How to say Colors in Navajo / Diné Bizaad Episode 25 

Thank you for being kind with appreciation & wisdom. Happy you have a dine" friend. Great news to share. Hugs from Navajo Grandma

Well you are fun too, that is why you believe I am fun. Happy thoughts. Navajo Grandma

LOL!! Hugs from Navajo Grandma

Glad you like them! It is fun making them and hope you like to enunciate as that is what is part of the exercise in being able to say these words. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

I just loved reading your comment. Excellent teaching comment. Hugs from Navajo Grandma

Talk about repetition I should be making more language videos but I haven't and I pray I will be doing that soon. Hugs always for your wonderful desire to learn Navajo. What a salute to you. Love and hugs. Navajo Grandma

I also came here from Duolingo. Much clearer and easier to follow in this video!

@@LS-sg8rb Well enjoy and continue to practice. Hugs from Navajo Grandma

I am 68 years young and was taken from my family and adopted as an infant. With no information to go on I am ever grateful to learn any/all true things about who I came from after Father/Mother. Thank you for this channel.

i also came here from duolingo. ahéheeʼ masani 🙏

Thank you and how wonderful. Hugs from Navajo Grandma. "axhehee" (thank you)

You are so welcome! You made me laugh. When I was in Japan, of course they had Britain as allies. So a lot of the British come to Japan and have intermarried, teach English to the Japanese. You have to laugh and giggle to hear a Japanese speak Nihongo(Japanese language) with an English accent. Eyebrow raising but it is common there. Sorry that is what you reminded me of. I want to add more language videos as I see the need is very great for those outside the NN and even within. Happy to help. But we keep it simple dimple. I don't want to go deep as I would rather these children and others to simple communicate and to enjoy and find that it is possible. It is when they return then their people will definitely sometimes crudely tell them how to say more. That is what they do to me even though I know how to speak. They get angry that I don't sound like a reservation Navajo with their drawl which does sound kind of not good. So never mind. I know what to do. Thank you. Navajo Grandma

THANK YOU. Navajo Grandma

Wonderful! You should do so well. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

The Silent Bean, I am pretty sure you are not silent. Love the Name tho. I am so proud of you for trying as consistently trying does make perfect. Just keep it simple. As you do, you will not frustrate your will power to learn, but keep empowering yourself to be successful. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma

You are sure welcome and thank you for being so receptive. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma (remember practice makes perfect)

Hi Pearl, loved your comment. What a trooper, learning and being a darn pretty language nerd. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Pretty girl there you are again with your precious comments and oh, that ending is impressive. Love you too. Navajo Grandma

Practice makes perfect. Navajo Grandma

You are so welcome and I commend your teachable spirit. Practice makes perfect. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

It is learning to enunciate. Keep trying. Hugs. Navajo grandma

I had heard it was more Finnish thus I conversed with some Finnish folks and sure enough I was so surprised. We talked and I listened to them and it was amazing to hear their enunciations and how the glottals were exact in so many words and how they had that thli sound. So interesting. Navajo Grandma

Supersoap4, yes you can make the sounds. Remember grandma said, "she can hear you trying." If you are alone then gurgle away or whatever it is you sound like. Who cares? I don't. I love when I hear my grandkids try to say my Dine' Bizaad and it makes me giggle. So what, its fun fun fun. Enjoy supersoap4 and keep watching and learning. Proud of you for trying. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Learning how to create and intone sound is always challenging when learning a new language. The "slashed l" in the Dine Bizaad is actually pretty easy. Smile with your lips barely open, let the front of your tongue rest against your teeth, and put your tongue against the roof of your mouth-- NOW, just let air blow out around your tongue. Surprise! You can do it! Next is the glottal stop, like an apostrophe between two parts of the written word or phrase. Say the English words "Johnny earns" and "Johnny yearns". When you hear the difference, you hear the glottal stop. Shi'ma sani you are the best teacher ever. Sometime, have someone let us hear the beautiful "Rain Chant."

