Dji so asèksuel, mins dismètant mès r'chêrches da mi, au c'mincemint, dji pinseûve qui dj' èsteûve bi (Dji rissinteûve l' min.me po tortos… Après pou sawè qu' c' èsteûve “rin”, ç' a stî plus malaujî xD)

L' intolèrance èst one idéye fwârt malaujîye pou mi, dji n' li comprind nin. Min.me d'on pwint d'vûwe lojike, vos n' avoz pas d'ôte tchôses à fé ???

Brèf, audjoûrdu, c'èst li djoû conte l' homofobîy, li bifobîy èt li transfobîy. Min.me si tos lès djoûs d'vrin.n ièsse come ça. Audjoûrdu, nos nos mètans avoû lès couleûr di l' aîr-diè 🏳️‍🌈,🟥🟧⬜🩷🟪,🏳️‍⚧️,🟥🟦🟪 :D

#walon

This text was originally written in French and has been translated, in part, with the help of a translation service. (I'm already practising with one language, so I can't be juggling three at the same time!)

WEEKLY UPDATE 1 ˖ ࣪‧₊˚⋆✩٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ✩

Introduction

Hello there!

Here's the first update on my attempt to learn Walloon on my own, since I don't have time to breathe, let alone go to classes at the moment...

But instead of focusing on my declining mental health (sleep, come back, I love you!) , I'm going to tell you about my progress this week.

For personal reasons, I haven't been able to make as much progress as I'd have liked, but I think ‘three’ lessons a week seems to be a good compromise for me to get some sleep...

But then you think, what have I done this week?

Les leçons

As I have a memory like a goldfish, I made a nice little written document (made with LibreOffice writer, we love open source here) that I'm going to transcribe here :D

Le 13 ;

As I love conlangs, I wanted to try my hand at translating a short text. I don't know if it's right, but the aim was to have a bit of fun before diving into the serious stuff.

Here's the original post on Reddit

So what i needed to translate was this :

Hand in hand, we're standing strong Together we'll work out whatever is wrong! Hand in hand, we'll build a wall We'll form a chain of love that's stronger than it all!

After some times, i did this (as always, if someone out there knows wallon and can correct me, please do so !) :

Mwin dans l’ mwin, nos-èstans fwârts, Èchone, nos rèsoûrans tot ç’ qui n’ va nin Mwin dans l’ mwin, nos bâtirans on meur Nos fôrmerans one tchin.ne di amoûr pus fwârte qui tot !

(I didn't try to rhyme the sentences. Translating the whole thing almost literally was hard enough, so...)

I also did this first lesson , which enabled me to write this sentence:

Bondjoû ! On m’ lome Plumerin.ne. Dji d’mère à Intèrnèt. Dji so bin binauje di v’s awé rescontré ! Jusqu’à on djoû ! :D

Le 14 :0

I did the second lesson, which enabled me to see some expressions like “Vo-lès-là totes” or “J' qu' à bin rade”.

I've also seen how the words ‘Voici’ and ‘voilà’ are used in Walloon : i.e. I saw how the word was split in two.

And I also spent a lot of time trying to understand how ‘’that‘’ was used… Qué or quén- ? Also the term “How many” :D

Le 15

In English, there's no such thing as ‘vouvoiement’ or ‘tutoiement’, but in French it's very common. In Walloon too, but not for the same reasons. It's impolite to be on “ti”/tu terms with someone, you're always on “vos”/vous terms…

But for the most part it was just adding vocabulary to anki.

Anki and vocabularies ?

You can see it's just the beginning, I'm not very regular ahah it's not good but it's a start... I did 4 day out of 7...

I've got 129 vocabulary cards, which is not bad for 3 short lessons.

ENd ?

That was my first week. I know how to say hello and I can see how Walloon is constructed grammatically.

I'll see you next week :DD

#walon

This text was originally written in French and has been translated, in part, with the help of a translation service. (I'm already practising with one language, so I can't be juggling three at the same time!)

Introduction

Languages are very interesting because they represent the culture and ideology of a people and their way of thinking and transmitting messages. I think it's obvious that I love languages, given my passion for conlangs, which allows me to play with the different ways in which concepts and notions can be articulated in a language, as well as the different ways in which the grammar of a language can be formed.

But what I really enjoy is ‘learning’ languages.

Especially when they are close to something important to me.

Why am I telling you this? Because this text – and those that will follow, I hope - is a pure product of the social networking era and of our needless need to overshare ourselves: I'm going to write about my path towards mastering one language in particular, Wallon.

I'm not going to pull out information from Wikipedia (which, even in English, is very interesting by the way! : Walloon language).

But it's important for me to say that in the last century (1900 onwards), Walloon was virtually forbidden to be spoken in schools and other public places. The result: in less than a century, almost the entire population no longer knows how to speak Walloon.

My grandmother spoke Wallon, I can't.

I didn't like it.

So, instead of passively accepting the fact that the language of my ancestors was near to be no longer spoken, I decided to learn to write and speak it.

And to force myself to keep to this commitment, this learning, every week I'm going to make a summary of what I've done on the subject during that week (texts, words, grammar, etc...). I'm doing it on my own, not because I'm lazy, but because I'm unable, at the moment, to go to the few small evening classes available in Belgium (time constraints, geography...).

Anyway, that was the intro. For the next few, it won't be there. Welcome to my adventure! :D

Learning

Because I'm self-taught, I learn by writing different sentences. But I also use a very interesting website which is a goldmine for self-taught learners: Beljike.be

Well, so far I've really been concentrating on les noms

Exercises and case studies

I'm sure there are mistakes, as I'm just starting out, but you have to start somewhere. Compilation of what I've tried to do so far:

• Fanfic Title : Li song dau Koltira which mean “Koltira's blood”.

• A small texte in the above fanfic :

Èt vos m’ dimandez, m’ Madame dè l’ Mwârt, vos m’ dimandez qu’ dji frè po l’ rawè d’ novia à mès costés ? Dji vos dîrè « tortos ». Nin pace qu’ dj’ a nin tûsé èt dji sèprè nin dîre au jusse lès limites do c’qu’ dji so capâbe. Dji vos dît « tortos », pace qui v’s èstiz là, quand dji v’s a ôrdonè dins l’ timps do l’ rilachî èt ci maugré tot. Dji vos dît « tortos », pace qu’ sins li dji so rin, li qui èst m’-y âme, mi-y song, èt li rèstant d’ l’ umânité qui dj’a nin pus.

Which translate to :

And you ask me, My Deathlady, you ask me what I would do to have him back by my side ? I would tell you « everything ». Not because I haven't thought about it, and I wouldn't know the limits of what I'm capable of. I say « everything », because you were there when I ordered you to go and free him against all odds. I say « everything », because without him, I am nothing, he who is my soul, my blood, and the rest of humanity that I no longer have.

• A ficlet Fanfic : Lès biscwîts sont l' vîye : fanprompt do 4 awous' (Biscuit)

END

So there you have it, I hope to do more translating and writing next time because it's pretty empty right now...

Thanks for reading! :D

#walon