Tomorrow, registration reopens! This week was chapter 5.2! What a difficult one to end the semester on! Many people are still finishing it – don’t worry, finish away. If you fell behind, now is your chance to catch up! I’d like everyone to be done with chapter 5.2 before September
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Class Progress Report – 12th Week
This week is Chapter 5.1. Most of the students are now graduated to being Intermediate students (you can see if you’re on the list here)! This lesson, most people had a pretty easy time with the plural forms. The ones that caused some confusion was the Archaic versus later Sindarin
Class Progress Report – 11th Week
Only a handful of people have attempted chapter 4.2, but most have opted out. That’s my fault, as I fell behind in homework correcting and that meant people were rushed this week. Very, very few errors. The errors that I’ve found were more like simple spelling errors or typos. A
Class Progress Report – 10th Week
No one else dropped out this week! Chapter 4.1 is quite simple, and a good chance for people to review old material. This assignment took people longer than other assignments, but there were a lot fewer errors in it, even though the translations were quite complex. I think it’s because
Class Progress Report – 9th Week
Chapter 3.4 was much, much easier for people. Many people got 100% on their first tries, and those who didn’t usually got 100% on their second try. The things that people struggled with were usually the fact that the imperative can means something other than a command, and where to
Class Progress Report – 8th Week
3 students dropped out at this point. Chapter 3.3 was quite difficult for a lot of people! It’s to be expected though, and I’m not sure there is a way around it. A lot of technical vocabulary is introduced at this point, and the differences between the syntax for pronouns
Class Progress Report – 7th Week
Chapter 3.2 is much more difficult, much more technical. Most people took 2 to 3 tries to get a 100%. Conflating “of” and “to be” were the most common problems. To tell the difference, you have to pay careful attention to which words are mutated. I’m thinking of breaking this
Class Progress Report – 6th Week
This week, the Sindarin 101 students graduated to being Beginners! This lesson went very smoothly. There were only a handful of people who didn’t get a 100% on their first try, and those who didn’t usually got 100% on their second try. I am thinking of moving the article “The”
Class Progress Report – 5th Week
No one dropped out this week! Again, a few people opted out of the Classical Mode Tengwar lesson. By then, most people had a grip on the punctuation systems, so there were few errors in the punctuation. Instead, there was some confusion over how to do the vowels. Several people
Class Progress Report – 4th Week
No one dropped out this week! Though, several people opted out of taking the Angerthas lesson. I’m guessing because it isn’t the iconic Elven script like the tengwar-based systems are. There weren’t any problems with the PDFs this time around, since people were used to them. Punctuation in Angerthas is
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