Ian Hefele Intro

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#1

Hello,

It’s me, IanHefele from Brattleboro USA! About me: Multilingual, international educator based in Vermont. My area of speciality at work is Southern Africa and the Middle East.

I have attended one conference before. How many have you and which ones?

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#2

Hello Ian,

This is my first time attending a Polyglot Conference.

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#3

Hi Selmina! Willkommen! Where are you from?

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#4

Many thanks for the welcome greeting in Deutsch, Ian.

I am from Papua, Indonesia, but I was born and raised in Papua New Guinea.

I have always wanted to learn Deutsch since some of the words in Tok Pisin are derived from it.

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#5

I’ve always been interested in Tok Pisin and Unserdeutsch! PNG is such a linguistic delight.

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#6

It is fascinating that you mentioned “Unserdeutsch”, thank you. I can only speak Tok Pisin and I have researched it.

But I know Prof. Craig Allan Volker who wrote his master’s thesis on “An introduction to Rabaul Creole German (Unserdeutsch)”. He is a linguist and resides in New Ireland, PNG.

Yes, PNG is the land of many languages.

#7

Ooo I would love to read that. I’m interested in creole languages and would love to get to PNG some day. Is Tok Pisin HARD to learn?

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#8

Here is what I’ve just found on google https://www.germanistik.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_historisch/dsl/germanistik/content/e40649/e40653/e714347/e714508/Unserdeutsch-OUP_ger.pdf I hope you will find it useful.

I am interested in creole languages, too. Bislama and the Solomon Islands Pijin are the sister dialects of Tok Pisin.

Tok Pisin is a very easy language to learn.

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#9

Where would you be able to find resources to learn?

I’m in Vermont USA so not many resources here

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#10

Here are some links to online resources to learn Tok Pisin that you might find helpful.

https://unilang.org/course.php?res=80

https://utalk.com/en/store/tok-pisin

https://www.jcu.edu.au/language-and-culture-research-centre/resources/language-archives
Some learning materials Tok Pisin
A new course in Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin) documents and tracks 1-11 (ZIP, 43543 KB)

And I recommend you get an "Oxford Papua New Guinea TOK PISIN ENGLISH Dictionary, it’s on Amazon.

There’s an online Tok Pisin dictionary that I’m still looking for the link. I’ll send the link when I’ve found it.

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#11

It’s time to sleep over here, but DANKESCHÖN and we will talk soon

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#12

Tenkyu tu na gutnait (Thank you, too, and good night in Tok Pisin).

It’s my preparation day for Sabbath here.

Lukim yu bihain!

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