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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 6, 2022, at 11:25 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">This is mostly of interest to people who are <i class="">not</i> on this
list, but I wanted to make it known here anyway.</p><p class="">In May I'll be teaching a course of basic Klingon grammar for
Signum University, an online university with an adult continuing
education program. It's a four-week course, meeting on Zoom twice
a week, one hour per session, that will basically go over all the
grammar in the second edition of <i class="">The Klingon Dictionary,</i>
with the occasional foray into later-learned grammar. I've tried
to arrange the course in a more friendly-to-learn way than TKD,
though with only eight sessions there are still times when I have
to cram a whole bunch of suffixes into one session. I won't try to
teach a huge amount of vocabulary — I'm not any good at the big
piles of words we've gotten over the last few years — but the
course will be taught to enable a student armed with a word-list
or lookup app to put sentences together grammatically.<br class="">
</p><p class="">This is not a free course. As part of Signum's SPACE program, it
costs $150 for a single token to take a single course, with
discounts for buying multiple tokens. (And I'm not expecting to
get paid for doing this.) The sessions are not recorded.<br class="">
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If it does well, there might be a "Klingon 2" course later, wherein
I teach all the slang and idioms and colors and proverbs and
familial terms and so on, and there might even be a course where we
all read the Klingon Hamlet or some other book. (Hamlet would be
great for the established connection between Klingon and
Shakespeare, but a book with up to date grammar might be better.)
<p class="">I listen to the podcasts of Corey Olsen, known as "the Tolkien
Professor" and founder of Signum University, and in one podcast,
while he was talking about new courses in his university's adult
continuing education program, a live listener asked if they'd be
offering Klingon. He said they didn't have any plans for it, but
it would be a great thing to do. So I wrote to him and offered to
teach a course. He was excited and connected me with the director
of the program. It was a candidate course in March, and enough
people signed up for it to confirm it as a May module. So that's
how this came to be.</p><p class="">The course page:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/47/">https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/47/</a></p><p class="">The SPACE program: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://signumuniversity.org/space/">https://signumuniversity.org/space/</a><br class="">
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