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[Tlhingan-hol] yInwIj vIparHa'qu'

Robyn Stewart ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So, remember nuq bop bom? I started out writing a two-page short story and eight months later realized I was most of the way through a novel with insufficient advance</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">planning</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, multiple characters</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> with different motivations</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and three</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">interwoven</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">plotlines</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">that needed resolution?</FONT></SPAN></P>

<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I&#8217;ve sort of done it again.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Lawrence wanted to revitalize the KLI website. I said it needed a course leading to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Level One KLPC test, and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I started writing one.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">separated the vocabulary into thematic groups</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, ordered the grammar in a way that allowed useful progress and interleaved repetition but still built one thing upon another,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">planned out which vocabulary</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">should be introduced before and after which grammatical concept</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">My favourite</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">language</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">textbooks in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">school all had little</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">pictorial</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">&#8220;dialogues&#8221; demonstrating each topic, featuring the same characters in ongoing plotlines</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, so I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> went to a build-your-own-cartoon site and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> threw up one of those to illustrate the first lesson, and found them to be a fun way to tie the vocabulary together and encourage the student to read the language.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca">&nbsp;<FONT FACE="Calibri"> And now a few months in I realize I have multiple characters with different motivations and three interwoven plotlines that really ought to be resolved</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">by the time the student gets to the final wordlist.<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Calibri">loDnalwI&#8217;vaD lutvam vIja&#8217;DI&#8217; jatlh ghaH, &#8220;So</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> not satisfied with writing the first Klingon novel, you&#8217;re following it up with the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">first Klingon graphic novel? I think you might need better illustrations.&#8221;</FONT></SPAN></P>

<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Qov</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>

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