Video 2 Language learning in Madagascar

Learning the Malagasy language, amazing bug zapper and why you need to pray for Pete to learn Malagasy fast.

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• learning
• malagasy
• Madagascar

[dyraisverykooel]

Its also offensive to call someone a Dog or a Pig in Indonesia...its one of the 1001 reasons to start badmouthing or fighting here or generally anywhere in South-East Asia

[JustAnthoBeats]

Great Video

[Just4Kixs]

Nice one. I speak an Austronesian language called Cebuano. The dialect I speak is the Mindanao dialect of it. It's interesting to see how Malagasy and Cebuano are related languages.

[Malagasyza]

Yeah do ever call anyone a "dog" I know it's like really cool to call someone "dog" in English but just don't do it when you're in Madagascar.  I've called someone a dog there and they followed to my house!

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Peter ve ny anara nao sa ny anara ny vady nao?

[HomedudePedroski]

yes, it is related to Barito languages spoken in Borneo. the people of Madagascar are mix-heritage of Malay-Polynesian (Austronesian), African, and Arabic people. The Merina people of Madagascar look very similar to Malays.

[HomedudePedroski]

similaries of Malagasy numbers with other Austronesian numbers: Malagasy numbers: 2 - roa 3 - telo 4 - efatra 5 - dimy 6 -enina 7 - fito 8 - valo 10 - folo Javanese (Indonesian dialect) numbers: 3 - telu 4 - papat 5 - lima 6 - nem 7 - pitu 8 - wolu 10 - sepuluh Cebuano (Filipino dialect) 2 - duha 3 - tulu 4 - upat 5 - lima 6 - unum 7 - pito 8 - walo 10 - napulo Maori 2 - rua 3 - toru 5 - rima 7 - whitu 8 - waru Hawaiian 2 - elua 3 - ekolu 5 - elima 7 - ehiku 8 - ewalu

[LeCoqCurieux]

Good job, elder Peter. You sound perfect. Henri is a good teacher, too.

Woaw! the bug zap ! It's the first time for me to see an electric fly-catching device like that. And you're right about the hairstyle.

We call that "coco rasé " (litterally translated "shaved coconut").

[ligure1976]

can you tell me a website to study malagasy?

I wanna learn to do a simple conversation.

Thanks!!!

[kotomena]

malagasy language is member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. The Malagasy language also includes borrowings from Bantu languages (notably Swahili), and Arabic

good luck :)

[0stsee]

Hej!

Good luck in learning Malagasy!

I heard it is related to Indonesian, which I could recognize by the word "I" and "my".

Once again, good luck!

MarK