Thank you for your sublime work! I love your videos and they help me a lot! Go on like this, you definitely deserve more recognition! Hannon le, mellon! :)
In _mas i ovaded,_ the spelling _ovaded_ is almost correct. A 100% correct spelling is _'ovaded_ (with an apostrophe in the beginning of the word). The actual word is _govaded_ "meeting" (the gerund of the verb "to meet"). The definite article _i_ "the" (a singular "the") causes words beginning in _g-_ to loose this sound, and this loss is marked with an apostrophe, which is probably pronounced as a glotal stop (but is also possible that it is not pronounced at all) - thus, _govaded_ "meeting" → _i 'ovaded_ "the meeting". In _mas athradannech?_ "where did you travel" (literally "where did you traverse/cross?"), the word _athradannech_ has a double/long _nn,_ which is pronounced with more or less two times the length of a simple/short _n._ And the stressed syllable in that word falls on the second-to-last syllable - "a-thra-DANN-ech (and not "a-THRA-dann-ech"). In words with three or more syllables, the stress falls, by default, on the third-to-last syllable; but it falls on the second-to-last syllable if this syllable is long; that is, if it contains a long vowel ( _á, é, í, ó, ú, ý_ ), a diphthong ( _ai, ei, ui, oe_ or _au_ - the latter is written _aw_ in the end of a word) or if the vowel in this syllable is short (a, e, i, o, u, y) but is followed by a long/double consonant ( _nn_ , _mm_ , _ll_ , _rr,_ also _ph_ when it comes in the middle of a word, beteween vowels, representing a long "ff" sound) or by a consonant cluster. Keeping in mind that the dygraphs _ch, dh, th, lh, rh_ and _hw_ represent one single consonant (not clusters), same for _ph,_ which is used for the sound of "f" in the beginning or in the end of a word or in middle position (except, in this case, when it appears between two vowels), and for _ng_ when it appears in the beginning or in the end of a word, being pronounced as in the English word "sing" (in middle position, it represents a consonant cluster, as in "singer" - that is, _n+g_ ). Plus, there is actually no attested Sindarin word for "where". _Mas_ is a neologism, adapted from Quenya _massë_ "where". Perhaps a safer way to say "where" in Sindarin would be _man sad_ "which place" ( _man_ "what", "who", _sad_ "place", "spot"). Personaly, I would say _man sad i 'ovaded?_ "where is the meeting?" and _man sad athradannech?_ "where did you travel?". But I think using _mas_ is just ok.
You trip me out! Ok, your are brilliant with languages so I challenge you to something different. Please consider something that will inspire a child or very young person to get on the path . we can see what you have accomplished but we want to know HOW you accomplished all this. Education, courses, study time outside of school. Just the very simplest things a young person needs to do to learn languages, I know these videos will be a tremendous help. I'm sure that my grandson who is almost 8 years old would rather learn Dwarvish than Elvish so, I think you have something for him in your videos. But, you understand...just enjoy encouraging video where they can see you, like a friend. Please and thank you..
Ok, I get you - well, I actually have a video on a topic similar to that (memorization techniques) planned for this month, so look out for that. I'll definitely do similar stuff this year, I'm very excited about that... And thanks! ;)
@Artreii Wow, you addressed my inquiry 2 years ago, and JUST NOW, I see it. Thank you! And I apologize for not being more observant. I will see if I have missed and M.E..language videos!
I'm not really great at the 'th' sound. I've heard that it should be like 'th' in 'the', maybe a bit harder, but yeah, in some of Tolkien's languages, like Valarin, the 'h' adds a breathy accent to the previous letter, sooo... it's a lot, I'm still not 100% sure unfortunately
Girithron.. girithron.. I swear I've heard it before- Erm......... it has "thron" in it just like pethron.. UUmm. Nah, I can't remember xD 5 seconds later: months? It sounds kinda similar to the old slovenian name for December 🤔 (in Slovene, it was called "gruden", though, now it is december xD) AA I was right again! (pure luck right now)
Great videos, but now i have to ask. Wouldn't it be easier to memorize "this" means "that" instead of "this is this particular instance means that, because og that... Blablabla blabla bla bla" you know what I mean? Greetings from Denmark.
Thanks, what I'm trying to do is say "this" means "that" and here's how you can remember it... But sometimes it gets out of control, that's the mnemonic life ;)
