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Re: Basic Vocabulary



>>I have a goal to be able to speak fluently enough to be able to
>>attend the next qep'a' and participate in conversations with 
>>relative ease. 
 
> Experienced speakers might choose different words in some cases, but
> the dialogue is understandable. (Lawrence, you rejected my suggestion
> of developing vocabulary sheets so that beginners would have some words
> to aim for, and advanced speakers would know what vocabulary to use to
> be understood by the beginnners. Would you reconsider it if the
> vocabulary sheets were sent out BEFORE qep'a'?)

Let's not forget the context for my decision. We tried this before, at
qep'a' cha'DIch I think, and it didn't work.  Putting together that list
involved polling the various Grammarians and the process took too long
and was started too late.  People at the qep'a' did not want to be
studying vocabulary lists. 

However, that was back when I was having to do *all* the qep'a'
preparations myself.  The qep'a' loSDIch ran considerably smoother for
me, and I hope that next summer's event involves even more delegation of
tasks.  That being the case, since I will doubtless be doing progress
report mailings to all registered qep'a' attendees, it would be easy to
include a list weeks (possibly months) in advance, and I would
definitely support and implement such a plan.  Are you herebye
volunteering to to gather, edit, and send me such a list some time in
the Spring?  If you (or someone else) volunteers to handle that part,
I'll see to the actual printing and mailing of the vocabulary sheets.

Lawrence

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