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HBO: Game of Thrones / Re: Hooray! Dialouge!
« on: May 02, 2016, 07:56:22 am »
Ooh I didn't think of that. I was thinking along the lines of The Old Tongue. He already has the Mag Nuk pidgin, so it may be a a possibility
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HBO: Game of Thrones / Re: Hooray! Dialouge!
« on: May 01, 2016, 07:47:46 pm »
Update for tonight:
Nothing new for Dothraki
but Melisandre did speak in a language without dialouge, so I think DJP has been working on the language of magic! It sounded a bit like Valyrian, but I don't know it well at all 
@DannyJeffrey Was it either of the Valyrians?
Nothing new for Dothraki
but Melisandre did speak in a language without dialouge, so I think DJP has been working on the language of magic! It sounded a bit like Valyrian, but I don't know it well at all @DannyJeffrey Was it either of the Valyrians?
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Dothraki Language Updates / Re: Anyone able to translate...?
« on: May 01, 2016, 07:41:18 pm »
Athnithari eth vekha, vosma yer laz annakhi athdogar.
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Beginners / Re: Translate please??
« on: April 29, 2016, 08:09:28 am »
Ok, I'm all rested up and ready to explain the rules completely. I'll go through word by word explaining why it is said in this way, mainly because I am very bored at school and have nothing better to do
Hash- this is what is used to form the beginning of each clause for the structure of your sentence. This is known as one of the Adverbial clauses. The sentence structure "If Y happens, then X will happen" or "When Y happens, the X will happen" is what you use to build the Adverbial clause. I explained this last night, but it's good to review with a rested mind!
yer- this is the basic nominal form of you. No need to elaborate here.
alaji- this is the verb fight in the 2nd person singluar future tense. It is in the future tense because the person hasn't done it. This is very simple and I am confident that you already know all of this
alaji- even though this word looks the same as the first alaji, there is a small but important detail; the second alaji is a command. The formal imperative mood adds an i to a verb that ends in a consonant, and leaves a verb that ends in a vowel the same. if you want someone to drink you would simply say Inde, and if you want someone to say something you would say Asti. This is applied to the word fight, because you are telling them to do something.
k'athhajari- this is a Manner adverb. This is the most difficult word in the sentence to describe. It is very difficult to try to teach, so I will leave it up to this website to do it for me; https://wiki.dothraki.org/Adverbs
che- this is the conjunction or, but you definitely know this.
adrivo()- I have explained conjugation and imperative mood already, but I want to show you that with the word for die, I added the () to show that it is in the imperative mood but no endings need to be added because the verb ends in a vowel.
So, your big, colorful sentence looks like this;
"Hash yer alaji, hash yer alaji k'athhajari che adrivo()."
I hope this all makes sense and that I will hear from you on Skype soon! Fonas chek!
Hash- this is what is used to form the beginning of each clause for the structure of your sentence. This is known as one of the Adverbial clauses. The sentence structure "If Y happens, then X will happen" or "When Y happens, the X will happen" is what you use to build the Adverbial clause. I explained this last night, but it's good to review with a rested mind!
yer- this is the basic nominal form of you. No need to elaborate here.
alaji- this is the verb fight in the 2nd person singluar future tense. It is in the future tense because the person hasn't done it. This is very simple and I am confident that you already know all of this
alaji- even though this word looks the same as the first alaji, there is a small but important detail; the second alaji is a command. The formal imperative mood adds an i to a verb that ends in a consonant, and leaves a verb that ends in a vowel the same. if you want someone to drink you would simply say Inde, and if you want someone to say something you would say Asti. This is applied to the word fight, because you are telling them to do something.
k'athhajari- this is a Manner adverb. This is the most difficult word in the sentence to describe. It is very difficult to try to teach, so I will leave it up to this website to do it for me; https://wiki.dothraki.org/Adverbs
che- this is the conjunction or, but you definitely know this.
adrivo()- I have explained conjugation and imperative mood already, but I want to show you that with the word for die, I added the () to show that it is in the imperative mood but no endings need to be added because the verb ends in a vowel.
So, your big, colorful sentence looks like this;
"Hash yer alaji, hash yer alaji k'athhajari che adrivo()."
I hope this all makes sense and that I will hear from you on Skype soon! Fonas chek!
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Beginners / Re: Translate please??
