I am a non-native who has been using the Mille Lacs Rosetta Stone course, and it's been really great and fun learning on my own privately. I have been hoping that if and when the opportunity comes to use Ojibwe with other people I will have the wherewithal to be a good neighbor to natives learning their language. Miigwech
My father helped run summer programs at White Earth Reservation, in the 70’s, so I had the great privilege of being immersed in Ojibwe culture, but I am not Indigenous. I learned a bit of Ojibwe, but lost it all. It’s amazing to hear it again, here on your channel. Thanks for keeping it alive.
I really appreciated hearing this from someone I respect so highly. As a non-native who is interested in learning the Ojibwe language but does not want to ruffle any feathers in doing so, I appreciate that I am welcome to learn. Miigwech Waagosh.
I am non native. I live near a native community and I am interested in learning their language. I really appreciate your veiws on this topic, thank you for making this video!
I think its a good idea actually. As I understand, learning Ojibwe will teach you to look at the world through the spiritual lens of annishinaabe culture
I recently made friends with an Ojibwe native and I am finding this very helpful in knowing how I can respect this friend and learning more about his culture. Thank you very much.
If someone non-native wants to learn native languages, please learn it. Learn about the meanings of the words and their roots, learn about the history behind them. Language is a bridge and a healer. As long as we approach things with a level of respect and are honest with ourselves and eachother, it can be beautiful.
I love learning Ojibway and the language has sounds and symbols that make connections between things which English doesn’t make (English makes different connections). I met with a sweet friend who I brought food and fee to for her to teach me Ojibwaymo and I’m just early in it. She has been teaching me so much more inside and around teaching the language, stories about how a word was used to tease or see someone in the community she grew up in, reasons why a word would never be used in some settings, ways of using a word that makes a joke that communicates two meanings. I also heard about the context of how kind people were, etiquette, and sadly how to hint that someone was not to come out and be seen by the people stealing the children away to residential school. Nicknames and games, if I didn’t carry friend-love for her beyond to all the people from her town before, these stories made certain I would. As a school teacher I try to teach some of the words to Ojibway, Cree Pinoy and other settler children in a way that shares that care and fun. It matters a great deal that another Anishinaabekwe elder asked me too, and I know I’m not trying to be a pretendian but someone with no culture of Origen of my own who really appreciates Ojibway and feels that we should all learn to speak some of the languages that are from where we live, in Manitou-Abe.
I think it's ok. People in the past had to learn how to speak more than one language, because communication between individuals and groups, for the benefit of mutual interest. Especially, when people who immigrated to the United States and interacted with the many different languages of our own country and the many First Nations People. Miigwich for sharing Anton! 👣🦅💕💐💐💐💐💐
I learned a little bit of several African languages when I was working and researching in Africa a long time ago. I love learning languages so I enjoyed learning a few of the many African languages in Africa when I was younger and healthier.. For some scholars, writing books or conveying knowledge in the local African language is an anti-imperial and anti-colonial action. However, some Africans felt that Europeans might be spying on Africans by learning their languages. There was a sense that Europeans were intruding into private African spaces. Another factor in language learning is innate language skills. When I learned European languages as a teenager and young adult, I realized that some people have aptitude for languages and others have less natural language learning skill. Anyone can learn new languages, it is just easier when you are very young (under the age of 6) and some people will have more talent for languages. I can't carry a tune, and have the musical ability of a yowling cat. Yowling cats sound better than I do. With a lot of time and musical training, I could manage to not embarrass myself while singing in a choir. So, skills and talents vary (and of course, comfort and ease with college and academia). (I also used to tell my statistics students about my horrible singing ability because I wanted to lower their stress level about math skills.). Finally, thank you for these very short language lessons - I have chronic fatigue and can no longer learn languages as quickly as I used to. Miigwech.
Thank you for explaining to me why native American languages are not like any other language. There's the past suppression that we Europeans forget about. And the fact that everybody else speaks one and the same language. That's not the case over here. I reach three countries with three different languages within an hour's drive. But learning an indigenous language is not like learning Hungarian because you live one hour from the border and you can't find a restaurant in Győr because it's not called restaurant there. It rather is like learning a small minority language with a dire history of suppression.
