Learn Greenlandic Online – Level 1

Description

Greenlandic belongs to the Eskimo family of languages, and therefore it is a “polysynthetic” language. Long word, which is very appropriate as one word in Greenlandic can mean a whole sentence in other languages. (“Polysynthetic” means words are made with a root, one or more affixes and a suffix.). So you can say a lot in one word in this beautiful language of the land of the ice caps.

The culture of Greenland is tied to Greenlandic Inuit tradition (the population is mostly Inuit) and the extreme living conditions. Life as sealers and hunters in small isolated communities is reflected in the language, music, myths, clothing, food and homes.

Course Content

• Introduction
• Greetings of the Day
• How are you?
• More Greetings
• My name is…
• Please and thank you
• I don’t understand
• Yes/No
• Countries
• Countries Part 2
• Countries Part 3
• Numbers 0 – 10
• Numbers 11 – 20
• Where are you from?
• What is the telephone number?
• Give your contact details
• Where do you live?
• What do you do?
• Colors
• What’s this called?
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Drinks
• What would you like to drink?
• General food
• In the kitchen
• The verb to be
• The verb to be – questions
• The verb to be – more questions