Rosetta Stone Releases Navajo Language Software

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | August 25, 2010 | ABQNews Staff

[Retired Greyhound]

Indeed.

Using the Navajo codes was a stroke of genius. Bless those who served.

[napscoordinator]

I don’t necessarily think it is worth the money unless you really want to learn. For your situation, I would not recommend Rosetta Stone as a lot of the program is listening. I only purchased it because I have always wanted to learn Spanish since I was in high school in the 80’s....I hope that your condition improves!!!

[CedarDave]

I hope that your condition improves!!!

Thanks; I think its focus related. And as I near retirement, probably not. LOL

[GunsAndBibles]

AM660 Window Rock AZ. 50,000 watts. I could pick it up on my Grundig portable from Northern Calif. Interesting music.

[Eepsy]

Check your local library’s website. Many allow you to use rosetta stone programs online if you have a library card.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"Navajo is very hard to learn,"

They all are.

My theory is that English world conquest was driven by the inability of Anglo-Saxons to understand or to learn other languages. They started with the Celts and wound up in China, Africa, and India before it was over.

[Osage Orange]

You are forgetting about ebonics.......

[Defiant]

There goes our advantage if/when it comes down to using code talkers again.

We can use Ebonics in the next war.

[The Great RJ]

11 Native American code talkers from South Dakota speaking Lakota, Nakota and Dakota dialects confounded both the Germans and Japanese in WW-II. The last survivor, Clarence Wolf Guts, died this past July. Read article here

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Navajo, traditionally an oral language
Really?
A guy I grew up with recently told me his goal in life was to translate The Bible into Navajo.***

I remember seeing lots of beer road signs in Navajo with English translations under it.

One showed a beer and the translation...STRONG MAN’S DRINK!

And

The FARMINGTON DAILY TIMES often has advertisements, in the Navajo language, for emloyment for various Navajo Nation positions.

[CougarGA7]

We can use Ebonics in the next war.

It has to have a translation in order to be useful.

[CT-Freeper]

The FARMINGTON DAILY TIMES often has advertisements, in the Navajo language, for employment for various Navajo Nation positions.

It says it's a traditionally oral language. It's not like the Navajo people used the Latin alphabet thousands of years ago to write. Almost any historically-oral language now can be at least somewhat written using the Latin alphabet.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**It says it’s a traditionally oral language.***

There was no written language except among the Mayas and Aztecs. Sequoyah of the Cherokees developed the first written language for his people. They still print a newspaper in Cheokee.

Many Indian languages have what sounds like hacks and spits and clicks which English does not have, requiring extra jots and tittles to accentuate these in the written language, but almost all have managed to develope a written language based on the english alphabet, especially since back in the 1970’s the Federal Government declared that ballots must also be printed in the “Indian Language”.