Basic(Pirate) Ehenív: Catalog of Pirate Dialect Lessons
I am putting together a sort of collection so that you needn’t hunt and peck through my Archives for the whole set of Lesson blogs to find the one you want to read most (or all of them if you want to learn the whole language! I don’t mind having someone to practice with!)
Lesson 1 (Greetings and Leave-takings or Yi aks Da kíz!)
Lesson 2 (Conversation Openers or Gazhsu Aztu’e)
Lesson 3 (The Weather or Va Tamild)
Lesson 4 (Places or Yérba’e)
Lesson 5 (Shopping, Colours, and Clothing or Kíngsu, Indodane, fiaks Hidasu)
Lesson 6 (Grammar or Tayzi)
Lesson 7 (Prepositions and Articles)
Lesson 8 (Numbers or Kayliméra’e)
Lesson 9 (Times, Days or the Week and Months of the Year or Ti’e, Yanā’e , fiaks Modo zhu va Rélze)
Lesson 11 (Royal titles and Honourifics and Family Members)
Lesson 12 (Verbs or Sa’aso’e)
Lesson 13 (Classroom terms or Prino Chambi Vírdase)
Lesson 14 (LOZ and other Fairy-Story Words)
Lesson 15 (Anatomy and Health or Va Do aks Dimay)
Lesson 16 (Around the Home or Hawal va Inha)
Lesson 17 (The Alphabet or Va Shíshkra)
Lesson 19 (Adjectives and Adverbs or Atsrayke aks Atsayre)
Lesson 20 (Food and Drink or Magst aks Soda’e)
Lesson 21 (Slang or Kuta Nélivi)
Related Media and information(fun stuff!!!):
(For Maximum fluency…these are great resources! Also, great resources for fan-fiction authors!)
Topic: Pet names (What to call your Sweetheart)
Topic: How Gerudo Pirates Gossip
Topic: Comparison between Desert and Pirate Dialect (More in depth look at both dialects)
Video Link: Conversation about The Man on the Beach (Pirate Dialect-only!)
Video Link: A Rite of Passage (Pirate Dialect Only!)
Video Link: Carnival of Time Conversation (Pirate Dialect Only!)
Audio Link: A Conversation in both Desert and Pirate Dialect! (Synopsis: Princess Zelda is being held for ransom by Gerudo Pirates...but they are each speaking a different dialect of Ehenív!) Transcript included!