[89280] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Verb Prefix Chart
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HurDaghchu7wI7@gmail.com)
Wed Aug 31 09:32:57 2011
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:26:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "HurDaghchu7wI7@gmail.com" <hurdaghchu7wi7@gmail.com>
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As someone who has been learning tlhIngan Hol for wa' jar I can say that I have found it easiest to break up the prefixes into groups as the KLCP does. I then study the first nine or so prefixes (jI-, bI-, ma-, etc) and try to use them as much as possible, in speaking and writing. I've also found two other things useful: 1.) Mentally inserting the 0- or null prefix when I use it rather than ignoring it,and secondly to view (correctly or incorrectly, jISaHbe') the prefixes as "conjugation" of the verbs rather than additional words to learn.
As is the case in my Pali language studies, it's really about rote memorization. Most modern day language students don't realize how important repetition is. One of the ways I learned my Pali noun declensions is to buy several blank notebooks and write the entire declension table about two hundred times. If you read any Pali or Sanskrit grammar from the last century, they are full of declension charts to repeat over and over. It takes time, but in six months you can burn these concepts into your head for life. We modern students want it easy, but learning any foreign language is not for the indolent. Shortcuts only cheat us out of a very rewarding experience :).
yItaH 'ej yIcheptaH
HurDagh chu'wI'
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:45:59 am
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: "Lieven Litaer" <lieven.litaer@web.de>
Subject: Re: Verb Prefix Chart
I believe it depends on how you want to use it, to learn or to use it
while learning?
Many people set up a table like it is used in TKD. I am using a table
where the prefixes are sorted from an english (or german) point of view,
because that's how you search for them, for instance
I (no object) = ...
I - you = ...
I - him = ...
I - them = ...
you (no object) = ..
you - you = ...
you - him = ...
you - them = ...
etc.
