Teri lì’fya leNa’vi a tsanumultxa loleiu säflä! Last week’s Na’vi for Beginners class at the Avatar Meet-up in Seattle was, I think, a great success. I believe we had more than 40 students from the Avatar community in the class, which lasted about an hour and 45 minutes. Three members of the lì’fyaolo’–pxesmuk alu Prrton sì Txonä Rolyu sì ’Oma Tirea–co-taught with me. The Museum provided excellent facilities, we made good use of the beautiful supporting slides Prrton had created, and everyone seemed to have a good time. I know I did! It was great to reunite with old friends from the Community and meet new ones. And hopefully some learning went on as well. 😀
I was also impressed by the Meet-Up itself. From what I saw, the organization was top-notch and the supporting materials were totally professional. Plus the Clan Dinner was ftxìlor nìngay! Seykxel sì nitram to everyone who helped make the Meet-Up happen!
As a little listening exercise, I’ve recorded the introductory remarks in Na’vi with which I began the class. The idea was not for most people in the class to understand it–this was, after all a class for beginners–but just for everyone to get an idea of what Na’vi sounds like when spoken at more or less normal conversational speed. Prrton kindly served as consecutive interpreter after every few sentences.
Here’s the sound file: Class Introduction
And here’s the Na’vi text (as a Word file): Class Intro–Na’vi and free English translation: Class Intro–English.
My suggestion is to listen first to the Na’vi without any help to see how much you can get on your own. (I made use of some recently introduced vocabulary, so you might want to review the last blog post beforehand.) Then take a look at the text and translation to check how you did.
Nìvingkap, we now have a Na’vi toast:
Nitram nì’aw! ‘Happy only!’
Hayalovay!
ETA July 30–Here are the text files in RTF format for those who can read these more easily:
Tewti, mi oe tsun tslivam txampxìt. 🙂 But stuck here.
Kosman nìngay, ma Karyu.
Fayfne’upxare lom larmu oer stum mezìsìto! Awngal kin fayfnetskxekengit fte mikyunä tskxekeng sivi, tivìng mikyun sì tslivam.
Lolängu oer tìngäzìk fwa tslam ’awlo a tìng mikyun. Slä fa fwa leyn nìmun slu sìltsan nì’ul’ul.
Tafral, ngeyä fì’upxareri oe new ngar piveng a kllpata txe’lanä san irayo nìtxan!
TXANTSAN! always good to get some of the stuff that happened at the meetup. especially for those of us unfortunate enough not to have been able to attend. Irayo ma Karyu Pawl
Are any of the training materials, such as Prrton’s slides mentioned above, available? Irayo!
Honestly, ma Paul, you are the best speaker of Na’vi, ever. (Sure, you are its creator, but still…)
One of the best 😉
Lu aylapo a tsun nìltsan pivlltxe!
Nìvingkap, ma Karyu Pawl, oeru sì Txonä Rolyur sì Prrtonur meuia. Pxoeru prrte’ loleiu! 😀
Hey
I was just woundering if you have a word for sun?
i looked up and i cannot found one
so i told my self : why don’t you just try !
And i came with : Atanhì
Once i created the word i was woundering if their is some logic in my word so i look into the lexicon and i was impressed by self!
Atan is light
and tanhi star
So i think i realy found a good one here!
There is already a word for ‘sun’ – look for tsawke 😉
pls help. What does this mean?
Ftxozäri aylrrtok ngaru, trr livu kosman!
Literally it’s ‘as for the happy occasion, smiles to you, may the day be wonderful’ – the first part is what we use for ‘congratulations’ (for a birthday, anniversary etc.)