Guests

I now have two Azerbaijanis helping me with the blog. I'm really grateful to them. I'll post photos soon with their permission. I would love to have other guests on the blog. Write to me if you are interested.

Aynur works at my local hair salon. She is working very hard to improve her English and help me improve my Azerbaijani. We are taking this approach: she writes up a typical conversation that she might have with a friend (in Azerbaijani). Then I translate it into English. She practices the English version and I practice the Azerbaijani. This is much more fun than reading the news or serious literary works! Aynur comes from Göy Göl.

Nigar is a dear friend and also my teacher of voice and piano. She is a brilliant music teacher and a talented musician and singer herself. Nigar is a native Bakuvian. She already speaks excellent English but of course I will correct her when she makes a mistake. This is very important for language learners - tell us about our mistakes! Nigar says I need to improve my inflection in Azerbaijani. This is a very difficult thing for me. I also need to be careful about my pronunciation of course since so many Azerbaijani sounds are not present in English. My husband (who has never studied Azerbaijani) has a beautiful accent because he speaks Irish Gaelic and that language has all those difficult Azerbaijani sounds.




5 comments:

Hoji said...

Hello, my name is Hoji. I live in the U.S.
I would love to learn Azarbayejani language. My mom is from Tabriz and I would love to re-learn this.

Anonymous said...

i guess it will be helpful http://hedef.edu.az/lets-speak-azerbaijani-with-us

Anonymous said...

Hello I am from Azerbaijan and I live in Baku.. I would like to join your blog and to help you to learn Azeri with great pleasure,, I am really happy to see that you want to learn Azeri and I took you email address and would like to contact with you. By the way I am a student and major is teaching language ( foreign language)

ibrahim khavari said...

Hello!
i am from Afghanistan and now i live in Baku, I want to learn Azeri language but i don't have any resources.
can any one help me!
thanks a lot

Gunel said...

Nice to see that foreigner tells about Azerbaijan language with so big enthusiasm. I also can help you in learning Azerbaijan language with great pleasure.