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I'm looking for somebody fluent in Irish, preferably in Ulster dialect to converse with. A polyglot wannabe and pretty much of a geek. Is breá liom ceol agus na hamharcealaíona. Níl Gaeilge liofa agam ach tá mé fonn a fhoghlaim. Tá béagan Seapainis agam agus ba mhaith liom a fhoghlaim teangacha eile fosta ach tá mé ag díríu le Gaeilge amháin anois. Bí foighdeach liom. :)
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- Hi there! I know this reply is a bit late but just to clear things up for everybody else's sake as the anime is coming to end. Attack on Titan is grammatically wrong and something that's lost in translation. It's because of the existence of the particle "no" の in original Japanese title Shingeki no Kyojin 進撃の巨人. To fully understand the mix up we have to dissect the phrase. 進 = enter, advance, or move forward 撃 = beat, attack, defeat, conquer If we combine these two 進撃 , it'd mean something like Rage. 巨= huge, giant 人= man Combine these two 巨人, we'd get gigantic man or Titans like the story implies. So we basically got Rage and Giant, what about の "no"? This is where people get confused. Most people think の is just a possessive particle so they assume many things like Attack of Titans or Marching of Giants, without taking into consideration that the particle の has a wide range of uses like connecting nouns together. Therefore, Shingeki no Kyojin 進撃の巨人 simply translates to Rage Titan or Attack Titan (Eren's original titan power). Which actually makes sense considering that all other titan names follow the same syntax except for The Colossus Titan (超大型巨人 Chō ōgata Kyojin): Founding Titan (始祖の巨人 Shiso no Kyojin) The Armored Titan (鎧の巨人 Yoroi no Kyojin) The Beast Titan (獣の巨人 Kemono no Kyojin) The Cart Titan (車力の巨人 Shariki no Kyojin) The Female Titan (女型の巨人 Megata no Kyojin) The Jaw Titan (顎の巨人 Agito no Kyojin) The War Hammer Titan (戦鎚の巨人 Sentsui no Kyojin) The creator, Hajime Isayama though, thought that making it "Attack on Titan" for English viewers sounds cooler so he stuck with it. But we have to take into consideration that Isayama wasn't fluent in English at the time of its conception which is totally understandable. Check out for more info about の: https://blogs.transparent.com/japanese/japanese-grammar-the-no-%E3%81%AE-particle/ PS. Did you see the latest episode? I still can't get over last week's The Rumbling. Lol0 votedFebruary 16, 20221
- Grammar questions regarding copula sentences. Haló gach daoine! Happy new year. I've been reading this pdf I downloaded and realised few things. 1) We all know how the copula "Is" works in classification sentences like "Is rúnaí í" (she is a secretary) but if were to classify a proper noun like "Síle is a secretary" is "Is rúnaí Síle" sentence correct? 2) In using the copula in identification sentences, when to use the one with emphatic pronoun "Is ise an rúnaí" and the one with echoing pronoun "Is í an rúnaí í"? Do they vary in some degree? 3) Is propletic pronoun really required when identifying proper nouns, like "Is í Síle an rúnaí"? Like what difference would it make if I say "Is Síle an rúnaí"? Thanks in advance. :)January 11, 201612
- Hi Craig. Waray-waray is a language spoken in Eastern Visayas region in areas like Samar (remember the island swept by Typhoon Haiyan, yep, those people were Waray). I don't know if you can find any Waray teacher online but in case you can't, any Visayan dialect (Bisaya/Binisaya) will do. Cebuano perhaps since it's the lingua franca in Visayas and some parts of Mindanao, and is closely related with subtle differences with Waray-waray. I don't speak Bisaya but I know these things because my maternal grandmum was a native Waray-waray speaker while my dad was a Cebuano speaker and they could get along really well - alienating me - a Tagalog speaker. I intend to learn Bisaya someday to find connection with my relatives there but which dialect, I haven't decided yet after all I don't consider it a problem. Good luck! :)0 votedJanuary 2, 20164
Ang mas mahalaga
Ang pinakahuling klase <em>you missed that linker LOL</em> :( salamat ang sa matulungan tulong! <em>Thanks for the help - if that's what you're trying to say</em>. Ngayon pwede ko na mas maintindihan marami mas<em> </em>kaysa kanila sila.<em> You put "mas" before the word it modifies and you may omit "marami" because it becomes redundant with "mas".</em> Iyon Isang buwan lang iyon, pero pwede na ko nagusap makipag-usap sa mga taon sa kalye, at para sa akin, iyon ay ang mas mahalaga!
Awesome! I must agree, you're ready to go for random conversations. :D
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