it.

[BaraPontus2LOL]

the vowels are easy lol, swedish has them all....and more :P

Don't wanna sound mean, but the pronunciation is weird...especially i ì o u :P

The Na'vi langauge is interesting lol ^^

[nyguy]

Seriously, drop this shit. I like the movie, but this is going too far. Don't condemn yourself to a lifetime of loneliness. You will never get a girlfriend, and even if you do, she is going to look like Mrs. Doubtfire.

Ans what's up with the amish beard?

[IcemanSam650]

Scandinavian. Scandi *Na'vi* an Na'vi is right in there lol they just broke syllables up and made a bootleg language lol

[Kreloar]

Isn't pronounced Na'VI instead of NA'vi? (in the film the stress is on the second syllable)

[WillF007]

make more

[ATGEC]

make more!! this helped me get started very easily!

[hazza3]

In honor of Ogre, "NERDS!"

Wait, A E I O U?

wtf, thats my language 0_0.

[mooniata]

I love this! :)

[langcurious]

Great video

[Gmfirn]

Awesome!I plan on watching more.:)

[arterialshadow]

Why would you learn this language when you could use your time learning a language that I dunno...actually benefits you in life? Time isn't free people...

[3rkid2]

@arterialshadow

For the same reason people know how to speak Klingon.

[arterialshadow]

@3rkid2 Ahaha! Nuff said mate xD

[Envisionbymatthew]

wow, my whole face is wet now from this gay ass lisp

[AngelOfDeath454]

dude realy? u wasted your time to bring us this language that came from a movie? dude we could be learning proper language like french, german, spanish etc etc

[Weird0Productions]

@AngelOfDeath454 it's fun to know languages from movie especialy if you are a hardcore fan

[spyrothedrag0n]

lawl

skxawng.

krr slayu na'viya hapxì

fool dont know nothin about the laguage, id listen to some other dude not this fool

[paleobc65]

the only use for this is to talk in secret=)

[Dinatalev91]

i still can't grasp the Ejectives ...... any other hints ????

Great vid by the way

[tiefenlot]

Oe fpìl na'vi´ lì'fya ftue, (sorry - that had to be ;) ), but on the other hand, other people think, it´s hard.

But since I´m german, I am quite familiar with the pronounciation of the vowels, since they are almost the same in german

[shoyruki]

joy there's something else to fuel Na'vi kin...

[zarwal009]

u fuckin weirdo

[Zim813]

you should really continue the series, i would really like to learn more

[Jaaddeeful]

please do another one :/

[Syzelia]

Oh, but I think you've left out some more vowels (the harder ones, too.) Could you show us those pleez?

[Syzelia]

This is absolutely great, it's so much easier to hear it out and copy it bit by bit! You've given me more hope in learning the language ( I only started today )!!

And if you will, could you also make a video on how to do the rr (and the r, if that's also like a trill)?

Thanks so much

~Chihiro

[NiriZte]

Oh and great lesson TrueJournals. I'd like you to make more videos. When I first went to the website I was having difficulties which makes me think that I learn better from actual videos. Disguard those who have nothing but a cold soul.

[NiriZte]

If you don't like the idea of learning Na'vi then why did you even search up this video?

Does it make you feel better about being pathetic enough to try and make others upset by calling them nerds? Seriously if your not going to be serious about learning this language then don't come back to these videos. We may be nerds but at least we aren't assholes.

[Syzelia]

@NiriZte You tell 'em! I'm a nerd and proud of it :P

I'm also not an asshole and I'm even more proud of that!

[alitllebitemo]

@Syzelia Kaltxí Tawtute! Oe ftia Na'vi :P

[JustLikeCriscoDisco]

@NiriZte

My nerdyass friend linked it to me. We're not friends anymore

[sweiland75]

@NiriZte "Seriously if your not going to be serious about learning this language then don't come back to these videos."

That's ironic. You call out people for not being serious about a language, and yet, you don't even know the difference between "your" and "you're".

