tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 11 04:17:26 2000
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Re: The Postal Course
Obviously I should send you my college transcripts. I took two years of Latin.
The courses were broken down pretty well at the beginning. They increased the
amount of work after a few lessons. No. I never took Old Icelandic. My dual
major was Chinese Mandarin and Language Arts and Methods.
The more different the language is from one's mother tongue, the easier the
beginning lessons should be. I did not make up this statement; I got it from my
methods professors.
There are two (or more) kinds of university language courses: those which teach
students to read the classics as early as possible and those which patiently
drill basics aloud so the student speaks until "feeling" the target language. I
attended the latter kind, and I am glad I did.
tlhIngan Hol wIlo'nISmo' Dung QIn vImugh 'e' vInID:
SoHvaD DuSaQ'a' tameywIj vIlabnIS'a'? cha' DISmey Latin Hol vIHaDpu'.
mataghDI' Qatlhqu'be' Hoch 'ay'. matlherghDI' QatlhchoH. toH. not Old
Icelandic Hol vIHaDpu'. DuSaQ'aDaq China'ngan ta' Hol ghojmoHmeH mIwmey je
vIbuS.
Hol ghojmeH mIw cha' Segh DuSaQ'a' tu'lu': no' Hol paqmey laDchoHlaH ghojwI'pu'
neH DuSaQ'a' Segh wa'DIch. Hol luqeqmeH ghojwI'pu' 'ej Holvam ngeDbogh
qechmeyna' potlh ghojchu'meH, ghogh lulo' chaH neH DuSaQ'a' Segh cha'DIch. Segh
cha'DIch vIjeSta'mo' jIQuch.
peHruS
marian danzig wrote:
> >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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