rdearman - FLC Log for Czech & Setswana

[rdearman]

I've added in a daily newspaper from Botswana which has some articles in Setswana. So I can print out a page of current affairs stuff and work my way through it. This might be a little better than tweets because there is bound to be more repetition.

[rdearman]

I've been translating a newspaper article by creating a 2 column document in libreoffice. I have started to remember some words now, and I have learned that Google maps doesn't have a very good list of place names in Botswana. This last tidbit of information is annoying because I don't know if some of the words I'm trying to translate are proper nouns or something else. Sigh...

Interpretation of some of this is really awkward.

Chief his ward (go|my) Molosiwa(N?) (him|this|on) white person. Mr Commet Baitlhapi is kgadile habit (his|their|fall) resident (they|are|of) home that (his|their|fall) to (my|not|set|burn) tseyeng mananeo of the poverty eradication with seriousness

I can mostly work out where the nouns are, but when things aren't in the only dictionary I have it gets really difficult to work it out from context. I will probably try a tweet to see if anyone knows what they mean. Hopefully someone follows me who speaks Setswana.

[Whodathunkitz]

Any use - seeing the usage/examples of a word?

https://glosbe.com/tn/en/tseyeng

"Example sentences with "tseyeng", translation memory "

[zenmonkey]

Pronunciation guide: http://www.setswana.info/wiki/index.php ... nunciation
Course from setswana info: http://www.setswana.info/wiki/index.php?title=Course

[Brun Ugle]

The link to your Setswana Anki deck still doesn’t work.

[rdearman]

The link to your Setswana Anki deck still doesn’t work.

They deleted that one and I had to reload so it is in a different place. You'll have to search for it.

[rdearman]

Setswana:
I've managed to recruit a lot of people on to the Setswana bandwagon. Which has actually helped me a lot, since they are all now looking for resources and firing them over to me! I've received a couple of papers (which I need to get the links uploaded here) covering phonology and syntax. Activity on Setswana basically stopped for me last month because of my preparation for the gathering, but now I need to return to studying it. Having some pronunciation guides is useful, but it would be nice to have a IPA guide for the dictionary I use. I can't find another Setswana (Tswana) dictionary. I'm hoping someone will find one.

I've also decided to reload my LWT and use it on the newspaper articles and the tweets which I have. I'm hoping this will help me remember some vocabulary.

[rdearman]

A long time since I updated my Setswana log. I'm still persisting with the FLC for Setswana, and working with the study group. I have joined the 6WC for Setswana and it is forcing me to work a lot harder than I had been previously. Currently I'm doing the memrise courses for Setswana, my own Anki decks of the Peace Corp stuff, reading the bible and listening to Botswana radio stations.