Hi Ria,
I downloaded the new files for vocabulary. I don't yet understand why
this will make things easier to remember. Will that be something that
applies later ie needing to know the gender of the nouns and neuter words?

Also, the new spreadsheet is not working for me. There is no place to check
the answer that I can see in the new spreadsheet. Has that part changed as
well?

thanks,
Dipa
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, grasje <grasje@...> wrote:

> Dear pali-learners,
>
> There is a new file for Jmemorise, to learn the alphabetical order.
>
> I exchanged the files for the Pali primer vocabulary and the
> vocabulary for the Elementary course with new ones. In the new ones
> the masculine and neuter nouns in a are presented in their nominal
> form (as ending in o and a.m). This makes it easier to remember the
> gender of these words.
> In the vocabularies for Warder and the New course the words were
> already presented in this way.
>
> The spreadsheet for learning the vocabulary has been modified in this
> way as well.
>
> If you have already practiced some lessons and want to keep them on
> stack 5 or so, do the following:
> Open your existing vocabulary. Delete all chapters you did not learn yet.
> Import the new vocabulary. Delete from the imported vocabulary the
> chapters you don't need.
>
> ===========
> In the Netherland they recently made a list of 3.000 words that
> children should know before they start to learn to read. This is to
> prevent children from having dificulties with reading, then hating
> school and then dropping out.
> In kindergarten they should now learn about 10 words a day (teachers
> are discouraged to be content with 3 words a day) to know sufficient
> words at the age of 6. For an average newspaper it seems that one
> needs a vocabulary of about 10.000 words.
>
> All entries in all vocabularies together add up to 5.451. If you leave
> out the double ones, (and triple, quadruple), there are 3.881 words to
> learn. Of these, quite a bit are somehow related: Kassako = farmer.
> Kassati = he ploughs. It is a lot of words to learn, but if you pick
> up 10 words a day....
>
> Just to put these long lists in perspective.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ria
>
>
>


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