Emoji Language Beginner Lessons

This lesson is part of a series that teaches the basics of the Emoji Language.

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Lesson One: Getting to know each other

This lesson describes two people – Ann and Bob – meeting for the first time.

Text

Ann: 👋

Bob: 👋

Ann: 🗨️ 👥 👆 ✌️ 🇺🇸🇳🇵🇳🇵👩 ✌️

Bob: 🗨 👥 👆 ✌️ 🇧🇷🇴🇲🇧🇷👨 ✌️

Interlinear Translation

New Vocabulary

👋	interj.	hello! (also: bye!)
👥	n.	people (always plural)
👆	pp.	I, me
🗨	v.	to call so./sth.
👩	n.	woman
👨	n.	man
✌️	punct.	(quotation marks)

Explanation

In this lesson, you already discovered the most important rule to follow when using the Emoji Language: The verb (in this case 🗨) always comes first in any sentence – unlike English, for example, where the verb often appears in the middle of a sentence.

Placing the verb at the beginning of a sentences makes it much easier to spot which of the emoji actually represents the verb, because sometimes the same emoji can be used both as a noun and a verb.

Letters of the Latin alphabet (A, B, C …) are not available as emoji. That's why flags are used to spell names of people, places, and so on instead. A flag stands for the first letter of that country's name. (See the grammar section 7.2 for a full list.)

Exercise

1. Head over to the Flag Spelling Translator and enter your name.
2. Tell someone what your name looks like in Emoji Language by putting it in the example sentence from the dialogue above.
3. Ideally, find a partner who will respond with their name.

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View the solutions to the exercises or continue with the ⏩ next lesson.

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