User:SinaSabet28
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Greetings!
[edit]Hello!! I'm SinaSabet28 (they/she/he), a native Northern Californian English speaker raised by Iranian-born, Farsi-speaking immigrants. Because I often edit entries for religious terms in Farsi and Arabic, I believe it is also important to note that I was raised Baháʼí.
I'm a pre-med undergraduate at the University of California - San Diego, majoring in Linguistics with a Specialization in Cognition and Language. I consider phonetics and morphology my strongest suits linguistically. For research projects at UCSD, I completed a report on Cantonese phonology, have studied reduplication in Asante Twi (a variety of Akan) and Papiamentu, assisted in developing a Kalmyk dictionary, and currently analyze/segment acoustic spectrograms of Modern Standard Arabic.
I am a conlanger. I have been working on a conlang I call "Ravya" since 2015. Here is a sample entry from one of my favorite words in Ravya.
Ravya
[edit]Etymology
[edit]qokaon (“heat”) + otxain (“purgatory”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]qokaonotxain
- heat limbo, the state of feeling uncomfortable since a given environment's temperature feels simultaneously too hot and too cold
My language comprehension
[edit]Spanish: I received a 5 on my AP Exams for Spanish Language and Spanish Literature. I tutor the Spanish language and have taught English to a class of Costa Rican students. If I could make this 3.5, I would.
Por haber vivido en California mi vida entera, aprender español me ha dado la oportunidad para disfrutar de mi estado más profundamente. Por la historia de nuestro estado como parte de México, hay tanta gente hispanohablante en California. Casi cotidianamente conozco a alguien que habla español mejor que inglés o que no habla inglés. California tiene una mitad que habla inglés y otra que habla español, poder hablar español es una llave que te abre la otra mitad.
Portuguese: I have been learning Portuguese since the beginning of 2022 and have made many close friends from Brazil by primarily speaking Portuguese. I am a Portuguese translator at a school I volunteer at.
Sem hipérbole, aprender português foi a melhor escolha da minha vida, sério mesmo. Aprender português completamente mudou meu jeito de aprender qualquer idioma. Quando comecei aprender, tentei mergulhar no idioma e na cultura brasileira. Agora tenho muitos amigos brasileiros e espero poder visitar eles no Brasil no futuro.
Farsi/Persian: I took Heritage Persian (LIHL 117) at UCSD, a class taught nearly entirely in Farsi. I have translated for my grandmother when traveling with her. For 18 years of my life, I was raised in a bilingual English and Farsi household. I happen to run into Afghans in public surprisingly frequently, and therefore have limited exposure to Dari. I can read Cyrillic, so understanding Tajik is not super difficult for me.
هنوز برای من نوشتن به فارسی خیلی سخت است، ولی سطح دانش نوشتن فارسی من بعد از این که کلاس در دانشگاه گرفتم بسیار بهتر شد. کمکم دارم با فامیلم تمرین میکنم. هی گیج میشوم وقتی باید به فارسی یک چیزی بنویسم. بعضیوقتها به خودم فکر میکنم، کاش مثل ترکیه ما هم الفبای لاتین را شروع کرده بودیم استفاده کنیم
Classical Latin: I received a 4 on my AP Latin exam (self-study). I have tutored Latin before and still practice on my own.
Because of my proficiency in Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin, I feel comfortable with contributing to several Romance languages and creoles based on various Romance languages such as Papiamento. In researching Papiamento for a university research project, I learned a fair bit about the language's morphology and phonology. I read an entire research paper in the language and understood it with little difficulty.
German: I had a tutor for over a year and practice weekly with German speakers online. At UCSD, I tested into the level of the courses "Ling 1D or Lit 2A."
Indonesian: I regularly practice Indonesian with native speakers.
Polish and Turkish: I was very dedicated to learning Polish and Turkish when I was 13, but gave up after a while. I still remember basic declension and conjugation patterns in both languages, as well as basic vocabulary. I've gotten somewhat back on the Turkish grind, mostly through listening to a lot of Turkish music.
Toki Pona: I own pu and ku and studied the language since I was 12.
Music I recommend in languages besides English (WIP!!!)
[edit]I also use these a lot for quotations.
Dutch
[edit]Ewe
[edit]German
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Italian
[edit]- Måneskin
- Misantrophia
Japanese
[edit]- kamomekamome
- Ningen Isu
Maori
[edit]Mongolian
[edit]Persian
[edit]Polish
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]- Baco Exu do Blues
- BK
- Black Pantera
- Moonspell
- Djonga
- Sepultura
- Sérgio Reis
- Soulfly
- Supercombo
Russian
[edit]Spanish
[edit]- Brujeria
- Cemican
- Enanitos Verdes
- Luis Miguel
Turkish
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