« on: April 28, 2016, 09:02:20 pm »
M'ath, Voj dothraki sash!
You did very well for a brand new speaker! Of course there are a few mistakes, but that is to be expected and all apart of the learning process!
First of all, you wouldn't start your statement with Affin in Dothraki. In this language, you start each clause of the classic "(If/when) X happens, then (Y/or Z) will happen" sentence structure with the conjunction Hash. If you go onto the Dothraki dictionary and type in the words then or when, then you should see if...then;when...then show up in the search bar. Thankfully, David J Peterson kept it easy on us and left it up to one word!
Your only problem with conjugations were that you left it in the present tense, which was a problem I had a problem with too, and you didn't make strongly an adverb. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it eventually
Another error comes with the imperative mood, which would appear in the independent clause, because you are telling them to fight strongly. The problem usually comes when determening which one of the forms of imperative to use; the formal or informal. I'd say that you should use the formal, because it is obvious that whoever is doing the command does not care whether the person lives or dies at the end of the fight.
So, in total, your sentence would look more like this with proper Dothraki:
"Hash yer alaji, hash yer alaji k'athhajari che adrivo."
I'm trusting that you already know how the grammatical rules work, because I'm very tired and I don't feel like explaining them right now. Sorry! I should be all rested up tomorrow and will answer any questions you may have still. Arrekaan arrek, Anha eth remekak chek. Hajas!
You did very well for a brand new speaker! Of course there are a few mistakes, but that is to be expected and all apart of the learning process!
First of all, you wouldn't start your statement with Affin in Dothraki. In this language, you start each clause of the classic "(If/when) X happens, then (Y/or Z) will happen" sentence structure with the conjunction Hash. If you go onto the Dothraki dictionary and type in the words then or when, then you should see if...then;when...then show up in the search bar. Thankfully, David J Peterson kept it easy on us and left it up to one word!
Your only problem with conjugations were that you left it in the present tense, which was a problem I had a problem with too, and you didn't make strongly an adverb. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it eventually
Another error comes with the imperative mood, which would appear in the independent clause, because you are telling them to fight strongly. The problem usually comes when determening which one of the forms of imperative to use; the formal or informal. I'd say that you should use the formal, because it is obvious that whoever is doing the command does not care whether the person lives or dies at the end of the fight.
So, in total, your sentence would look more like this with proper Dothraki:
"Hash yer alaji, hash yer alaji k'athhajari che adrivo."
I'm trusting that you already know how the grammatical rules work, because I'm very tired and I don't feel like explaining them right now. Sorry! I should be all rested up tomorrow and will answer any questions you may have still. Arrekaan arrek, Anha eth remekak chek. Hajas!
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Beginners / Re: Dothraki Partner
« on: April 28, 2016, 08:31:56 pm »
Would you like to talk back and forth? I'd be happy to!
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A Song of Ice and Fire / Re: Where to begin?
« on: April 28, 2016, 07:17:21 pm »
Well, I did get through books one and two last summer and I was meaning to move on to the remaining three, but then school started up again and that usually turns me into a bundle of nerves and anxiety! Hopefully, I'll have the summer mostly free again and I can get onto reading again
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HBO: Game of Thrones / Re: Who has plans for Sunday?
« on: April 28, 2016, 07:15:01 pm »
Well then, it will be a hell of an asshekhqoyi celebration for me knowing that another Dothraki fan can also find themselves a girlfriend
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HBO: Game of Thrones / Re: Hooray! Dialouge!
« on: April 28, 2016, 07:11:59 pm »
Yeah, this Dothraki horde tended to lean more towards the (for lack of a better adjective) rapey side. If you thought Drogo was bad, he's nothing compared to the two men who openly wanted to rape, sodomize, torture, and then in an act of mercy, feed Danny to the dogs! Hopefully, it should add a bit more to the dictionary ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Beginners / Re: Translate please??
« on: April 28, 2016, 07:07:19 pm »
Nobody else seems to be willing to help out right now, so you gotta do what you can while the road is rough.
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Beginners / Re: Translate please??
« on: April 27, 2016, 11:56:12 am »
Loshas zhoroon anni, haji anha vannevak mae ma yeroon.
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Dothraki Language Updates / Re: Tattoo Translation!
