Get your hair cut!!
Who, me? what's wrong with my hair?
I suppose it is a bit long.
Hi, how are you (everyone). I'm very good thanks.
My name is Andy. I want to make this film in Kurdish (Sorani)
Long time no see!
Now, I'm speaking a little Sorani
Do you understand? Mn Tedagayet? (Do you understand me? in Sorani)
I like Sorani films.
I watch Youtube videos these days.
I like to read.
as you can see
I am fifty eight years old. I'm learning Sorani.
[Sorani] I'm going to Mexico . [English] I just said I'm going to Mexico and that
will be for the polyglot conference later on this year and Corona virus permitting of course
I don't know how to say I'll be going there this year. [in Sorani]
But I know how simply I'm going there
And that's thanks to Kamo Araz's YouTube channel.
He posted a video entitled "100 Phrases in Sorani"
I've used some of them already in this video
So today I got my haircut as you can see. There's not much [hair] left
I went to my barbers for the first time after he challenged me to learn Sorani
and I went in speaking a little bit of Sorani. I said to him "Slav, chonit, bashm,"
Zor bashm spas", and then he said ...
I said to him [My name's Andy. I'm 58 years old] in Sorani of course.
which is my name's Andy and I'm 58 years old and he
said oh you can speak a bit more Sorani no so I said "Bale" which is yes and
then I said "Cwar, tikaye" which is number 4 please
and after that he didn't really want to speak any Sorani
I mean I know I can't speak much but I felt a bit disappointed really because I carried on trying to
say phrases and little things like I said to him "Hazt la yari topi piya?"
which is do you like football do you like playing football?
I don't even like football but I know how to say that and he was like #?0
So I said to him, "Hazm la khwardenawait?" meaning do you like reading?
Still nothing.
So I thought okay he doesn't really want to speak anymore you know he knows my
Sorani isn't very good but it was a bit deflating really that he was the one who
challenged me in the first place so has this made me want to continue
learning Sorani? Yes! Actually it does because all the people I've met so far
about 10 people who I've tried to speak Sorani with and it's been quite
interesting meeting them and learning about Kurdistan and looking at
the videos on YouTube and trying to kind of make sense of the different
Sorani dialects and the different accents and trying to make sense of
which resources can you use because there aren't too many resources actually
for Sorani Kurdish. There's a few million people speakers and the
Sorani network seems to be really good because the infrastructure in Iraq is
such that Sorani is actually a recognized language so the Sorani community who
live there can have schooling in Soranii and the road signs are in Sorani
salami which isn't the case with them Kurmanji in the Turkish part of Kurdistan and
other parts of Kurdistan so I think Sorani...
It's a bit like Egyptian Arabic compared to the other Arabic the Egyptian Arabic
has a good sort of media what's the word I'm looking for likes it's sort of like
globally when you've got to search for something on the internet and in Arabic
a lot of the materials are in Egyptian Arabic because there's a big film
industry there there's a big TV industry and if you compare Sorani Kurdish with
the other Kurdish languages there's a lot of Sorani
stuff on the internet and Sorani films however there's not much learning
material still so there is learning material but it's the orthography of
how it's transcribed into the Latin alphabet varies so much from book to book
so you have to kind of take everything with a pinch of salt and this kind of
inspires me to learn Sorani through the Persio-Arabic script and because I already
know some Arabic and I know all the character (alphabet) so there's not you know it's
not going to be a steep learning curve for me and take it from that angle so I
think once I get into Sorani more I'm going to be learning this lovely
language from the Persian-arabic script and you know which is how it's meant to be
learnt anyway so when I went to my barber's today I said to him
(Speaking Sorani) which is which kind of music do you like and
again he didn't really answer so I thought OK no problem
No problem.
It doesn't matter.
No problem
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