Tfw trying to learn my native language [spoiler]sinhalese[/spoiler]

>tfw trying to learn my native language [spoiler]sinhalese[/spoiler]
>next to zero resources online or anywhere in sight
Feels bad man

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>learn my native language
Did you forget it?

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If your parents don't know it and your grandparents don't know it then it's not your native language

In addition to ...Even if personally you don't know it, it's not your native language.

Sorry, the native language of my motherland.
My parents speak it, I speak English back to them

So why can't you just find some time to speak with them? Can you ask them to teach you?

There are tons of chinese courses out there, senpai.

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It's difficult. It sounds awful but the truth is there's a communication barrier between us. I used to be billingual as a child but I lost the skill somewhere along the line.
Also live away from them, but when I do ask them to be taught, they don't really understand how awful I am in it so it's hard for them to stoop down to my level to teach me.
The sad truth is most people have never even heard of the language. Makes me so sad to see lists of 100s of languages for product documentation sometimes, but never is it included.

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That's a problem. I don't know how to help you than. You can imagine yourself some sort of explorer and try to learn the language after your parents' speech/text they left. It's a hard thing as far as you need to know basics and have much free time

I've pretty much just been learning off of Wikipedia so far.
Finding grammar resources and learning examples is the hard part now

Do you know how the writing system of this language works?

*how does

Yeah, for the most part.
Its syllabary and I pretty much have that down pat.

That's a great startpoint.
As for me the language skills in general includes: hearing skill, writing-reading skill, speaking skill. If you can write words after your parents' speech and even receive some basic phrases, you have a key to solve the grammar puzzle, which is the 40% of language. I know, it's easy in theory, on practice it's hundreds of hours spent on learning. I understand how hard it is. I've learned English here, on practice mostly, and still have lots of problems with it, as you can see.

Your English is good, I couldn't tell. Great work user.
I guess the biggest struggle is finding people that speak the language. It pretty much doesn't exist in Canada.
I've been making anki flashcards for basic words and the like. It's also confusing that the grammar rules have basically no correlation to what exists in English.

Is there a relative language of the same language group (like Russian-ukrainian or French-Spanish) which grammar rules are close to sinhalese? You can try to find some resources on it, maybe information you gain there will be useful.

lingvist.info/?s=Sinhalese you might find something good here.

Hmm. Supposedly it shares some grammatical rules with dravidian languages, but they are extremely different
I'll probably just stick to Wikipedia for the time being
Thanks user, I'll look into it

Ok, I wish you luck then, Canon. I hope you will find the people to speak sinhalese with.

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There's some sinhalese in this mega
mega.nz/#F!x4VG3DRL!lqecF4q2ywojGLE0O8cu4A!NwcEhKyD

Oh wow that's a lot to look at. Thanks user