[Tlhingan-hol] Hints and tips : Verb prefixes

[mayql qunenoS]

> Given the current strong group of beginners, you might start a "royal we" conversation for prefix practice.

what does this mean ? you mean writing and instead of using "I" using "we" ?

cpt qunnoq

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:43 AM, John R. Harness <cartweel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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