One should always learn the language of the place in which they are living! If you move to France you should learn enough French to at least say that you are not a speaker but you are trying your best to learn the language. Well here in(as my Mom would say) THIS PLACE(she wouldn't say america), you should learn all you can about the people in whose land you reside. For me, growing up in a ghetto in Albany NY I feel obliged to learn about the Mohawk and the Mahican/Mohican cultures. It's not about learning the language to "take over", it's about honoring those who came before the European. It is only right..... I encourage all of my friends from that area to youtube Tom Porter and start by listening to how his Grandmother taught him to give thanks. Be you Anglican , Episcopalian, Catholic or whatever. Learn more and more about the part of Turtle Island and it's protectors in which you live. Between you and James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw, and the Haudenosaunee languages videos, I am going to learn all I can, including knowledge of land rights cases, language, and culture, yes, even at 76yrs old.
It would seem to me to be labeled a “pretendian” if i tried to speak ojibwe in a community where everyone also speaks english? On the other hand i felt ashamed of myself when i worked on a reserve and couldn’t communicate with the older folks there
So I am all for others to use other languages. There are may ways this could pergress and learner as there are a lot of similar words out there that are verry close in meaning As well in Ontario Canada there are a lot of anishinabek named towns and places as well as other provinces are starting to do the simuler things but English or French and the indigenous people language But this is not enough as the issues left over from colonization and the forced relocation the 60s scoops and the residential schools and the mixing of indigenous languages here in Canada in the late 80 early 90s leaves some herdals in the way
That is an extremly stupid question in itself. Like asking, should anyone learn any language. I am a native German and everybody is native somewhere, respectively has its roots somewhere. Tell me one reason why other people should not learn the respective native language? As far as I know languages are there for communication and understanding each other and everybody learning another language contributes to a better communication and understanding with this nation.
I know where you are coming from and I agree for the most part, except for the idea that it is a stupid question. Feelings can be complicated, and we should look to heal the hurt they stem from, but to call the reasons why people might be apprehensive "stupid," is unfair.
@@so9175 I belong to the people who put logic over feelings - a great start to support healing. And don't think I didn't know what psychic pain means. I am thankful for everybody who told me "stop being a sissy", when I tried to. It was this that got me thinking and reflecting more than everything else. And yes, I am not "nice" - do know, what we say about "nice" in Germany? "Nice" is the little sister of "shit".
I am a non-native who has been using the Mille Lacs Rosetta Stone course, and it's been really great and fun learning on my own privately. I have been hoping that if and when the opportunity comes to use Ojibwe with other people I will have the wherewithal to be a good neighbor to natives learning their language. Miigwech
My father helped run summer programs at White Earth Reservation, in the 70’s, so I had the great privilege of being immersed in Ojibwe culture, but I am not Indigenous. I learned a bit of Ojibwe, but lost it all. It’s amazing to hear it again, here on your channel.
Thanks for keeping it alive.
I really appreciated hearing this from someone I respect so highly. As a non-native who is interested in learning the Ojibwe language but does not want to ruffle any feathers in doing so, I appreciate that I am welcome to learn. Miigwech Waagosh.
I am non native. I live near a native community and I am interested in learning their language. I really appreciate your veiws on this topic, thank you for making this video!
My mother used to say the more languages we speak, the more friends we can have.
I think its a good idea actually. As I understand, learning Ojibwe will teach you to look at the world through the spiritual lens of annishinaabe culture
I recently made friends with an Ojibwe native and I am finding this very helpful in knowing how I can respect this friend and learning more about his culture. Thank you very much.
If someone non-native wants to learn native languages, please learn it. Learn about the meanings of the words and their roots, learn about the history behind them. Language is a bridge and a healer. As long as we approach things with a level of respect and are honest with ourselves and eachother, it can be beautiful.
Thank you for this. You've given us much to think about. I'd love to hear your thoughts on land acknowledgments.
I love learning Ojibway and the language has sounds and symbols that make connections between things which English doesn’t make (English makes different connections). I met with a sweet friend who I brought food and fee to for her to teach me Ojibwaymo and I’m just early in it. She has been teaching me so much more inside and around teaching the language, stories about how a word was used to tease or see someone in the community she grew up in, reasons why a word would never be used in some settings, ways of using a word that makes a joke that communicates two meanings. I also heard about the context of how kind people were, etiquette, and sadly how to hint that someone was not to come out and be seen by the people stealing the children away to residential school. Nicknames and games, if I didn’t carry friend-love for her beyond to all the people from her town before, these stories made certain I would. As a school teacher I try to teach some of the words to Ojibway, Cree Pinoy and other settler children in a way that shares that care and fun. It matters a great deal that another Anishinaabekwe elder asked me too, and I know I’m not trying to be a pretendian but someone with no culture of Origen of my own who really appreciates Ojibway and feels that we should all learn to speak some of the languages that are from where we live, in Manitou-Abe.
