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Daenerys:
Hi everyone!

I am really excited to be here and learn the Dothraki language with you and make some new friends and language buddies too!
I'm in lovely San Francisco.  I think this is such a wonderful forum and project! ^^ I look forward to getting to know you and be part of the community!

Take care and may wonderful blessings to all of you!  :)

ingsve:

--- Quote from: Daenerys on August 18, 2011, 11:17:25 am ---Hi everyone!

I am really excited to be here and learn the Dothraki language with you and make some new friends and language buddies too!
I'm in lovely San Francisco.  I think this is such a wonderful forum and project! ^^ I look forward to getting to know you and be part of the community!

Take care and may wonderful blessings to all of you!  :)

--- End quote ---

M'ath and welcome.

Hrakkar:
Daenerys, I see you got yourself one of the better available names  :)

Too bad you weren't in Reno last Thursday (or were you?) That day, David Peterson, the creator of Dothraki, gave three presentations at the Worldcon science fiction convention. One was on creating the Dothraki language.  The second presentation was an introduction to linguistics, where David was one of several distinguished linguists speaking. The third was a very interesting-- and challenging-- language creation workshop.

In any case, welcome to the world of the Dothraki language. Please be patient and persistent, as things have been happening fairly slowly here. Take some time and examine the materials available here. There is no formal way yet to learn Dothraki, so you will have to work out your own way. There are some suggestions on the wiki of how to get started, but any method that works for you is OK.

Daenerys:
Hrakkar, Thank you so much for the warm welcome!  :) I can be a bit shy to get involved so it is very cool of you.

I wasn't in Reno, but so would have loved to have been there and to have attend David Peterson's workshops. My roommate went with his friend and his girlfriend almost went, but I wasn't able to. Sadly, my roomie isn't into Dothraki so didn't attend any of Mr. Peterson's presentations, though he did bring me back a Targaryan button. The third talk you mention sounds awesome. I love languages in general, as they tend to define how people or cultures view the world and by learning new ones, you can see things in a different way. How wonderful is that?!

Thank you for your encouragement! :) Slow can be good, as it allows things to sink in. Hopefully, I can apply some of what I know about teaching language (I have a CELTA for teaching English to foreign language users), to learning Dothraki. :)

Hrakkar:
So, you came very close to going. Too bad you couldn't make it. Hopefully, that can be made up by participating in activities here. There is still much to learn! In any case, you can look at David Peterson's presentation here: http://dedalvs.com/dothraki/dothrakireno.pdf Pay special attention to the conversational Dothraki on pages 12 and 13.

At least you got a Targaryen button out of it. Those buttons came on a card in a set of four: Baratheon, Targaryen, Lannister and Stark. They put out several cartons of these cards, bagged in bags of about 20 cards, and 20-30 bags per carton. I almost took an entire bag before I realized that there were about 20 cards in each bag! A little later, I was waiting in line to get George R.R. Martin to autograph a couple of items. I was waiting in line with a couple of young men, brothers, from Sacramento. One of these had plugged his I-pod into a nearby power outlet and was 'jammin' away' while we waited for the line to move. Someone came around, handing out more of the button cards. The man who was not listening to tunes took two cards, one of them for his brother. He then got his brother's attention and handed him one of the cards. He looked at the card almost thoughtlessly, and removed (perhaps at random) the Lannister button and pinned it on his shirt. His brother looked almost horrified. He reached down and removed the button, telling him 'We do not wear Lannister buttons in our family'. It was all I could do to not laugh!

I must have found those buttons right after they were 'deposited' for people to take. 45 minutes later, all three or four cases of buttons were completely gone!

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