jueves, 4 de abril de 2019

Getting started in..

Getting started in … Galician



Spanish is the main language spoken in Spain and it is official in all its territory. But, as you may know, three other languages are spoken in our country, too. They are Galician, Catalan and Basque. The former two derive from Latin; the latter doesn’t. That is why you won’t have many problems in understanding lots of words in Galician and Catalan if you can speak Spanish.

Galician is spoken in Galicia, the northwestern part of Spain, and it is co-official there.  If you want to find more information about it, please click on this link.

Today we would like to let you have a taste of it. Some of the art students of IES O Ribeiro worked on a project for which they tried to express abstract concepts in works combining images and words. Do they match each other well? What do you think?



































 Please, look at the chart below and compare the words in the four languages.




Galician
Spanish
English
Irish
CARIÑO
CARIÑO
AFFECTION
GEAN
COIDADO
CUIDADO
CARE
AIRE
EMPATÍA
EMPATÍA
EMPATHY
DÁIMH
ENTREGA
ENTREGA
DEDICATION
DÍOGRAIS
ESPERANZA
ESPERANZA
HOPE
DÓCHAS
IGUALDADE
IGUALDAD
EQUALITY
COMHIONANNAS
LIBERDADE
LIBERTAD
FREEDOM
SAOIRSE
PAZ
PAZ
PEACE
SÍOCHÁIN
SERENIDADE
SERENIDADE
CALMNESS, PEACE OF MIND
SOCRACHT, SÁIMHE
XENEROSIDADE
GENEROSIDAD
GENEROSITY
GNAÍÚLACHT


But sometimes Galician words are quite different from Spanish words?


A CHALLENGE: join the words in the two columns correctly!


                         Galician                                                                 English

                    BOLBORETA           -                                  -           AFFECTION   

                    AGARIMO                -                                 -           HOMESICKNESS

                    MORRIÑA                -                                  -           FIREFLY

                    VAGALUME             -                                  -          OWL

                    MOUCHO                  -                                 -          BUTTERFLY