I clicked on this video because I thought that it was Giancarlo Esposito.
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I forgot to thank you for this video, it surprisingly relates with a language situation in my country.@@anton.treuer
I think it's ok. People in the past had to learn how to speak more than one language, because communication between individuals and groups, for the benefit of mutual interest. Especially, when people who immigrated to the United States and interacted with the many different languages of our own country and the many First Nations People. Miigwich for sharing Anton! 👣🦅💕💐💐💐💐💐
Thanks! I liked what you said , I have watched a few of your videos and enjoy how you present ideas
I learned a little bit of several African languages when I was working and researching in Africa a long time ago. I love learning languages so I enjoyed learning a few of the many African languages in Africa when I was younger and healthier.. For some scholars, writing books or conveying knowledge in the local African language is an anti-imperial and anti-colonial action. However, some Africans felt that Europeans might be spying on Africans by learning their languages. There was a sense that Europeans were intruding into private African spaces.
Another factor in language learning is innate language skills. When I learned European languages as a teenager and young adult, I realized that some people have aptitude for languages and others have less natural language learning skill. Anyone can learn new languages, it is just easier when you are very young (under the age of 6) and some people will have more talent for languages. I can't carry a tune, and have the musical ability of a yowling cat. Yowling cats sound better than I do. With a lot of time and musical training, I could manage to not embarrass myself while singing in a choir. So, skills and talents vary (and of course, comfort and ease with college and academia). (I also used to tell my statistics students about my horrible singing ability because I wanted to lower their stress level about math skills.).
Finally, thank you for these very short language lessons - I have chronic fatigue and can no longer learn languages as quickly as I used to. Miigwech.
Thank you for explaining to me why native American languages are not like any other language. There's the past suppression that we Europeans forget about. And the fact that everybody else speaks one and the same language. That's not the case over here. I reach three countries with three different languages within an hour's drive. But learning an indigenous language is not like learning Hungarian because you live one hour from the border and you can't find a restaurant in Győr because it's not called restaurant there. It rather is like learning a small minority language with a dire history of suppression.
I think when one starts to play gatekeeper, it generally does not lead to good things.
One should always learn the language of the place in which they are living! If you move to France you should learn enough French to at least say that you are not a speaker but you are trying your best to learn the language. Well here in(as my Mom would say) THIS PLACE(she wouldn't say america), you should learn all you can about the people in whose land you reside. For me, growing up in a ghetto in Albany NY I feel obliged to learn about the Mohawk and the Mahican/Mohican cultures. It's not about learning the language to "take over", it's about honoring those who came before the European. It is only right..... I encourage all of my friends from that area to youtube Tom Porter and start by listening to how his Grandmother taught him to give thanks. Be you Anglican , Episcopalian, Catholic or whatever. Learn more and more about the part of Turtle Island and it's protectors in which you live. Between you and James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw, and the Haudenosaunee languages videos, I am going to learn all I can, including knowledge of land rights cases, language, and culture, yes, even at 76yrs old.
It would seem to me to be labeled a “pretendian” if i tried to speak ojibwe in a community where everyone also speaks english? On the other hand i felt ashamed of myself when i worked on a reserve and couldn’t communicate with the older folks there
So I am all for others to use other languages. There are may ways this could pergress and learner as there are a lot of similar words out there that are verry close in meaning
As well in Ontario Canada there are a lot of anishinabek named towns and places as well as other provinces are starting to do the simuler things but English or French and the indigenous people language
But this is not enough as the issues left over from colonization and the forced relocation the 60s scoops and the residential schools and the mixing of indigenous languages here in Canada in the late 80 early 90s leaves some herdals in the way
That is an extremly stupid question in itself. Like asking, should anyone learn any language. I am a native German and everybody is native somewhere, respectively has its roots somewhere. Tell me one reason why other people should not learn the respective native language? As far as I know languages are there for communication and understanding each other and everybody learning another language contributes to a better communication and understanding with this nation.
I know where you are coming from and I agree for the most part, except for the idea that it is a stupid question. Feelings can be complicated, and we should look to heal the hurt they stem from, but to call the reasons why people might be apprehensive "stupid," is unfair.
@@so9175 I belong to the people who put logic over feelings - a great start to support healing. And don't think I didn't know what psychic pain means. I am thankful for everybody who told me "stop being a sissy", when I tried to. It was this that got me thinking and reflecting more than everything else. And yes, I am not "nice" - do know, what we say about "nice" in Germany? "Nice" is the little sister of "shit".