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David Chiboteam

 
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1. You can do a lot....

Nov-07-2000 at 08:55 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

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Akhoonie Edvin,

You are starting to awaken to your heritage and culture. I, like you, am a Western born Assyrian who has awakened to his true language and culture.
I now not only speak, read and write the Assyrian language, but I also teach it at an Assyrian language school.
It's very easy. It all starts with your choice to change your habits.
A few habits that helped make it very easy for me.
1. Instead of listening to English music on the way to work, change the music to Assyrian.
2. Make an active effort to talk to Assyrian friends and even family members in Assyrian. This is hard at first but becomes second nature once you begin the transition.
3. Take an Assyrian language course. There are many around and if you are really interested you will find one.
4. Purchase an Assyrian dictionary, and have it in a handy place. Many times after hearing a new word whether it be from an Assyrian song or reading it in an Assyrian book or magazine, I have looked it up and discovered what it means. I have done this afew times a week. This doesn't take much but after a while your vocabulary increases dramatically thanks to the new words you have discovered. e.g. Yesterday I heard the word Nasikha in a Germaine song. I looked it up as soon as I got home and discovered it meaning. It means Noble or excellent.
5. Make an effort to read at least a little Assyrian each week, even if its a page. This will ensure that your knowledge will note erode.

These are all little habits that I have gotten into. Like I said it doesn't take much effort. The hardest part is to mentally want to change your old habits and to appreciate the value of the 2700 year old language that was spoken by Jesus.

Akhoonukh,
David Chibo
Melbourne, Australia

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 What can we do [View All], Edvin, 05:50 AM, Oct-12-2000, (0)
  • You can do a lot...., David Chiboteam, Nov-07-2000 at 08:55 PM, (1)
    •  Thanks, edvin, Nov-28-2000 at 05:03 AM, (2)
  •  RE: What can we do, JelouAltonangel777, Nov-30-2001 at 02:01 PM, (3)
 

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Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

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Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

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