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Ai sabi tok Frentj na!

I wrote a post a while back about a little boy thinking I was speaking French when I was actually speaking Kriol. Well, I'm pleased to say, I speak French now! Haha. Not quite. I recorded old MT telling a story about one of her paintings the other day:   The painting is actually a gift for a French volunteer who has been working at the Art Centre here at Ngukurr for a few months.  So, after working with the recording in the usual way by transcribing MT's Marra and adding a Kriol translation (thanks to FR), I also added an English translation which was then translated into French! So, for the first time, I now have a Marra recording translated into French. Maybe it's a world first! Here's an extract of what MT told us (and yes, the French sounds clumsy sometimes because it's a fairly literal translation): Nana ninya, warr-iwiganji "rambaramba". Nyingaya-wajurlu gunyan, ya-girriya-ni, gana ngarr-abama. Gana ngarr-abama mingi gana... warlindu mi