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Rosetta Stone Releases Navajo Language Software
The Albuquerque Journal ^
| August 25, 2010
| ABQNews Staff
Posted on 08/25/2010 10:20:03 AM PDT by CedarDave
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"Navajo is very hard to learn," said Lorraine Manavi, language professor at San Juan College in Farmington ..."
The Japanese in WW-II found that out. Only a few codetalkers are still around, sad to say.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:20:06 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
To: LegendHasIt; Rogle; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:21:21 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
To: CedarDave
There goes our advantage if/when it comes down to using code talkers again.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:23:58 AM PDT
by
bgill
(K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: CedarDave
According to David Kahn, when the decision was made to use Navajoes as code talkers, research showed that there were only 12 linguists familar with Navajo outside the United States, none of them in Axis countries.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:25:47 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: CedarDave
I met a guy (non-Navajo) once that had spent many years on one of the reservations, think he was a teacher. He had learned the Navajo language, even though it was not required of him, and he spoke it fluently. I just remember thinking that it was a such a powerful, yet beautiful sounding language.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:27:12 AM PDT
by
LoneStarGI
(Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
To: bgill
There goes our advantage if/when it comes down to using code talkers again.
Learn Hebrew.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:28:00 AM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: CedarDave
This could come in handy if FCC and Odumbler get their way.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:28:27 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
To: CedarDave
Navajo, traditionally an oral languageReally?
A guy I grew up with recently told me his goal in life was to translate The Bible into Navajo.
At that time, he was trying to figure out how to learn Navajo.
A real idiot this guy is.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:29:44 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: CedarDave
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:32:24 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
To: CedarDave
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:33:37 AM PDT
by
Quix
(C THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: LoneStarGI
I just remember thinking that it was a such a powerful, yet beautiful sounding language.See post #9.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
To: LoneStarGI
With 12-16 tones . . . it’s a VERY difficult one to learn.
And then there’s male/female stuff.
Hazards aplenty.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:34:57 AM PDT
by
Quix
(C THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: CedarDave
Hmmm. Won’t play on my Firefox; works o.k. with IE.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:41:25 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
To: CedarDave
Rosetta Stone is so awesome. I have the Spanish Rosetta Stone and use it. I even go into McDonald’s and order in Spanish...it is quite fun especially when the person at the register is spanish and does not expect it from a White Guy.
To: CedarDave
listening now .... interesting ... cowboy country music and tribal ...
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:42:08 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Three things you don't discuss in public; politics, religion, and choice of caliber.)
To: CedarDave
I believe the
WWII Navajo code is the only code never to have been broken by an enemy.
Semper Fi ...
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:46:39 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: napscoordinator
I see the ads all the time. Is it really worth the money? About 1/3 those I work with speak Spanish. I’m challenged enough with English sometimes (I have a slight non-hearing related disability that makes understanding English rough sometimes [I have to ask folks to repeat themselves often so I can understand — will frequently run TV movies with captions on]. My hearing of “tones” in a hearing test is normal, but sometimes I have to ask speakers frequently to repeat.)
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:48:02 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
To: CedarDave
If you are serious about learning another language take a look at Pimsleur as well. That’s how I learned Russian.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:49:49 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Three things you don't discuss in public; politics, religion, and choice of caliber.)
To: Centurion2000
It’s a powerful station with 50,000 watts of power. They play good country music and out in the western boonies before satellite music it was the station to listen to.
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posted on
08/25/2010 10:55:19 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
To: CedarDave
They even talked in code in Navajo, and used undocumented Navajo slang words.
The USMC risked a very tiny chance that there was any linguistics professor in Imperial Japan who might have some dim working documentation of Navajo in the one dusty library book on Navajo ever published, but they would have had to be a Navajo on the reservation to understand their familiar banter, and then decipher the code they were speaking. Layers of complexity kept this valuable military resource safe from the enemy.
A Navajo US Army soldier was even captured and identified by the Japanese at Bataan then tortured into attempting to decipher Navajo Code Talker messages that he couldn't understand because it was in code. There's just no flippin' way that anyone would have had a hope of cracking the Navajo Code Talker's language. Just forget it.
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