Kurmanji Puns

Hi friends

I am going to Lebanon around February with the goal of doing language immersion in Arabic and Kurmanji.
I know, I know, Lebanon speaks Arabic, not Kurmanji, but Kurds are a sizable minority in the country as everybody knows, with thousands coming from neighboring countries in recent years, so if I can take the opportunity and combine the possibilities to develop both language skills that would be really ideal to me.

So if you know bilingual people, fluent speakers of Arabic and Kurmanji, who would be interested in either sharing an apartment/house or giving language lessons please message me. I would be glad to pay the person for the lessons or to help out renting a room from them, if there is interest for that. I plan on staying in Lebanon for a few months (not yet decided how many, but I am open to negotiate terms with anyone who shows interest in this proposal).

Thanks for reading and if you can assist me in any way I'll be very, very grateful.

Cheers

Kurmanji is probably my favorite language, but there are depressingly few resources. Glossika has an excellent bank of conversational sentences, but only in Sorani. I can extract ~5000 English sentences, but am unable to translate them reliably (google translate is surprisingly good though). So the question is - would forum users be interested in translating them? Doing several thousands would be a daunting task for one person, but we have 10 people for example, that's 500 per person, already more doable. What do you guys think?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Dem baş! Hi!

I am a professional tutor, fluent Kurmanji Kurdish speaker and Oxford University graduate available to help you learn the beautiful and little-studied Kurdish language, either in-person in London or online via Zoom.

With years of experience living, working and translating in Kurdistan, I am fluent in the Kurmanji Kurdish language spoken across Syrian and Turkish Kurdistan. I tutored multiple expats to a working proficiency in Kurmanji, and now I'm living back in London I am also working with local students to help them learn the language - PhD students, NGO staff, and others with an interest in the region.

My years of experience teaching, translating and working in Kurdistan mean I am uniquely placed to help academics, NGO staff, journalists and others learn Kurmanji. I also have an extensive tutoring record, with professional experience teaching English as a foreign language to pupils aged from 5 to 25, as well as providing academic mentoring and exam tuition during my time at Oxford University and at school. I can provide professional references from current pupils working with me to study the Kurdish language.

There are very few language resources, textbooks or qualified teachers for Kurmanji, due to the language's long repression in both Turkey and Syria. But with tens of millions of speakers, it's a major Middle Eastern language, and deserved to be far more widely spoken and studied. I'm passionate about sharing this language and my experiences in Kurdistan with my students, and helping them to learn the realities of the vernacular Kurdish they'll encounter on the street alongside a strong grounding in the language's grammar.

I qualified from Oxford University with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature, and from the world-leading City University London with an MA (distinction) in Newspaper Journalism. Alongside my tutoring I work as a freelance journalist and writer (VICE, Independent, New Statesman).

If you'd be interested in discussing tuition, just drop me a message and I can share references and more information, and we can discuss pricing. Hope to hear from you soon!

In this post Anki decks based on US Department of Defense resources have been presented here. The links to the decks are dead now. Does anyone still have decks?

I have a video where two Kurdish/ Kurmanji speaking people are talking and I need to add English subtitles to it. Unfortunately I do not speak Kurdish, so I'm looking for a software or service that could transcribe the conversation for me, within like 18 hours, and then I could translate the trascription via google and some Kurdish speakers I know.

TLDR: Does any know of a transcription software that works with Kurdish/ Kurmanji?

I'm learning Kurmanji to talk to a friend at work in their native language, and for the most part it's been fine. I recently found out that they don't read and write in the Hawar alphabet, but the Sorani one, and because it's much easier to read and write than speak and understand, I want to continue learning Kurmanji in the Sorani alphabet, or at least have additional learning in that script while learning the latinized Kurmanji. Is there any resource or direction to be pointed in for this? Not learning Sorani, but learning their alphabet while continuing Kurmanji.

I am compiling a medical phrasebook and would appreciate some help. DLI Kurmanji has some other dialect (https://fieldsupport.dliflc.edu/products/kurmanji/xk_md_LSK/module18.html).

