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New 'Game Of Thrones' App Will Make You Fluent In Dothraki Before Winter Comes. There's nearly half a year before "Game of Thrones" returns, and how you spend the time could go one of two ways.
You could either rewatch all four seasons (because, duh), or you could learn Dothraki while binge-watching so you understand what the heck people are saying. Thanks to a new app from Random House, you can now learn Dothraki in full, the language created for the series by linguist David J. Speak Like The Khaleesi With This New 'Game Of Thrones' Language Course. "Game of Thrones," known for gruesome deaths and gratuitous sex scenes, will soon also be recognized for its educational contributions.
This fall, HBO is rolling out an entirely unique language course dedicated to the first tribe the Mother of Dragons ever ruled. "Living Language Dothraki: A Conversational Language Course Based on the Hit Original HBO Series 'Game of Thrones'" is a new venture the network is launching along with resident "GoT" linguist David Peterson that is meant to help fans of the fantasy drama delve even deeper into the realms of the Seven Kingdoms by exercising a certain muscle: the tongue. The course contains over 500 words from the Dothraki language including a few new phrases created specifically for the language guide. But only the ultimate "GoT" fans should think about signing up for this lesson.
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8 Fun Facts About the Valyrian Language of 'Game of Thrones' In the first two seasons of Game of Thrones, we heard the language of the horse-riding warrior Dothraki people (and here are seven fun facts about that language).
The next two seasons introduced Valyrian, a group of languages worked out to a much greater degree than is evident on the show by language creator David Peterson. Here are eight fun facts about Valyrian for you to ponder as the new season gets underway. Old Valyria was an ancient empire (sort of like Rome) that no longer exists in the setting of the show, but its language, High Valyrian (sort of like Latin) is still spoken as a learned language by a select elite (sort of like Latin).
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