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LibreLingo-twi-from-english

LibreLingo Twi course for English speakers

Initially proposed course structure

  • Twi-from-english [course]
    • basics [module]
      • animals1 (teach open o and open e) [skill]
      • animals2 (teach diagraphs hy, hw, ky, tw, etc
      • pronouns: me, wo, ono, ɛho, yen, mo, wono
      • basic nouns: efie, edan
    • introduction
      • greetings
      • mepa wo kyew, akwaaba, medaase, ete sen, aane, daabi
      • basic questions
      • me din de, me te, madi mfe, me firi
    • family
    • directions (left right, turn, there, here, activity and locations)
    • market (fruits, veggies, meat, seasonings)
    • time week days + adverbs today, now later (when)
    • cooking
    • home (items and rooms)
    • hobbies
    • watch + numbers
    • body parts and movements (head sholders knees and toes)
    • personal hygiene
    • colors
    • names
    • religion: nyame, onyankopon, awuradee,
    • nsem den: kwasia, gyimini
    • proverbs

Each module should have:

  • a theme
  • a grammar focus
  • some new words (easily visually representable)
  • new verbs
  • sentences and dialogue excerpts

Grammar to be included into modules and skills:

  • yɛ vs wɔ
  • ne vs na
  • negation
  • tenses fut, pres. cont., past, perfect
  • plural
  • negations
  • prepositions
  • questions (sentence order)
  • conjunctions
  • possesive pronouns
  • articles (no, bi, wei, yi)
  • personal pronouns (obi, obiara, obiara en)
  • numbers
  • cardinal numbers

Words to include:

verbs: ko, ba, firi, nante, dane, dwene, twere, kenkan, kan, kyere, hwoma, kasa, ka, te, te ase, to dwom, di, didi, nua, nom
adjectives: foforo, fefeefe, kesie, dendeende adverbs: nso, seisei, sesiara, dabiara, okyena, enora, nawotwe

Useful LiLi links

https://github.com/RGBradley/LibreLingo-EU-from-EN
kantord/LibreLingo#2187
https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo/blob/main/docs/courses/editing-courses.md
https://github.com/pur80a/LibreLingo

Usful links:

ToDos:

  • how to help with this course
  • process
  • pair themes with grammar focus points
  • add this course to the official lili dev courses
  • add macos docs to official lili docs

Set up of developement environment on macos with homebrew

goes to https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo/blob/main/docs/index.md

brew update 
brew upgrade 
brew install nvm node poetry yarn 
mkdir ~/.nvm
# into ~/.zshrc
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion
#
nvm install 14
reopen shell
git clone git clone [email protected]:LibreLingo/LibreLingo.git LibreLingo.git
cd LibreLingo.git
yarn install 
yarn web dev 
#mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin 
#export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
#ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 $HOME/.local/bin/python
yarn web run installAllExternalCourses
#PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/apps/librelingo_types yarn exportAllCourses
python -m venv ../llvenv
source ../llvenv/bin/activate
#######################
pip install regex uni-slugify editdistance click bleach html2markdown markdown yaml8
PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/apps/librelingo_types:$PWD/apps/librelingo_utils:$PWD/apps/librelingo_yaml_loader yarn exportAllCourses
#######################
poetry install
cd apps/librelingo_yaml_loader
poetry install
cd ../../apps/librelingo_json_export
poetry install
cd ../..
#optional
pip install yaml8
yarn exportAllCourses
yarn web dev 

feedback

  • more sentences
  • early cool sentences : affirmations, quotations, proverbs
  • funny things, memes
  • useful things for day to day usage
  • pronomes & affirmations
  • food and recipes
  • body umd movements
  • your eyes are big
  • affirmation = pronouns + adjectives
  • affirmations, then one feels better
  • numbers + fruits
  • colors
  • dry and juicy skills alernately
  • if no picture fits, choose a single pic as memory anchor

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