One down, one to go!
One down and one to go: the seminar marathon continues for another week!
We finished the Discover Your Language course well. All the participants worked hard until the final day. We put the rough draft of the 3 short grammar outlines into booklets and printed them for each of the participants. So, I think the seminar was a success. At least now several leaders in the Tete community know what we do in SIL. They have expressed interest in continuing the cooperation with us through the revision of the grammar notes.
Seminar 2 is halfway over. We finished the first 20 lessons of the Nyungwe Primer and teacher's manual in the first week. There were hiccups and a slow start, but we are doing it. We have gotten into a rhythm and it seems like things will be easier from now on. Imagine writing a paragraph with only vowels and the letter "n". That is how we started! Second lesson we could add "t". Third lesson we added "m" and so on. We are now using about 16 letters and writing is easier!
Keep praying. We have lots to do before we end on Friday. And then we will need to revise the Nyungwe grammar notes and the Primer before the test version and pilot materials are ready.
It is busy and tiring, exciting and challenging. The kids are coping well during this intensive month. After next week we will get into a more normal routine. Soon the kids will have a half-term break. This time we really want to get away for a few days as a family. It is about time!
We finished the Discover Your Language course well. All the participants worked hard until the final day. We put the rough draft of the 3 short grammar outlines into booklets and printed them for each of the participants. So, I think the seminar was a success. At least now several leaders in the Tete community know what we do in SIL. They have expressed interest in continuing the cooperation with us through the revision of the grammar notes.
Seminar 2 is halfway over. We finished the first 20 lessons of the Nyungwe Primer and teacher's manual in the first week. There were hiccups and a slow start, but we are doing it. We have gotten into a rhythm and it seems like things will be easier from now on. Imagine writing a paragraph with only vowels and the letter "n". That is how we started! Second lesson we could add "t". Third lesson we added "m" and so on. We are now using about 16 letters and writing is easier!
Keep praying. We have lots to do before we end on Friday. And then we will need to revise the Nyungwe grammar notes and the Primer before the test version and pilot materials are ready.
It is busy and tiring, exciting and challenging. The kids are coping well during this intensive month. After next week we will get into a more normal routine. Soon the kids will have a half-term break. This time we really want to get away for a few days as a family. It is about time!
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