You are so welcome and hope you can learn to enunciate these words and make them a part of your language. Hugs from Navajo Grandma

"What a yummie name!" As a child when Lucky Charms came out and we were eating our Kelloggs corn flakes, which we believed was bland instead of Frosty flakes and Lucky Charms. Great name with wonderful happy thoughts. Marshmallows in my brain. So yes, thank you for watching my video on enunciating colors in Dine' Bizaad. You did well I know it. As we listen we hear and our tongues and brains pick it up and we learn to say it phonetically. I always put my Navajo words phonetically which are just the way its sounds and not spelled correctly. It helps to say the words. Thank you for trying and being such a good Navajo Grandma subscriber. I have been gone and didn't answer all the questions. So now Grandma is a busy bee answering all her comments. I love to do this myself. I get to know you and that makes me happy and fills my soul with Hozho.. Keep up the great work, you know this is one of the hardest languages to speak but you can do it. Phonetically. Happy Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Shelley Ross as you subscribe and watch and learn from Navajo Grandma, you will always get a super hugs daily. Grandma loves you so. I tell you we have the cream of the crop here in our Navajo Grandma family. Love you always. Navajo Grandma

Ahehee back to you for watching and learning. Navajo Grandma

Red. Good job!

@@NavajoGrandma 🤣🤣 you know l like lichxi🤣

@@jo-oe9zg You look pretty in red!!

@@NavajoGrandma we both look awesome in lichxhi ..we shine ...😉💫

Great job and thank you Cristina for working so hard to enunciate these fun colors in the Dine’ Bizaad. I could hear you! Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Thank you. Grandma

Do you remember your colors girl??

Thank you for watching and supporting grandma. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Vera, you made me laugh. Practice makes perfect pretty girl. Navajo Grandma

Wonderful! Navajo Grandma

Glad you are watching grandma’s videos and hope you enjoyed enunciating the words well. Good job. Navajo Grandma

Nido Ahehee shi yazhi. Ahehee for watching and saying your colors. I had forgotten the color purple then it somehow popped into my head, thank goodness. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

You are so welcome. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma

If that the only problems you have, it’s amazing. Navajo Grandma

Well yes and it is why I say practice makes perfect. Glad you tried and thank you again. Navajo Grandma

Keep learning and watching. It’s simple dimple. Hugs for hanging in there. Navajo Grandma

Karen, proud of you for trying and I heard you enunciating the words. Great job!! Smile. Navajo Grandma

Daniel, thank you for having such an appreciative heart. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Charlotte the 1-10 is on its way. Love that everyone is enjoying these micro mini lessons. They are fun. Navajo Grandma

You're welcome. Glad you are trying to learn. Practice does make perfect. LOL! Navajo Grandma

@@NavajoGrandma its honestly like muscle memory , it's like i already know this language somehow, like its in my soul or something. i will continue to practice. oh and btw you are amazing. thanks again

@@christaprice5393 do you know why you think I am amazing? Because you recognize that same virtue is within you first & you recognize it in Grandma what is in you first. So first "you" are amazing & see that gift in others to speak it. I live you for who you are AMAZING!! Hugs from God to you and hugs from Grandma too. Navajo Grandma

@@christaprice5393 👌😎💗💗💗 Wonderful. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Naki Nááts'íilid ha'naa ninít'i̹',

Hi Natasha, great job. I can hear you. You are a trooper for being willing to learn dear one. As your Gma I send you hugs for learning. Navajo Grandma

I needed to hear this, you are just precious to speak so simply about your speaking Dine’ Bizaad. Glad you watched the Dine’ color video. Now you know more. Love you. Navajo Grandma

Your name doesn’t quite describe what a wonderful teachable person you are. I love that you were trying hard to enunciate and sound right. At times it will sound awkward but practice makes perfect, grandma knows. Speaking different languages is a gift and a blessing. I speak Japanese just to get by now, but in Japan it was different, I love the Japanese people. Grandma loves you too. Twoo Si Kazz (twooh-sih-khaz) grandmas phonetical way to pronounce are In parenthesis. This is cold water but also ice in Dine’ Bizaad. Hope that helps. Hispanics enunciate well. Love you. Navajo Grandma

Hi Joyce, good for you. Practice does make perfect. Wonderful. Navajo Grandma

Soo Yun Kim, well if I can say your name, you surely can pronounce the colors. Keep it simple, listen, hear, and just blurt it out. Sometimes even when we are alone and some folks are shy even when they are alone, just say it. It doesn't matter if its wrong at first, if you listen, you will start to hear clearly and boom, you will say the words perfectly. Have patience, remember, grandma says: "Patience is a virtue." Hugs from Navajo Grandma for trying and you will succeed.

