af somali ban ko hathlay

[Star4tgw]

af somali sid lo qoro baan barana sifican baan ko halay karay lakiin qornakay ma fiino.
tips ee seee

 

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

af somali sid lo qoro baan barana sifican baan ko halay karay lakiin qornakay ma fiino.
tips ee seee

How is your reading, and understanding of Somali on a scale of 1 - 10?

 

[Star4tgw]

How is your reading, and understanding of Somali on a scale of 1 - 10?

7

 

[backgroundISneeded]

Judging from the short writing you provided, it seems that you are already familiar with the Somali alphabet. Therefore, you just need to memorize the letters presented in these three videos.

Long Vowels = shaqal dheer

Shiibane

Short vowels = shaqal gaaban

 

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

7

Then you are in good standing, and may stay close to @backgroundISneeded

In the interim, reading short stories, citing poetry, taking notes in Somali, and listening to songs of old etc are great tools, of course there is no match for visiting the old country for practice. How fluent are your parents?

 

[Abdalla]

You have a good base and I can tell by your writing that you speak well. Your spelling is off a bit but you’ll improve. In order to write well, you need to read Somali articles more often. Don’t implement English vowels when you’re writing in Somali

tips ee see. ee is pronounced as eh in Somali. You meant tips ii sii. See (pronounced as seh) is like what/huh (see camal)

Reading Somali articles is a fun albeit frustrating process.

 

[Som]

af somali sid lo qoro baan barana sifican baan ko halay karay lakiin qornakay ma fiino.
tips ee seee

Small corrections.
Af Soomaali sida loo qoro baan barana si fiican. Waan ku hadlikara laakin qoraalkayga ma fiicna
Remember somali is written as it sounds. In the title you said ko hatlay but if you listen to yourself speaking you'll say "ku hadlay".
Tips i sii (this is "give me tips" if you are asking one person. If you are asking many you'd say Tips i siiya. ) In Somali there's a difference with You singular and You plural and you have to conjugate accordingly
Remember if you are an English speaker the sounds like the double OO in the world Book are written with a U and not with an o or double oo like you would in English. So it's KU and not Ko or Koo.
Same with the letter I. In English you write it EE like in the word Bee but in Somali it's just an I. So it's i sii and not ee see.
The double EE sounds exists in Somali but it's pronounced like in the E in the word Empty but more stretched because it's a long vowel.

Overall you are doing good, keep up with the good work