Hey! I'm glad you're back with videos! =) As a language enthusiast living in Brazil, wanting to learn the languages of indigenous peoples and being probably autistic myself, I know how it feels. All the part of people not understanding fundamental linguistic concepts is always a big challenge to deal with. I had some online classes with indigenous people trying to teach their language, but the difficulty in communication between them and the students (as both lacked a basic linguistic background) was huge. There were grammatical aspects like case, infixation, inclusive and exclusive we, etc, and fonological aspects such as long and short vowels and consonants, that the teacher understood simply because they were a native speaker but were unable to explain to the students in a way they could understand. I could grasp some things because of my linguistic knowledge, but other things were also very difficult to me when I had no previous knowledge of anything about the language's grammar. And there's almost no available material to study, and when there is some, it is often from missionaries trying to convert indigenous people to Christianity. Kind of disheartening. 🥲
Hey! I'm glad you're back with videos! =)
As a language enthusiast living in Brazil, wanting to learn the languages of indigenous peoples and being probably autistic myself, I know how it feels.
All the part of people not understanding fundamental linguistic concepts is always a big challenge to deal with. I had some online classes with indigenous people trying to teach their language, but the difficulty in communication between them and the students (as both lacked a basic linguistic background) was huge. There were grammatical aspects like case, infixation, inclusive and exclusive we, etc, and fonological aspects such as long and short vowels and consonants, that the teacher understood simply because they were a native speaker but were unable to explain to the students in a way they could understand. I could grasp some things because of my linguistic knowledge, but other things were also very difficult to me when I had no previous knowledge of anything about the language's grammar.
And there's almost no available material to study, and when there is some, it is often from missionaries trying to convert indigenous people to Christianity. Kind of disheartening. 🥲