Hi dipa,

I think the colums is still hidden. You can unhide it or douwnload the
new file, I fixed it there.

I have a jmemorise file for a new course in reading pali. I asked the
author of the book (the copyright holder) for permision to publish it
on the forum.

Metta,

Ria

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Dipa ." <dipaeightprecepter@...> wrote:
>
> 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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