[Tlhingan-hol] Royal We Beginners' Conversation

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HIja'. majawtaHvIS, nutlhej vay' 'e' wIghetjaj maH tlhIH je.
reboQlaH 'ej Supo'choHmo' cheQuchmoH.
moHaqmey qub DIlo' 'ej maQuchchuqmoH.

SKI: We and y'all will correspond using first and second person plural.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mayql qunenoS [mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com]
> Sent: December 28, 2015 8:13
> To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Hints and tips : Verb prefixes
> 
> > 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
> >
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:56:29 +0200
> >> From: mayql qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com>
> >> To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Hints and tips : Verb prefixes
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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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