#romani:practice

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Level Up Challenge (Romani): Day 15

Prompt: Learn 5 new words and use them in a sentence.

(I’m pretty behind on these, I’ll possibly try to catch up or possibly just skipped what I missed :/)

tista - quite

Si tista shil ke si o ivend. - It's quite cold because it's the winter

mako - poppy

Ande i bar si yekh mako. - In the garden there's a poppy.

drab - medicine

Murro murtano chi xal pesko drab. - My cat does not eat his medicine.

inkrel - to hold

Inkrav e bukfa. - I hold the book.

kecavo - such

Ashundem kecavi paramicha p'o Radio Romano. - I heard a story like that on Radio Romano.

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Level Up Challenge (Romani): Day 4

Photo by LinedPhoto on Unsplash

Here’s my extremely iffy text (you know how I made that post about Romlex...well that was where we were at today so idk if half these words even exist):

Kaki fotografija si Tarantestar. Ande Taranteste si but Rroma kai den-duma ando Amerikani Kalderashitska. Kodo si o dialekto kai sikav. Chi gelem ka Taranteste, numa gelem ka Kanadate, ka Montreal. Si but jiv ande kakja fotografija, thai but kamav o jiv. Vi akathe si but jiv. Numa ande fotografija o jiv perel. Thai-vi si but mobilija. Kamav o jiv maj but katar le mobilijandar.

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Level Up Challenge (Romani): Day 20

Prompt: Write about your day.

yes these posts are completely out of order now

Ages kerdem but buki. Wushtilem rano ando diminyatsa ke but tato sas murre khereste – murro dad bishterdyas te phandavel (?) o phiromasko. No, ramosardem trin lil, yekh sas murre veroste, thai dui sas murre amalinande. Pala kodole, kerdem buki murre traburya tsine. Ando mizmeri, gelem te phirav ka univerziteto. Sas but lungo drom. No, dav-duma vi murra amalinasa vi murre dadesa. Dikhlem televizhono thai akana ramov Rromanes, pa zhav te sovav!

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Level Up Challenge (Romani): Day 16

Prompt: Plan your day.

Ages musai te....

zhav klasate

phirav te kinav thud

sikav Rromani shib

ramov paramicha

ramov lil murre veroske

ginav La memòria de l'arbre

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Level Up Challenge (Romani) - Day 9

Prompt: Plan your day in the language.

Ages mangav te...

zhav te phirav

sikav e Rromani shib thai e Malayalicka

ginav murre klasake

ramov

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Level Up Challenge (Romani): Day 7

Prompt: Write a poem.

Hey look at me doing this at a reasonable hour for once

It was snowing outside the window and I just really love snow so I wrote a dumb poem about how much I love the snow:

Del jiv thaj le droma si parne

Ande l’kashtende gilaban le chirikle

Ando murre khereste vi me gilabav

Anda mundrimaste adi lumake kai beshav

I have no idea if this makes any sense at all, so corrections are welcome! Also I’m not sure whether to use the prepositional case after prepositions??? I’ve been getting very mixed messages about that and would appreciate more input.

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Level Up Challenge (Romani): Day 3

Prompt: Write about your day.

Murro Ges Rromanes

Ages chi kerdem but buki. Pomenisardem-ma oxto chasurya tha gelem ka klasate. Dem-duma murre amalensa. Kartozhisardem. Kerdem daro murra amalinake. Gindem tsirra bukfa numa chi gindem sar but kai manglem(?). Gindem murra amalinasa tha sas lashe. Thai-vi murri zeya dukhal tha chi kamav kodo. No, kodo sas murro ges.

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Late End of (3) Month(s) Reflection

De trin shona, sikav Rromani shib tha me sim but vesolo, but siklem. Siklem but vorbi, dashtiv-man te gilabav but gilya, tha akana mangav te dav-duma Rromanes averesa. Sim tsirra trist, ke nashti sas te sikav kako shon, sas bi-lasho shon. Numa mangav te akanash shai sikav Rromani shib palpale, thai shai-vi te dav-duma averesa. Si vi-lashi vi-shukar shib, but kamav la. Kam-sikav la, numa akana nashtiv-man. (Te manges te des-duma Rromanes mansa, phen mange!)

I've really enjoyed the past three months that I got to spend dedicating solely to Romani, as it's something that I've wanted to do for a while. I love Romani a lot (more than Catalan? possibly...) and it's a language that I want to learn properly and give its due respect, so I'm very glad that I got the chance to do that. Unfortunately, last month was not the most productive, for reasons I'm sure we all understand, and I didn't get the chance to reach my (somewhat ambitious) goals. I'm feeling a bit burnt out now, so I probably will be taking a bit of a break from doing serious learning, although maybe in a couple of weeks I'll be feeling more up to it. That being said, I'm definitely going to be coming back to studying Romani as soon as I feel up to it, as I want to make an actual improvement this year so I can talk to people!

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Dav-dúma Rrômanes - Week 1

Chi dav-dúma Rrômanes, núma mangav te dav-dúma Rrômanes. Chi sim Rrôm núma kamav le Rrômèn thai Rromani shib. Kamav Rromane gilya, thai mangav te gilibav Rrômanes.