Re: New Website! Chovur (with sound)

> From: Joseph Fatula [mailto:fatula3@ATTGLOBAL.NET]
> What sorts of things would you recommend?  As I made up the
I'm not the person being addressed, but peering at lesson 1:

You may want to add two things:

A short list of the vocabulary used in your examples.

And comment on (if I puzzled it out correctly) what appears to be a VSO
word order.

Right now, the reader has to work that out from "elimination &
repetition", that is:

Looking at the sentences, I assume "se" being translated as "is" in the
english, and that "kosich" is eats.  Only because they're duplicated in
sentences next to each other.  Next, with a little more elimination, I
can work out that horse is "senga" (because of the two different
sentences with a horse).  From there, if I assume that senga's position
is significant, I can work out the rest.

Something like (lesson 0, perhaps) might introduce a basic sentence and
"break it down" so that the reader can see what is what in a sentence
(and get 2-4 vocabulary items simultaneously).

Without reading the whole thingl, I suspect what you're missing is
explainatory text...you have examples that demonstrate the features of
the language, but no supporting text to guide the reader so that he/she
knows what they're being shown. :)

I often have the same problem...I don't write enough text explaining
what I mean (in everything I write...hmm...talking also). :)

> language, it all seems very easy to me, of course.  What
Don't you hate that? Although, an adventure is not working with it for a
few months and coming back...some of it isn't easy anymore. :)


Iain

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