« on: April 27, 2016, 11:54:37 am »
Loshas zhoroon anni, haji anha vannevak mae ma yeroon.
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Beginners / Re: Why learn Valyrian?
« on: April 27, 2016, 11:46:31 am »
Again I applaud your approach to languages, both natural and constructed, but that approach is something that can only be applied to a person such as yourself who has been openly exposed to language before adolescence. I don't know if you know of this concept, but it's a relatively well known one in all of language studies: the older you get, the chances of you becoming fluent in a language plummets after around 10 years of age, and your chances of fluency reach lower than 10% by around 18 years of age. If you learn a language in between 2 months and 10 years of age, your chances of learning other languages is extended past that 10-year dead line and can last well into your 30's.
You caught onto French at 8, which is a bit late but still well within that time frame. With your threshhold expanded, you were equally able to catch on to Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Russian. The only exposure I ever got was two years of German from an American public school at the age of 14, so the odds are a little stacked against me. Thus I need to use different tactics in order to learn a language.
I live in a backwards society that refuses to give any decent education towards language. No joke, the parents of an elementary school want the Chinese immersion program shut down because they think that the teachers will spread communist propaganda to the children who take it. I guess my point is that I live in a completely different environment than you, and will have to use different methods for language learning. I think that eventually I will look at Valyrian again, but for the time being I'm going to put my nose to the grindstone and gain fluency in Dothraki.
You caught onto French at 8, which is a bit late but still well within that time frame. With your threshhold expanded, you were equally able to catch on to Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Russian. The only exposure I ever got was two years of German from an American public school at the age of 14, so the odds are a little stacked against me. Thus I need to use different tactics in order to learn a language.
I live in a backwards society that refuses to give any decent education towards language. No joke, the parents of an elementary school want the Chinese immersion program shut down because they think that the teachers will spread communist propaganda to the children who take it. I guess my point is that I live in a completely different environment than you, and will have to use different methods for language learning. I think that eventually I will look at Valyrian again, but for the time being I'm going to put my nose to the grindstone and gain fluency in Dothraki.
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Announcements / Re: Duolingo course
« on: April 26, 2016, 10:45:58 am »
Side note:
I had a bit of a fever last night and I had taken some medicine that had made me a tad crazy. Though my enthusiasm in apparent, I apologize for the pharmaceutical-fueled babbling I displayed
However, if you are interested in helping out on the Duolingo Dothraki course I want to start up, please feel free to contact me!
I had a bit of a fever last night and I had taken some medicine that had made me a tad crazy. Though my enthusiasm in apparent, I apologize for the pharmaceutical-fueled babbling I displayed
However, if you are interested in helping out on the Duolingo Dothraki course I want to start up, please feel free to contact me!
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Announcements / Duolingo course
« on: April 25, 2016, 10:06:09 pm »
Everyone, listen here!
We need some volunteers to sign up to work on a Dothraki duolingo course. I'm going to PM everyone I think would be a good addition to the team, but if you think you are good enough at Dothraki to help out, please speak out and I would be more than happy to have your help. I know this community isn't very active, but please, we have the opportunity to reach an audience of millions of people! Think about how great it would be get a fresh wave of beginners into this stagnant forum. Consider the following benefits of helping:
-as said previously, it is a good way to reach a large audience
-a good way to easily strengthen your Dothraki skills on a highly developed app
-some spoken learning material to help you pronounce the language better
-a place where you get a personal sense of accomplishment with every lesson you complete, and you would know exactly how well you know Dothraki and how much you need to improve
please please please PLEASE PLEASE! Let's get something done for a change!
We need some volunteers to sign up to work on a Dothraki duolingo course. I'm going to PM everyone I think would be a good addition to the team, but if you think you are good enough at Dothraki to help out, please speak out and I would be more than happy to have your help. I know this community isn't very active, but please, we have the opportunity to reach an audience of millions of people! Think about how great it would be get a fresh wave of beginners into this stagnant forum. Consider the following benefits of helping:
-as said previously, it is a good way to reach a large audience
-a good way to easily strengthen your Dothraki skills on a highly developed app
-some spoken learning material to help you pronounce the language better
-a place where you get a personal sense of accomplishment with every lesson you complete, and you would know exactly how well you know Dothraki and how much you need to improve
please please please PLEASE PLEASE! Let's get something done for a change!