Hi Anita, I hope you keep it simple like Grandma does. We want to enjoy learning and not over burden ourselves. Learn the simple introduction, the fruits and veggies and how to count. If you can do just that, you are further ahead than about 89% of the Navajo Nation Dine'. Keep trying as practice makes perfect like Grandma says. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Wow, Ellen, what a compliment you gave to grandma. This is such a kindness and I am grateful to you. Thank you for subscribing and appreciating as you learn and enjoy. I always answer my comments myself and so appreciate those who subscribe and support Navajo Grandma. It is an honor. Have a wonderful week and know you are loved and needed here in our Navajo Grandma family. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I bought some bi-lingual books for children to help me learn. I use your videos to HEAR and the books to visualize it. I am learning my colors and shapes from the books and your video. Thanks!
I find it very interesting I know how to speak Navajo well but my children don’t. I raised my family in Minneapolis Minnesota I didn’t realize the language was gone till it was. My daughter has her family in Phoenix Arizona and she home school all her 6 children and she has a Navajo Class she’s teaching them. I love it.
I believe you are not the only parent who realizes this, unless they go home to the rez now and then. When I ran for Navajo President I explained to them, my reasons for not speaking Navajo well is because I had to leave the reservation and more so as a single mother of 7 children. What work is there? None! So we had to remain off the reservation and I also still speak it and totally understand it, but my children only say words here and there. One day I felt like I failed them but I forgave myself for thinking such, as I had to take care of them and I did. I graduated from a University by myself while nursing my baby, before that w/o child support, back then they didn't throw men in jail or prison for non-payment, at times we almost stayed in our car. So I used my California 4.0 GPA to get into the University and my scholarship more than paid for our existence. So I do understand when families live off the rez and our children end up only saying a few words and what a good wonderful daughter you raised. Home schooling and teaching them Dine' Bizaad. Wow!! So appreciate your comment as a lot of our Dine' folks do live off rez and experience the same things or they go home, have the kids live with gpa and gma for the summer which helps a great deal. The kids sometimes can't stand it either but it sure teaches them. At least when I grew up being raised by my Nali & Bizhi, we got up before the sun, gpa was praying with us outdoors in the cold til the sun came up, we had breakfast at like 5:30am. YIKES, I was so proud of myself for being so happy doing this. Chopping wood, helping gpa restore the hogans for the community, riding in a wagon, riding horses, herding sheep, making frybread outside, butchering sheep, going to NN Council meetings with my Nali a Council member. So much goodness I look back to and so thankful. I tell my children, you kids grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth LOL!! Thanks for allowing me to share and thank you so much for your comment. Love it. What is your clan? Your Mom & dad's. I might be related, yeah, to borrow money yeah again. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
Learning to say two of the yummie fruits and veggies i love. Thank you for being receptive enough to be able to enunciate and say these words. Happy thoughts. Navajo Grandma
GRANDMA, if the class room was this enjoyable when i was going to school i might have stuck with it, as you can guess by now i ran from school as soon as i was old enough to know it wasnt fun any longer,, your videos and others like them are now my class room,, thank you for trying to teach me now ! so a giant thank you along with giant huggs!!
Wow, I see you learned more thru the years as you are so teachable and to think you ran from school. You are one of my best students so there. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Hi Gerald, what a wonderful time as a family to watch Navajo Grandma. It is fun to say our fruits and veggies in Dine' Bizaad. I hope you all had fun pronouncing each word. Happy you spend constructive time together as it should be. God be with you and your family. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Well uniqueLeo08, welcome and welcome again. Thank you for watching and learning. Keep it simple and remember grandma says, "practice does make perfect." Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Excellent idea LT. What a wonderful father you are!! Enjoy allowing them to sound out the words, compliment them even though they may say something totally different. Hug them and praise them for trying. Teach them practice makes perfect. Hugs to you. Navajo Grandma
Wow. That quite a life time story you got. Like I said lived in Minnesota most my life. I have relatives in Arizona and Minnesota. I do enjoy visiting my relatives in Arizona. I did try to live on the Reservation I didn’t make it I got so home sick I was physically sick. That when I moved to Phoenix I lived there for 10 years. But I missed Minnesota so I came back here last March. Let’s see how I do with the cold weather. I’ve been a Desert Rat for a long time. Lol.
Amy you made me laugh saying your are a desert rat. Long before you were born, the slang on the reservation that we called each other and everyone said this, "hey are you are lizard?" It was weird I know but everyone use to say, "hey there's a lizard." LOL! So some of the old folks still say, "hey lizard do you remember me.LOL! again. Yes, life is crazy, I have been everywhere but my heart and spirit drags me back to the rez. I said this and my Nali said to me, "there is a true reason for what you are describing. The four sacred mountains will call you back no matter where you go on this earth. These are sacred mountains and this is where your umbilical cord is buried, or your ancestral umbilical cords are buried here. It is sacred and you will never stray far enough, long enough, but you will return and return time and time again." Wow, that just touched my heart. So I let it go and said, well the sacred mountains know and love me and keep me coming home. I always do. I can't seem to stay away. I can't live there, I am so city oriented but its okay, I now love the rural areas. When I go home, I sit on a hill and look over the places the hogans use to be, where I ran and played, where my Nali prayed, every morning with his tadidiin, and so many memories that give me such a strong foundation. I shall always be a rez lizard girl too. Yeah!!! Hugs from ni masani.
