Re: Tatari Faran update

From: "Amanda Babcock Furrow" <langs@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:01 AM

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:12:52PM -0700, H. S. Teoh
> wrote:
>
>> What do y'all think is the best approach?
Having a look at it can't hurt.

> I suppose that the conversational method must be best for
> normal people.
> Indeed, in a classroom setting it's definitely good to be
> using the
> language for meta-operations like the instructor giving
> simple commands
> such as "repeat after me" even prior to actually
> understanding *why* that
> means "repeat after me" - in other words, using the
> language to learn
> the language.
I only learnt some weeks later that ['lA:s.t@.,vQ:l] breaks
down as _last of all_ and means "der allerletzte". Same for
['hu5.:r\i.,ri:d.T{:t]. ;-) But that was nine years ago when
I first came across English in school.

> Who failed to announce the birth of Peter 5/10/2006, for
> lack of time to
> write a birth announcement in merechi!
Belated congratulations then!!

Carsten

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