Lesson 1 - "Is It Hard? What Does It Look Like?" - How To Start.

[Tu'te]

At last, I couldn't remember which post I'd asked for advice re ngati kame etc.
Thanks for your advice, ma eylans.

And just to bump up again....

Can anyone translate the Na'Vi that's sung so softly at the end of the track from the soundtrack called 'Jakes First Flight'? I'm sure I've heard eylans and mawey.... so calm friends right?

[Walas00]

Yeah mawey is calm, eylan is friend.
Can't help you with what is in the track thou. Maybe someone knows on learnnavi.com. Try searching their forums.

[Txonä Rolyu]

Super thread bump!

The lyrics you hear at the end of Jake's First Flight are lyrics from the Tree Song:

Utralä anawm
ayrina' lu ayoeng,
a peyä tìtxur mì hinam awngeyä
Na aysengek afkew
mì pun
Na ayvul ahusawnu
mì aynari
Na seze
a 'ong ne tsawke
Utralä anawm
ayrina' lu ayoeng
a peyä tìrol mì awnga


We are all seeds,
of the Great tree
Whose strength is in our legs
like the mighty trunks,
in our arms
As sheltering branches,
in our eyes
the blue-flower
which unfolds to the sun.
we are all seeds
of the Great tree
whose song is within us

-Txonä Rolyu

[TireaAean]

indeed. and also, a bit of that can be heard at the Tree of Souls when before Jake, Toruk Makto lands to meet them.

[TorukMuktoNa'vi]

I need help because I can pronounce the words but I don't know what they mean and also I don't know how to spell Na'vi words and sentences can you please help me? Thanks :Na'vi:

[Human No More]

Na'vi Vocabulary

LN has a few resources on pronunciation as well - Na'vi Phonetics and Phonology

[TireaAean]

Na'vi Phonetics and Phonology

The blue/red colors on that chart are wrong. Ts canot be syllable final nor can n, for example, start consonant clusters. The chart should be identical to

Language Log

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[Dreamfields]

Walas00, thank you very much for your detailled lessons and explanations. I have learnes several languages in my life (German,English, French, Spanish, Quechua, Gaelic, Maya, Sumerian) and am fascinated also by created language like the one of the Na'vi or the Elves languages in Lord of the Rings. I will be following your lessons.

:-)

[TireaAean]

Zola'u Nìprrte' | Welcome - Tirea Aean

Na'vi Grammar made simple. I recently did a post about the sounds that includes recordings

[Moco Loco]

Recordings are especially helpful to me since I'm really awful at speaking Looking at it, meanings and structure come back to me but I can't pronounce anything.

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

Recordings are especially helpful to me since I'm really awful at speaking Looking at it, meanings and structure come back to me but I can't pronounce anything.

I hope that helps then. if you can pronounce like those recordings, then you can pronounce anything. I suspect that r and rr are ruining your party. You are certainly not alone there.

[Moco Loco]

Definitely those, but I also find some vowel sounds hard to remember. It's true though, "rr" is the biggest mystery.

[Lahea Atxkxeftu]

Thank God I'm Polish, so rr is is easy for me... Good luck to you all, keep practicing, you will get it eventually

[Eana Unil]

Originally Posted by Lahea Atxkxeftu

Thank God I'm Polish, so rr is is easy for me... Good luck to you all, keep practicing, you will get it eventually

Lucky you ^^ Although I'm german (grew up in Northrein-Westphalia, where the trilled r is almost not used at all, unlike in Bavaria e.g.), the rr is almost impossible for me to pronounce, I still have to practice a lot until I'm able to say krr, trr, mrr, nrr, lrrtok and so on. Makes me sad. ;/ ^^

Had a lot of problems with the ejectives in the beginning as well, but now I'm fortunately able to pronounce them. At least something, eh.

[Susano'o]