*kinwa in Quechua
Even cooler, today we had a Quechua lesson in my class! Jorge came in and gave us a lesson where he spoke ONLY in the Quechua Language. It was really amazing to hear someone speak to us in such an old and dying language. Even more interesting was the fact that none of us understood ANYthing that he was saying. Absolutely ZERO. And yet, he was still able to get the point across and get us talking and interviewing each other in Quechua. It was completely different from learning Spanish, Italian, or French that have cognates and root words similar to english. However, in just short of an hour we were able to
- conjugate both "to be" verbs
- greet someone
- express how we were feeling
- ask someone in return how they were feeling
- ask someone their name
- tell them our name
- express what country we were from
- express what state we were from
Try reading this OUTLOUD! (Its really hard, but fun) In parenthesis are what I THINK was the translation based on the context he was giving us.
This really great experience that I was not expecting!
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