My Vocabulary

Today, we took the big quiz. Here is the vocabulary I needed to know for the dialog. There's a lot. I didn't remember most of it, but I was able to use the important, big words. Hopefully I did well!

εdeεn [eh-dee-ehn] = what
nimdeε [neem-dee-eh] = knowledge
nnwom = music
nnwomtofo⊃ [nn-wohm-toe-foe-ah] = musicians
nnwomto⊃ [nn-wohm-toe-ah] = singing
twerε = to write

Possessive Pronouns; Past Tense

This week has been a little slower. We have a big quiz tomorrow, so we have spent a lot of class time discussing it and the final week of class. Today, we discussed a few phrases, but mostly worked on our dialogs. I'm not going to put mine on here because it's pretty long and complicated. We're supposed to study it for the quiz tomorrow, but I can't remember all the different terms, so I'll have to simplify it. For today's post, I'm going to just share a few things we were supposed to study in the book over the weekend: possessive pronouns and the past tense.

Possessive Pronouns:
me = my
wo = your
ne = his / her
yεn = our
mo = your
w⊃⊃nom / ⊃⊃mo = their

S⊃ka

Great news: Ghana is moving on to the round of 16!!
Just thought I'd throw that in here...
The next game is against the USA- that's going to be hard to watch.

Terms of Time; Idiomatic Expressions; Serial Verbs

Today, we spent half the day practicing numbers 1-10. As difficult as they are to remember, it became a bit too redundant. We just need to practice on our own. Does anyone out there have a good suggestion for remembering the basic numbers and the tens?

The second half was focused on "expressions of time" and translating verb conjugations. Both of these aspects are crucial to basic conversation in Twi. Here are some of the most important terms for time:

an⊃pa [ana-pa] = morning
awia [ay-wee-ah] = noon / afternoon / sun
anwumerε [an-womay-reh] = evening
anadwo [ana-jwoh] = night
εnnora [ehn-norah] = yesterday
εnnε [ehn-neh] = today
⊃kyena [aw-chenah] = tomorrow
seesei [saay-say] = now
seesei ara = right now ("ara" puts emphasis on "seesei")
akyire yi [aw-chireh yee] = later ("yi" puts emphasis on "akyire")