Since its release a year ago, Sermersooq.dk has received over 10,000 visitors. The website provides Danish – Greenlandic, Greenlandic – Danish language courses for beginners. Now it will be available for free to everyone.
According to Ebbe Kristensen from the Danish Greenlandic language group, to celebrate the site’s first anniversary the Danish Greenlandic language group has decided to release the whole language course to anyone who might be interested in learning to speak Greenlandic or to improve their Danish pronunciation.
The course can be downloaded for personal computers and passed to friends and family on either: Sermersooq.dk or here.
Unfortunately the course is only suitable for people who understand Danish or Greenlandic to start with — however a good quality online Danish translator may be helpful enough to help non-Danish speakers start learning Greenlandic. This website run by the University of Iceland may also be helpful, as it lists words in all the Scandinavian languages, as well as Greenlandic and English.
The course has also been released to private companies and public institutions if they want to offer it to their employees. The course is free, Ebbe Kristensen reiterated to Semitsiaq.ag.
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Reply to Jim (USA).
Greenlandic is a wonderful language. Tricky to learn. But at least its not influenced by US…..yet…..
The Greenlandic people are very proud of their language, and in my opinion it should remain just the way it is.
Just because it does not suit you, it should be changed, restructured.
Can’t you just let these wonderful people have their language intact, as they are very proud of their heritage.
I suspect that USA ( World police) will one way or the other try to muscle in on this beautiful nation as well, leaving deep scars, like everywhere else
Maths
Greenlandic is such a messy and cluttered language! Greenlandic ought to go through the same linguistic re-engineering that so many languages went through in order to improve their utility and ability to carry weightier ideas.
So what if Greenlandic is “ancient.” Ancient Latin had logical structure, even when early writings or engravings ran together. Once spacing and punctuation entered, then classical Latin could be translated easier. There is a reason why classical Latin was the Mother Tongue and language of academia because it had logical structure and rules.
Greenlandic language and writing will never amount to anything or be used outside of Inuit affairs until it gets overhauled and cleaned up.