Barbara Nolan

First language is Nishnaabemwin, residential school survivor - living & loving life - each day. Wenesh geyaabi ge-kidyaamba? / What more can I say?

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

@AnishNation @Degaamonike Ndaa’aan wi mzinigan!
Miigwech!

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

@DtPine Nishin sa gii-zhitoyin ziisbaakwad miinwaa ziinsbaakdoonsan! Tommy ge’ii gii-zhitoon ziinsbaakwad!

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

@NancyPODonnell2 Aapji gnaajwi Nookomis Giizis ❤️❤️

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

It was with great honour that I accepted the post!

[Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @PaulJMeighan]

Awesome news, @BarbaraNolan!

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

Enh, mii go geyaabi maadiziyaanh!!

[Deb Pine @DtPine]

Mii go geyaabi maadiziyaanh... is this how a fluent speaker would say this

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

@apihtawikosisan Sendings pisitive vibes

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

@DtPine Esnaa kii mnonjgem!

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

@DtPine Gaa’ii gnabaj!

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

Ayaangwaamzig!

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

Native speakers will almost never correct your speaking if your errors didn't impede communication. So get the input you need and don't rely on corrections!

[Polyglot Conference @polyglot_confer]

Ever used video games to learn a language? ⠀
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Jared Gimbel has focused on many minority, indigenous and endangered languages. He studied Greenlandic & went to Greenland to make sure his game was as authentic. An amazing language learner! https://t.co/cN20SZTBGq

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

How do we learn to swim?
Children: Practice. Adults: Practice.
How do we learn about history?
Children: Read. Adults: Read.
How do we learn a language?
Children: Listen. Adults: Mmm, study grammar? What???

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" https://t.co/gg9n2wFXJH so clearly shows the difference between the "slow thinking" we use when studying a language consciously, and the "fast thinking" that we need to be able to speak a language.

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

The best way to know that people will understand you speaking a foreign language? Acquire it. When you have acquired the grammar and vocab you're using you know people will understand you, because you're not just using some abstract concepts that you saw in a book.

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

Babies aren't better than you at learning a language. They just have no way to escape having great Comprehensible Input. If you set up your environment the same way you can learn even faster than them.

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

Aapji maaba debwe!

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

Do you want to learn a language as well as a child? Be a child. Forget what you know about subjects, verbs, predicates, conjugations... Just accept what you hear as what it is, and let the meaning be evident from the situation. Your brain will do the rest of the work.

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

Some nishnaabemwin for https://t.co/AB2YTAKuMK

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

Aapji debwemgad Pablo ekdad!

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

Things that you don't need to learn a language (and shouldn't stop you from learning it): access to native speakers, opportunities to speak it, to be young, to struggle, talent, textbooks, a school, to live in the country.

[Barbara Nolan @BarbaraNolan]

Aaniish maanda anishnaabeg enji nsastaswaad?

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

When you immerse yourself in the language every day, you don't need exams or tests, you know that you are improving. You know how many new words you're understanding today that you didn't understand last week.

[Pablo Román @langdreamer]

When you immerse yourself in the language every day, you don't need exams or tests, you know that you are improving. You know how many new words you're understanding today that you didn't understand last week.