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| Noregi Newbie Norway Joined 5404 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes | Message 1 of 4 13 July 2009 at 1:24am | IP Logged |
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Dear Dr. Arguelles
Let me begin by introducing myself: My name is Knut Andersen, I am 16 years old and I come from Norway. I have been thinking for quite some time now on whether I should contact you or not, but in the end, I decided I would since I cannot seem to find the necessary information on my own. Why I have contacted you: Some months ago, me and my family travelled to the Netherlands. My grandmother is from North Holland, and we travelled with her to see where she lived when she was young. During our stay there I noticed several poeple speaking a language that was quite different from the Dutch language I usually heard everywhere. When I aksed my grandmother she told me it was called Frisian. Later, when I was back home, I made an attempt of locating some dictionaries and/or phrasebooks so that i could see how the language "looked" like. I eventually used Wikipedia to get myself an overview over the language (since i didn't but I still wasn't satisfied with what I found. I eventually resorted to YouTube, where I found your excellent video about Frisian. I am very grateful that you took your time to make such a video! I still wonder one thing, though: in your video you mentioned the book "Bûter, brea, en griene tsiis" as a good manual in learning Frisian. But since I aspire to learn this language, I wonder if you know any more good books (dictionaries, readers, grammar and so on) that I can use to learn this very interesting language? Thank you very much in advance! Your sincerely, Knut Andersen. PS. I wonder if you also know some good books to learn Dutch as well? I really like the way it sounds, and I would like to take part in conversations with my grandmother in her native tongue, and it would be a great way to try and learn yet another very intruiging language. I sincerely hope I am not too much of a bother, professor! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlejandroMendoz Newbie Canada Joined 5416 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, English* | Message 2 of 4 14 August 2009 at 11:04am | IP Logged |
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Hopefully Prof. Arguelles will respond when he has time.
I happen to know that there is a grammar of this language that can be found online. It was not to my taste but perhaps you can find some use for it. Since it's late i will have to go look it up at a later time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6700 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 14 August 2009 at 6:39pm | IP Logged |
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Knut, I just found this page which is full of resources:
I-Friesland A grammar here: http://www.archive.org/details/phonologygrammar00sipmuoft Jeff Lindqvist 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| AlejandroMendoz Newbie Canada Joined 5416 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, English* | Message 4 of 4 15 August 2009 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, it appears you found the grammar i was talking about. Thanks Jeff!
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