Lol. I’m 60 plus years old. You when I go to visit with my relatives and speak Navajo for awhile my jaw gets sore. Probably because I use different muscles when speaking Navajo
Very proud of you for trying and reading grandma's cards. It does take some time to write but worth it to me. If I was more technology sound I would put it on screen but not there yet. Remember grandma is doing these videos by herself and self taught using the video editors, etc. So I am happy you appreciate grandma's work. Love you so. Navajo Grandma
Dear Grandma i loved you so much... You remembered me my Grandma... She was as you everytime smiling so much.... Your teaching is wonderfull... Thanks a lot... İ am interest in navajo language... And your lesdon wonderfull... İ hope you will continiue this language lessons... İ love you...😉...
I don't want to deter folks from learning so I keep the lessons apart. Just practice till we do another one.. Being teachable is a virtue you know. Proud of you. Navajo Grandma
The Navajo language is not easy and might not be easy to pronounce but thank you for trying and being teachable. You a great soul for trying. Love you. Navajo Grandma
@@NavajoGrandma yes! It’s awesome. You’re so kind to take the time to teach everyone. I keep trying but the l with the line through it sound will not come out right. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but it doesn’t sound like yours. I’m still trying! Thanks again. ❤️❤️❤️
It really does have some fun sounds and when you practice it becomes perfect. A lot of enunciation to practice but in the end this won a war and blessed many. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
You are so welcome Ms. D. you are more awesome than Grandma with such a giving and loving heart. So many of the women you are helping is the greatest of example to me. You are a true angel. Blessings to you always. You and your husband who is wonderful because of you. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
@@abuelitap65 I am so proud of you. Keep practicing and sound the words out and just blare it out. Don't be shy. I want to hear you all the way over here. Smile. Navajo Grandma
Arent' they amazing? I love the comments and yours as well as you always awaken pointed wise aspects of Navajo Grandma's channel. I have noticed that. Thank you, Ahehee. Navajo Grandma
Thank you so much for making this video! I've been using Duolingo to try and learn some Diné and none of the food words are pronounced. Do you have any more videos like this? I'm not sure how to pronounce the names of the meats or the verbs (yiyá, yishá, doasa, etc)
Yaateeh shi yazhi. I hope you enjoyed stretching your enunciations to try and say these words. Its fun. Practice becomes perfect right. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Hello grandma, thank you for the stories you share with us. I wanted to ask you how often you comb your hair, with what moisturize your hair and my last question I would like to help me if you know a natural ingredient to reduce red acne scars. Love, Penny from Greece.
Hi there, I don’t use moisturizers. I simply was my hair with yucca. Watch my video on part 2 of the yucca shampoo video. I have heard of Salicylic acid a compound in acne skin care. Some retinoids get rid of acne scars too. Alpha hydroxy acids, usually from a prescription. Some natural remedies include but at times may cause skin irritation so these are only suggestions. Coconut oil, Shea butter, aloe Vera gel, raw honey, baking soda, lemon juice. There are also chemical peels from a dermatologist as well as laser treatment. Sorry but these are only suggestions sweetheart. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
You are so funny, how could this word: taʼneeskʼání áłtsʼóózígíí scare you?? Its like saying a long skinny melon but instead of a d you pronounce it with a t. Easy. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
@@thescience786 If you do not speak Navajo, why yes it is quite a long word to try to enunciate. That is why grandma always says, practice makes perfect. If we said this phonetically here it is: takh-neskani-allth-tsozigi. Easy. Bawhaha. Still scary. Love you. Navajo Grandma
Yes, my daughter in law has learned Navajo from that Rosetta Stone. She sounds pretty good. Teaches her children. Keep it simple and yes, if you can hire a tutor do it. You must have lots of money. haha. I wanted to speak Spanish and then these Spanish women said, "get a Spanish boyfriend and you will learn pretty fast." Well, there was a problem, I told them, I am married. One girl said, "so what?" Get a Spanish boyfriend, he will teach you well and you won't forget it. Ok, so that didn't work out. Thus I just use the Spanish to English translator on google. Done. Navajo Grandma
You have a great ear, yes it is very similar. Apaches speak faster, I can understand Apaches talking as it is fast Dine’ language. You are so right. Smartie. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
@@NavajoGrandma I don't mean to offend the Dine but are the Dine closely related to the Dine Apache ? I don't like to use the name Apache because they call themselves the People as well.
@@mustafanunn8435 No offense, here. They are basically a break off. Its okay let them call themselves Dine' too. We are all one family and if they feel this, allow it. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Now let’s try here, quite a whitemans nam but here goes. Yaateeh Todd Nahalthtini yinishye” Hello my name is Todd Rainey. Or just say Todd Nahalthtini yinishye’. Ok. Navajo Grandma
Do you know how I learned how to speak Japanese?? I put rocks in my mouth and learned to enunciate it. I figured if I can't do it with rocks in my mouth, I won't be able to. Well guess what, I learned. Sukoshi, Nihongo hanashimasu. I can speak Japanese but not joozu (skilled) but can. I am thanking you for trying sweetheart. You are so cute. Love you for trying. Navajo Grandma
Oh no your -cards are very faint for somebody with vision impairment. It's hard to read it. Please pick a different color or Or make your writing more bold to help u'/s out. I love your videos, so please help.
@@kameronmestes4177 Chʼil naʼatłʼoʼii good luck trying to say this. Here is how you can say it phonetically. "CHIL NAH AT TKLO EE" This is the best grandma can do for you unless you can hear someone say this. I wish there was voice recordings on this. Navajo Grandma
@@kameronmestes4177 What a wonderful soul you are Kameroon Mestes!! Glad you are teaching little one goodness. Grandma sends her huge hugs to wonderful parents like you. Teaching is a virtuous gift. Navajo Grandma
