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2nd Grade
Introduction
In the Kindergarten class you learned the very basics of writing the Assyrian alphabet.
In the 1st. Grade you learned the Assyrian alphabet, the vowels (zow'ei) and the auxiliary list of the alphabet.
In the 2nd Grade the words will be discussed in a spelling manner, i.e, how and based on what pattern they are built.
As I have mentioned earlier, this course focuses on spelling of the words, which the verb and its root has a great impact on them. Here, we will study why, for example, "zqapa" is used and not "ptakha", or "waow rwasa" is used instead of "waow rwakha". We will not, however, discuss the relationship between phrases and sentences or the construction of sentence.
This course goes straight to the point how the words are spelled. It is not a traditional way of learning a language. I will be skipping a lot of elementary and advanced stages, and will be looking at the language in a different angle. After a few lessons, the reader will realize he/she has learned not just to remember the words, but their structures, a pattern of how they were built. The reader can always open up the dictionary and look the words up, but how they were built, one needs to know the root of them and how they came to become the way they are now.
In the 1st. Grade you learned the Assyrian alphabet, the vowels (zow'ei) and the auxiliary list of the alphabet.
In the 2nd Grade the words will be discussed in a spelling manner, i.e, how and based on what pattern they are built.
As I have mentioned earlier, this course focuses on spelling of the words, which the verb and its root has a great impact on them. Here, we will study why, for example, "zqapa" is used and not "ptakha", or "waow rwasa" is used instead of "waow rwakha". We will not, however, discuss the relationship between phrases and sentences or the construction of sentence.
This course goes straight to the point how the words are spelled. It is not a traditional way of learning a language. I will be skipping a lot of elementary and advanced stages, and will be looking at the language in a different angle. After a few lessons, the reader will realize he/she has learned not just to remember the words, but their structures, a pattern of how they were built. The reader can always open up the dictionary and look the words up, but how they were built, one needs to know the root of them and how they came to become the way they are now.
WordDefinition of "Word": A word is a collection of letters that means something. For example: apple, boy, flower, good, and, went, etc.
Different kinds of wordThere are four (4) kinds of words:
1. adverbs and prepositions: a, the, of, for, from, nicely, proudly, very, much, how, etc. 2. verbs: go, went, walked, had gone, laugh 3. nouns: cat, chair, food, Assyria, Iran, America, Stephanie, Angel 4. adjectives: good, bad, cute, ugly, smooth, rough |