tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 14 11:09:33 1994
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Help!
- From: [email protected] (Jennifer James)
- Subject: Help!
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 13:34:00 -0640
- Organization: TRAVEL ONLINE / ST. LOUIS ONLINE - (314) 561-3874
-=> Quoting Klingon Language List to Jennifer James on 06-08-94 10:06 <=-
KLL> Why am I calling for help? Because I have just been hired by Wake Tech
KLL> Community College (Raleigh, NC) to teach a ten-week class in Klingon
KLL> Language and Culture. The class will be one night a week for three
KLL> hours per night, starting September 19 and running through November 21.
Hi Steve!
I'm new to this mailing list (in fact this is the first message I've
entered). I'm also just starting to learn tlhIngan. But I have
some thoughts about your course (which sounds really exciting, BTW.
Congrats!).
KLL> 2) things to do in/with class: drills, learning games, tips, etc.
When I was learing French in high school, I had a couple of really
excellent teachers and got to an almost fluent level in three years.
Some things they did in class that really helped:
* Spoke almost exclusively in the language they were teaching,
starting from day one. If they had to say something in
English, they repeated it in French. They even taught us the
French equivalents for grammar terminology as we went along.
* Did one-on-one drills in class, in French, for which the
tlhIngan equivalent would be something like:
ghojmoHwI': qama' legh'a' yaS
ghojwI': qama' legh yaS
ghojmoHwI': qama' Dalegh'a'
ghojwI': qama vIlegh
ghojmoHwI': qama'pu' bolegh'a'
ghojwI': qama'pu' DIlegh
ghojmoHwI': qama'pu' DaHoHta''a'
ghojwI': qama'pu' vIHoHta'
And so forth, in order to get the students to have an almost
instinctive knowledge of the conjugations, or in the case of
tlhIngan, pronomial prefixes ("wotmoHaqmey"?) and suffixes
(mojaQmey).
* Showed us a picture and had us make up a story about it in the
language they were teaching. This should be especially fun
with tlhIngan... ;-)
* We were not allowed to speak English in class, except to ask
questions like "What is the word for ___?" If we spoke
English, we had to do an extra assignment: write a
paragraph-long essay in the language we were learning.
* Once a week, those of us who were interested ate lunch with
the professors, and again, no English was allowed during the
meal. All discussion had to be in the language we were
learning, except for questions like the one above.
The most important thing I learned in that class, besides French,
was that the best way to learn a language is to =use it= as much as
possible.
Hope this helps.
Qapla'
Jennifer James
Internet: [email protected]
... "ghomtaH, Wayne." "ghomtaH, Garth."
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