[CourtneyGymnast]

@NiriZte Yeah Buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheEliteNerd]

@NiriZte HELL YES!! I HAVE ``NERD`` IN MY FRIGGIN YOUTUBE NAME!!!!!!

[MaStErPhReSh333]

@NiriZte lol ya but we searched it up, not expecting to find this guy

[lee77777777]

hey man. if you got time could you keep me updated via email. any helpfull documents would also be greatly appretiated. you seem to put more effort into this than most. thanks again

[pheeson]

good luck learning a fictional made up language, nerds

[DomDove]

@pheeson Tell me a language that isn't made up.

[LuisFelipeGD1978]

Nerd alert!!!!!

[alliminator2]

keep doing this man

[RuneScapeSalva]

lmao vowels are easy for me, that if you know spanish. they are the same a e i o u, i think i should get in to this,lol

[jaggasman]

Ejectives? Maybe you could learn English first.

[jrXowatern]

@jaggasman ejectives are diffrent from adjectives. i think u should watch the video first so u will not sound stupid

[jaggasman]

@jrXowatern Ooops! The things you learn on youtube. Thank you, jrXowatern for not being too nasty to me!

[hernandadmx]

fat nerds...

[efectespeciale]

Hehe. That's nice.. Good job. The Vowels and Ejectives sound like the ones in my language. :)

[Keirebu4]

I liked it please make more im trying to learn and this help me so much. Please make more!!!

[xenafan15]

:D Can't wait to learn more!!

[drmaikati]

WTF...are you a Tard...hahahaha Na'vi hhaahahahaha

[oreopeo]

this if fucking scandinavian, LOL and BTW geek!

[StuntsandFuninc]

@oreopeo @samolux no dah dumbasses na'vi is a mix between many diffent languages

[Zonde32]

not scandinavian dude. scandinavian sounds more Canadic than Na'vi

[samolux]

da fugg... dey stole the ä from swedis and finsh, gad däm thifs!

[Krusty1985]

(cough cough) Nerd

[Basticulis]

Puto friki de mierda, mejor te pones a estudiar historia y geografia que la mierda esta!!

[WickedStalker]

good lesson. put more lessons up. eywa ngahu :)

[djjor3l]

all vowels are spanish or wtf

[Entwistle54]

Please, no more! Your American accent pervades every single pronunciation you make—you gave nearly every single one of those vowels an ugly, un-foreign off-glide. And what is up with those ejectives? Dude, the whole point is they're GLOTTALIC egressive, so your chest shouldn't be moving AT ALL when you pronounce them. Pick up a book about phonetics, please. J. Catford wrote a good one.

[SkaterDude2334]

this really helped, Irayo

[mashcrackboy]

who the fuck has time to learn nava or whatever the fuck this is let alone make a dam how to video branded:

no life

[PurrimofLeir]

@mashcrackboy if feel that way about, why the fraK did you watch this video in the first, I think someone has too much time on their hands.......oh and by the way it's you

[mashcrackboy]

@PurrimofLeir ummm.... no first off your probably fat or retarded because no one says frak and try learning a real language like Spanish or french or something not made up shit that aliens speak cause i guarantee you will not get in to a job or school speaking novo

[PurrimofLeir]

@mashcrackboy First of all it's NA'VI, why is that so hard.....and fraK is just a euphemism for f**k....And I'd to point out that Na'vi was invented by a linguistic proffer, his job happens to be making languages and studding real ones........

[mashcrackboy]

@PurrimofLeir dude you really think i care woww

[Luminara92]

Great video. Very helpful, especially concerning those x- consonants... I'd say go for more lessons. ;)

[MariusChamberlin]

Nice! Very helpful! Keeps these up!

[fightstyles]

y the fuck would u want to learn navi

[helicopter333]

so..who are u supposed to talk this language too???owh i get it,the na'vi people!!from the movie!!!!!now i get it...

[deerhigh]

Yes! Learn us the Na'vi language :D