Friday, July 24, 2015
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Solomon Grundy
Monday, May 18, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
still here
Hello, sorry about the big gap in posting there. I've been bitten by the spring cleaning bug, And while I have been doing my studies, I haven't been putting as much effort into finding good quotes or things to post, and most of the things I did find had diphthongs or blends.
But I started Chapter 5 this week, which means I can do diphthongs now!
key below:
But I started Chapter 5 this week, which means I can do diphthongs now!
key below:
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
be yourself
Thursday, March 19, 2015
catching up
I'm lagging a bit behind this month.
The last part of last week and the
beginning of this week were a bit crazy and I just didn't have the
time/energy to study as I should. So the remainder of this week will
be catching up with unit 9 and review will be pushed back to next
week.
Here is something I wrote up last week
but ran out of time to write it out neatly to scan and post:
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Arrrrrr!
(And it isn't even Talk Like a PirateDay)
Image via Daily Gregg
(warning this post uses a bit of IPA)
I just finished up Unit 8, where we are
introduced to the special "R" rules. Unit 8 is only
concerned with the "ur/ir/er/ar" sound in relation to the
beginning or ending of a straight stroke. For the rest of the
Anniversary's method of expressing "R" I'll need to wait
until Unit 20.
R is weird - In America, some people
say it is a vowel, but that isn't quite right. R is a bully,
specifically R doesn't like shwas (ə). To quote one of the phonics
books that I used to teach my son to read: when R comes after an I, E
or U it likes to squish it down so far that you can hardly hear it at
all - all you can hear is "er"(ɚ) (note: "ar"
is really "ɑ" plus "ɚ")
Like the graphic above states, this
special method (reversing the circle) is unique to Anniversary, In
simplified and later editions, they just write the R out. I don't
have the simplified manual, so I don't know exactly how the rule is
stated, and I'm not quite sure why they decided to change it. (Ok, I
actually do have an idea: This special rule is one more thing to
memorize, and [looking ahead to unit 20] it can probably be a bit
difficult to write smoothly without a lot of drilling practice. And
it may be a bit more difficult to read fluently.) But it is
definitely something to keep in mind when reading old found shorthand
notes, or when choosing a method to learn.
On a personal note I usually prefer the way the Anniversary reversed circle words look, but there are a handful of Simplified versions that I think look nicer. Maybe once I'm all done with Anniversary I'll get a Simplified manual and I'll blend the two versions for a more pleasing to my eye hybrid.
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There are exceptions when it would be
impossible or really hard to write quickly, like "air"
And since Gregg isn't really a wholly
phonetic system, sometimes the rules are bent a bit to to make other
words that don't quite fit that description easier/quicker to write.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
red apple
I started chapter 2 yesterday.
unit 4 adds "P" "B" "V" "F" "SH" "CH" & "J" and a bunch more brief forms to my vocabulary.
I feel kind of giddy, there are so many more things I can write now!
(although I will definitely need a lot more practice to get the new shapes down and memorize everything.)
key after the jump.
(As always, if you know Gregg and spot a mistake, please let me know.)
unit 4 adds "P" "B" "V" "F" "SH" "CH" & "J" and a bunch more brief forms to my vocabulary.
I feel kind of giddy, there are so many more things I can write now!
(although I will definitely need a lot more practice to get the new shapes down and memorize everything.)
key after the jump.
(As always, if you know Gregg and spot a mistake, please let me know.)
Thursday, January 22, 2015
grey cat
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Week One / Unit One
I finished up unit one today.
I spent a lot of time trying to draw the forms properly, especially ar/al and ac/ag. I can read pretty well, but the shapes don't stick in my head when it comes to writing. I'm painfully slow at writing, and have trouble remembering the letters and proper way to attach letters and vowels. I think I'll have to pay better attention to writing and form shapes in coming weeks.
Despite all this I'm still enjoying myself, It's only been a week and I'm still making a lot of progress. I've known for a while that I'm better at learning to read than to 'spell' so I knew this would probably be a problem, and the best way to counter it is to copy more and practice, practice, practice! I'm taking pictures and keeping my notes to compare as I go along so I can see how much progress I'm making.
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