(Hawaiian) In my first trimester

[PathogenProductions]

This is super cool man! I live here in Hawaii but nobody speaks that here! lol, best chance of finding natives would be going to Lanai. You're beating a lot of the natives here (which is EXTREMELY SCARCE). Which is kind of funny NOBODY speaks Hawaiian in HAWAII

[laoshu505000]

@PathogenProductions nobody there speaks Hawaiian???

[PathogenProductions]

@laoshu505000 It's nearly an extinct language man! >.< You'd be lucky to find anyone who's half Hawaiian here. Mostly Japanese like myself here now. haha

[fabianv94]

@etyen100 Warlpiri, Arrente, Kala lagaw ya and Western desert language are still widely spoken =].

[stephen0491]

I have a great deal of courses on cassettes and I find that I save time by simply digitizing my cassettes in the first place and cutting them up and making mp3s out of them. I do this with a male-male audio cable, the line in port on my laptop, a cassette player, and the free audio editing program audacity. It takes a while, but in the end you save all the time of rewinding and finding your spot and whatnot. It's a good investment for a language learner, especially if you like vintage courses.

[stephen0491]

Which is cheaper than the program Moses mentions, for those of us who are frugal.

[laoshu505000]

@stephen0491 Yea, that's one thing I didn't do- I didn't use the video editor to break up the files.

[daysin1234]

Nice addition to your collection dude!

[laoshu505000]

@daysin1234 I'm hungry for more man

[zaczaczacqwe]

Could you make a video teaching us some Devanagari Script? I've been busy with my studies for a couple of weeks but I haven't acomplished anything significant yet. Those fucking letter combinations and changes, man!

Well... Hope you can gimme some advice.

Piótr.

[laoshu505000]

@zaczaczacqwe I made a video a while ago going through some Devangari script actually. What course are you using?

[zaczaczacqwe]

@laoshu505000 I'm using a method in Russin [my mother tongue], by Lomonov. I think you dont know it. Could you gimme the link to your video?

Regards.

[GregK28002]

okay.. so.. correct me if im wrong , but Hawaiian people are Pacific Asians right? knowing alot about other Asian cultures and some unknown one, I dont know much about Hawaiian culture so yeah i just thought i might ask.

[payaprice3]

i have a question thats has been killing me in my chinese learning, all the characters i draw look so bad its pathetic, how did you learn to write the characters?

[laoshu505000]

@payaprice3 You're gonna have to write Chinese almost everyday in order to become used to writing them. There aren't any shortcuts when it comes to this unfortunately.

[payaprice3]

@laoshu505000 alright, what resources did you use?

sorry for all the questions, im 17, theres no one to help me with any of this & i cant get classes.

[steve4nlanguage]

@payaprice3 As Moses said, practice, practice, practice. My advice, if you aren't doing so already, is to use the paper with boxes--not lines--to write your characters. Pay attention to stroke order and write slowly. 加油!

[payaprice3]

@steve4nlanguage i didnt think of useing boxed paper, thanks thats a good idea.

[qzchris]

@payaprice3 I recommend a book called "Learn to Write Chinese Characters" by Johan Björksten". It'll run you through stroke order and aesthetics, including the correct technique of writing each individual stroke. I used it when I started to learn written Chinese, and it's been a real help.

[payaprice3]

@qzchris alright thanks. ill look into that. i herd that only 1000 characters make up 90% of the language and 250 is 60% of the language, is this true?

[Yelnnek]

I actually have a copy of Let's Speak Hawaiian, too. I managed to snag it for about $1.50 I think. I would have definitely liked audio with it, but it seemed to do a pretty good job describing pronunciation in the beginning chapters of the book. Do you feel that some of the layout of the book is a little confusing for someone who hasn't studied language before? I feel like it's got a great amount of information in it and it's a great resource, though.

[laoshu505000]

@Yelnnek $1.50? lol Yea, it is a little bit confusing, but one would get used to it quickly.

[Yelnnek]

@laoshu505000 Yeah, $1.50. We have a few huge used bookstores around the area, and huge foreign language sections. I usually go through and grab any books that seem harder to find, or interesting. Usually they're all under 5 dollars, usually only 1 or 2. I mostly have bought phrasebooks there, but a few textbooks come up now and then.

[payaprice3]

so why rare languages?

[payaprice3]

what are the benifits of learning hawaiian? personal desire i guess?

[laoshu505000]

@payaprice3 It's just fun learning languages in general

[payaprice3]

@laoshu505000 ah i see. i know what you mean but i like to learn things based on its usefullness. i know spanish and im begginng chinese, im not sure what else at the momment

[laoshu505000]

@payaprice3 I respect that bro

[AysarAburrub]

man ... hisashiburi!!! ... no matter how strange the grammar is, it shouldn't be a problem for someone like you who have studied languages from so many language families. Besides, MSA is also a VSO language, and your level in Arabic is very good so it shouldn't be much of a problem.

Good Luck with Hawaiian!!!

[laoshu505000]

@AysarAburrub I actually thought about Arabic when while I was going through the book.

[BrokenClocks08]

It's been too long.

[laoshu505000]

@BrokenClocks08 too long for what? lol

[BrokenClocks08]

@laoshu505000 Since your last video! :P

[laoshu505000]

@BrokenClocks08 I'm sorry man lol

[tokutom]

I got bored of the CD that was with my 15 minute Japanese book. I didn't want to listen to the same stuff again.

[laoshu505000]

@tokutom Where did you get that from?

[tokutom]

@laoshu505000 IDK I was just given it when I said I was gonna start learning Japanese. It's Dorling Kindersley,you should find it on Amazon fairly easily.

[laoshu505000]

@tokutom OK, Thanks, I'm gonna go search for it right now!

[Bartisation]

Wow, Hawaiian! There really isn´t any language you don´t want to learn! :D haha so awesome! I am curious how Hawaiian actually sounds, I think I have never heard any Hawaiian. I hope you will make a video speaking in Hawaiian somewhere in the future! :)

[HabeKeinMitleid]

@Bartisation I agree.