[Tlhingan-hol] Hints and tips : Verb prefixes

[John R. Harness]

qunnoQ is absolutely right. His method is very reasonable, I think, to
master memorization of the table. It is essentially what I did, testing
myself each day to try to write out the chart. Now I am definitely in the
middle of making things "automatic," which simply comes from using the
prefixes in writing in speech! But now I'm not intimidated by mu- or nu-!

Let me share another exercise that I've used: It is a little like the
children's "memory" game. I cut up pieces of paper into small "cards" and
wrote all the verb prefixes on some of them, and a few (10 or so?) verbs on
the faces of other cards. I'd pick up a prefix card and a verb card and
combine them into a prefix+verb, which I would then try to translate AS
QUICKLY AS I COULD. I did this until I had used all the prefixes, then
repeated.

Keep working and you will soon master the prefixes!

'arHa

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> > This has been sooo hard to memorize for me.
>
> If you like,give this method a try ; maybe it will solve your problem.
> It takes a while,
> (to me it took about a month), however eventually you will be able to
> remember
> the entire table.
>
> Also I should say, that even if you memorize the entire table, the
> only thing that will have
> happened, is just that ; the memorization of the table. Meaning that
> when the time will come
> to actually write, you will have to pause before each verb (at least
> that's what is happening
> with me) recite in your mind the appropriate column, until you find
> the prefix you're searching
> for. I guess, that in order for the prefixes to become "automatic",
> meaning in order for them to
> be coming to your mind during writing in a spontaneous manner, a lot
> of practice needs to take
> place.. The only prefixes so far, I have "spontaneous" in my mind are
> jI-, qa-, Sa- and vI !
>
> But the good thing will be, that eventually you will have the entire
> table in your mind.
>
> cpt qunnoQ
>
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