May progress report

    As I have been waiting for the Duolingo Course to open in June.  I have been trying to get the accusative -n is used when a noun or pronoun is the direct object of a verb in my head.  As I never did understand parts of sentences in English it is a huge challenge to me, my email tutor has been helping me a lot on by giving input on many practice sentences.  I have also created several Google documents to give me an opportunity to practice.  I am coming to the conclusion it will just take a lot of time for me and to continue working on the language and perhaps I will start to pick it up better.

  So for practice and subject to future editing I wrote a little short story called 'Ni Venas Paroli Kun Vi En Vian Lingvon' about some aliens who come to earth to speak to us in what they believe is our universal earth language.  I will preface that it is a rather rough telling of a story as I fully realize it is full of beginner language errors.  When I understand the language better I plan to update or repost it with corrections I have learned.

  I have been outside more since the weather has improved.  So when not up to a bit of yard work(read weeding and watering) I have been using Memrise to try to get the vocabulary down for "Gerda Malaperis" so I can try to watch it on youtube and understand it better.

The Case of the Accusative -N

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   What attracted me to Esperanto language is its logic and its standardized structure.  Being and American English user and taking word order for granted I am having difficultly learning accusatives relating to the -n ending.  But I see it as a necessary tough learning curve I must master.  I see it as necessary so other speakers from other languages that use different word order than mine can under stand my sentences. Those from other languages that use different word order from my language must learn -n ending as well so I can understand them.  That is the whole idea of Esperanto to me.  As a new user I want standardization even if at first it is difficult to me.

   I defiantly need practice.  Right now I kludge around Esperanto sentences sounding like a cave man.  I defiantly need practice remembering words on the fly.  According to Memrise I know over 2923 words but I reality it must be 1/3 that that I really know.  Also consider that I am dong several decks that duplicate many of them.  I do cards a lot at Memrise, enough so that I have earned the badge of Memonist with over 2,500,000 pts almost exclusively spent trying to memorize Esperanto words.

   I am now going through the book 'Ni Parolu Espernaton Kune'  by Charlotte Kohrs, M,A.   It has been a great little starter book for me from Esperanto-usa.org it has all the basics of speaking Esperanto along with simple reading sentences.  The print quality is that of a printer on fast draft mode but is "good" enough to read comfortably.  I am using its simple sentences to help me learn the finer points (such as the accusative -n) and reading simple sentences.

  Off and on I also read a few sentences of Gerda Malaperis at ReadLang.com as the site helps with words I do not know by letting me click on them to get a translation only as needed.

   Travis, A helpful English language teacher is helping me with sentence structure via email.  By writing some basic sentences to him in EO and letting him edit them it will help me to put together better sentences. This will give me a Very Big head start for when the Duolingo course starts.

   He is learning Esperanto himself but is catching on quickly as seen here in his YouTube Pensoj en Esperanto (Journals) .  Being an English language teacher by trade and familiar with language structure it will be very helpful to him as he learns and continues on to help others like me.  I really appreciate his help.

So practice makes proficiency:

  Mi ankaŭ need al praktikan skribon.  Mi estas tre Novan studenton.  Mi koni that al skribi pli estas bonan ideon.  La vortoj mi koni on la flugi does ne allow mi tre multaj sentences sen krokodoli English mixed en.

   Lol.  Ouch that hurt trying to read that back to myself.  Don't worry I won't do any more of that to you.  Maybe by next post my attempt at making on the fly sentences will not be so painful and perhaps also will properly use the accusative -n as well.  No one will at least be able to accuse me of not trying. ;)

  This post brought to you by the letter -N and Cafe Press for the picture.