@@NavajoGrandma Probably one of the reasons is I am not familiar with Ł or Tłʼ sound. I'll be coming to your channel and other Native American channel often to train my ears. Thank you for the reply. Have a wonderful day, Navajo Grandma.

So this is the difference between left and right brain folks. There are linguists whom you an argue with or speak with, "I am not that person." Attributively: example sentence: A black bear. In this example, black is an adjective; it is describing the appearance of the bear. Because it is placed before the noun (bear), the word black is an attributive adjective. Shash łizhin Predicatively: example sentence: The bear is black. (The bear is the subject, is is the linking verb, black is the predicate adjective) Shash e' łizhin I keep my Dine' Bizaad simple. I sometimes say a noun, verb, etc., but I do not want to get into the semantics because #1 this is not an CLASS, it is learning to simply speak. I know, I know, you need to know the semantics but when you learned English as a child your mother didn't say this is a subject, a noun, or verb, but at school you did learn, at home you listen and you learned. Same here. I am not a Grammer teacher, I know while being in Japan, I listened, I heard, I enunciated, I learned, I never went over to say, "gee where did that subject go and what noun did you use Shima san." It was just understood and you practiced and learned. That is my world. There are Navajo teachers who really get into the semantics I would rather you go to them and enjoy learning in that fashion. I hope you understand. Here we follow and learn and sometimes we say this is a noun etc. I also hope I clarified the above about the black bear. Axhehee. Thank you for desiring to learn. Navajo Grandma

Just an fyi: when you say Shash 'eh łizhiní (eh is specifically speaking about the Shash(the bear). eh specifies any subject you are referring to and nothing else. So if you say Shash 'eh łizhiní (you are specifically referring or talking only about the bear) EH IS THE LINKING VERB, THE COLOR SPECIFIC TO THE BEAR) The other is A Black Bear. Read below.

Yá'át'ééh Navajo Grandma! Shiká íínílwodgo ahéheeh, baa ahééh nisin. Rolland yinishyé. Diné bizaad bíhoosh'aah. Diné bizaad shił nizhoni, ndi ayóo shił nantł'ah. Shí éí doo Bilagáana nishłįi da, France-di shighan. "Breton Grandpa" nishłį. You're perfectly right about children learning a language without bothering about grammar, ndi shí éí doo awéé' nishłįi da, tsosts'idiin dóó bi'aan dįį' shinááhai ! Irvy Goossen dóó Young & Morgan binaaltsoos bił 'naashnish. Most works on Navajo devote much space to the verb system and tend to neglect the other parts of speech like adjectives. Jó nizhóní, hágoónee ! @@NavajoGrandma

Yes I will as I am in t he middle of this Navajo Nation Presidential Forum and speaking at Chapters that is slowing me down. I love you and promise I will. Hugs to you always for your desire to learn!! Hugs galore, Navajo Grandme

@@NavajoGrandma THANK YOU!!!! 😄 🖤🤍💛💙

@@Blackgoldart1 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Some of the words are not easy to pronounce if that is why you are saying Aaaaaaas. Keep trying. Navajo Grandma

This is how you say Jaguar: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí (description of a carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America. Scientific name: Panthera onca. Here is how you say it phonetically: SHA-DI-AH-DI NASH-DEW-I-TSO THLI-KIZH-I-JEE I hope you can enunciate that? That above is called phonics. The way people spelled and wrote and spoke long ago. They wrote what they heard. Now if you had a missing tooth or teeth the phonics was wrong and if one was deaf even more trouble, then the ones with no teeth or missing teeth messed the word up and people heard words entirely wrong. Thus the words were not entirely correct and that is why we have problems with genealogy history of families that come out wrong at times. Enough. Navajo Grandma (Just kow this is the correct way to say JAGUAR)

Well you know your Dine' language, but grandma learned it spelled this way. If I am wrong then a lot of folks are wrong too. I understand what you mean. Thank you for being so aware. Its wonderful. Navajo Grandma

Keep hissing as practice makes perfect. Love you for trying. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

Thank you and you are always welcome. Navajo Grandma