It has been getting more and more complex and I find that this knowledge has helped me in constructing sentences but it actually has been harder to decipher when translating sentences to English because I over think the conjugations and am trying to process it all at the same time. The hardest concept I want to highlight was the use of case. I realized that with this skill I am able to more correctly translate actions in a poem or story. Because the object and subject can be in different orders when used poetically it is important to use this indicator to see which is doing the action and which is being acted on. The whole deeper meaning can be misconstrued if you don’t keep that in mind.
This week’s homework is to conjugate the leading verbs in the 8 categories of verbs in the tenses that we have learned already. As I stated last time, verbs falling under the same category share similar patterns like pronunciation and conjugations. However each category has a slightly different way of conjugating in the 4 different forms that we have covered. It could be as slight as a shift from “e” to “ie”. I definitely need to practice more on this area in order to get it down.
I am looking forward to the final project in this class. I am thinking to do it on the Axumite empire. This topic is going to be really interesting to learn about, because I hear about it a lot but I have never read up on it as much as I’d like. I want to look into sources that I wouldn’t typically use on a presentation. I know there are a lot of sources that aren’t known and are more of a blog style or even those in different languages that are typically not appropriate for a class project. But for this topic I think I need to use resources that are outside of the box in order to cover the topic because there aren’t a lot of sources that cover the stories that make this one whole. Like I spoke about previously, some academic sources say things like “the story is unknown” but especially from native sources these gaps can be filled. If not for the presentation, I think the information I gather will really inform me as an individual and aid my own understanding of the ancient Ge’ez culture
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