How do I say:

Are you having nausea? I am nauseous. Are you dizzy? I am dizzy. Are you seeing double? Does it feel normal? It feels numb. I feel tingling. I am weak. Open your eyes. Close your eyes. Touch this. Do this. Move like this. Push. Pull. Squeeze my finger. Relax. Show me. Look at my finger. Walk straight. Sit down. Lie down.

Thanks!

Hey there! I'm a student from Bulgaria trying to qualify for the International Linguists Olympiad. In order to accomplish that, I need to do a dissertation on a linguistic phenomenon and, die to my interest in the Kurdish language and culture, I've chosen ergativity in Kurmanji.

I need some specific examples in order to illustrate the phenomenon better, so it would be really nice if someone could translate the following sentences:

The man sleeps.

The man sees the boy.

The man saw the boy.

The girl waters the tree

The girl watered the tree

He sees her.

He saw her.

Thank you very much in advance!

Hey, im a kurd from iraq so i speak Sorani but in Europe i have Kurmanji friends, and even at work all of them speak Kurmanji

is there any way to learn? and how hard is it? or how long would it take

is Duolingo planning to add Kurdish?

thanks in advance :)

I want to learn all kurdish dialects i know sorani as a mother tongue and i know some pehlewani because my grandpa is one but I don’t know anyone who knows kurmanji and zazaki... does anyone know how i can learn it from online or any classes in slemani ???

I’m starting Kurmanji Kurdish at the start of next year and I’m trying to collect book resources. Which type of text is most commonly used?

(I have no experience with the Arabic alphabet so I’m not sure how difficult it is to switch between the two. Any advice or resources are very welcome!)

A few weeks ago, I posted about the newly available Sorani textbook published by Indiana University's Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR). It seems that they've now made available a Kurmanji textbook as well:

https://celcar.indiana.edu/news-events/_news/news9-new-textbooks.html

(I have no connection with the university, but only wanted to point this out to those who might be interested.)

I believe that the preliminary version they've now made available is spiral-bound, with separate audio-visual CD(s), and that the course will at some point in the future be formally published by Georgetown University, but that it will likely be quite some time before the final version is published.

I will be working with Kurds from Syria and would love to develop a good knowledge of the native language.

I can teach English, Portuguese and French in exchange if you wish, or just being friends and learning your language, otherwise :)

Hello guys,

I posted earlier asking about tattoo ideas. Now I’ve figured out what I want. My mother’s nickname is bear or little bear. Now my mum says it’s spelled like this: Hortçe, but someone else told me it’s written as Hirtçe.

My question would be, what is the correct way to write bear in Kurdish?

Sorry if I made any mistakes, English is not my first language.

Zor supas

Hi, does anyone knows where to buy Selahattin demirtas books translated to kurmanji? I only find ones in Turkish?

Hey im a Kurd speaking sorani i really want to learn kurmanji drop some good yt channels or apps to learn Kurmanji

i speak sorani but i have a kurmanji friend in the other class, i havent talked to that friend much..

im wondering if its possible to hold a conversation? it shouldn’t be too hard, right?

i think the 2 dialects are pretty similar... with some differences

I'm fine with anything in English, although I'd be more comfortable with Turkish since it's my native language. Thanks in advance!

Im a kurmanji/badini kurd in erbil,i only know sorani but can understand kurmanji easily and i always thought that its easy to learn both of them or at least to understand them but many kurds say its hard to understand so i wanted to see what u guys think about that,can these kurds hold a conversation with each other or most cant even speak without a translator?

Hi. I will be working with Syrian citizens of Arab and Kurdish background and would like to learn and practice both dialects/languages. Hit me up if you are interested in helping me navigate this challenge : )

i speak sorani but i have a kurmanji friend in the other class, i havent talked to that friend much..

im wondering if its possible to hold a conversation? it shouldn’t be too hard, right?

i think the 2 dialects are pretty similar... with some differences