tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 09 01:16:05 2000
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Re: The Postal Course
- From: "marian danzig" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The Postal Course
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 09:15:50 GMT
>Let's set aside layout problems, such as too much in any one
>lesson, let alone the first lesson--too many grammar
>concepts for one lesson, too many vocabulary entries for one
>lesson. This should have been broken up into many lessons,
>at least for not-really-linguist-expert students.
you've obviously never studied a language like latin or old icelandic at
university level, have you? there is nowhere near too much grammar at this
level. i mean, you actually want to learn something don't you? if you think
these few points are too much for a lesson, then maybe you could reassess
the level of motivation and commitment you are willing to dedicate to
learning the language. if you go too slow in a language lesson, you simply
are not going to learn anything. you need to have to push your mind a little
in order for the foriegn points of language to stick in your memory.
>Many
>accomplished linguists would not need this course because
>they are capable of wading through TKD's complex grammar
>section.
my latin teacher has been teaching latin at various levels (from beginner to
fourth year honours and post grad) for 37 years, and he operates from the
basis that there is no such thing as an 'accomplished' linguist - just one
with more experience than someone else. no one is ever given 'useless'
material in learning a language.
>"Finally, for everything else (i.e., neither language users
>nor body parts), -mey is used." Only three (3) types of
>plurals are referred to in the Postal Course. What happens
>to the fourth kind of singular/plural pair?
what happened to your complaint that there was too much material in the
lesson?
>I fear the student is in for some major confusion.
i did this lesson when the course was still being run thru the post, and i
never found it confusing. i found it quite well set out actually (and in
case you are wondering, i only got one question wrong - i left the "Hol" out
of Q18).
do you know that over the last 8 months you have posted more critical posts
than constructive ones? i would hav thought that in a forum like this, some
balance would have been appreciated by the others on the list, but as i seem
to be the only one who has noticed this. . .
-S'Qal-
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