The Copeland Ramblings/

New Class Tomorrow

This past Friday we completed our last session of phonetics, for us it was both challenging and a fun experience. It was so interesting to study how the human speech apparatus works and see the order that God put into language. Tomorrow we start grammar! If you haven’t noticed, we have section on our sidebar called ‘What We’re Currently Studying’, we keep it updated with the topics that we are going over in class. Here is the description of our grammar class:

The purpose for this course is for the students to become familiar with a basic set of grammatical forms and meanings that exist in languages worldwide and to the terminology that is used to describe them. This is done so that:

(a) They will be able to take better advantage of, and understand easier, the language learning helps that are available to them, such as written material and consultants.

(b) They will be able to use the more basic grammar points of the language as one of several “road maps” to plan and record their progress through the language learning experience.

(c) They will be able to overcome the problem of “language shock”- expecting a second language to act like the students native tongue.

(d) The students will have a tool that will speed up their language learning and provide help in a specific problem areas

(e) And finally, so that they will have a good understanding of the relationship between “form” and “meaning” as an aid in any type of translation work.

- During the Applied Language Learning segment of the course they will build several of their language learning activities around different areas of the grammar of the language they are learning.

This first month of the school year has gone so fast! October is upon us and the leaves are quickly changing colours. This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving, we’ll have a nice turkey dinner at mom and dads and go for our thanksgiving tradition of a fall hike. We take advantage of the Bruce Trail which goes by their place, we usually encounter some breathtaking views of the fall colors. Check out last years Thanksgiving post.

On this day..

• Nursery and lots of Friends and Family! - 2007
• Nachos & Cheese - 2005
• Another View - 2005