Tele-teaching course for Proto-Drem - Lesson 1

 

 

XXX - First Exercise

 

Test your knowledge:

 

These are either true or false…

 

1. fe- is used for medicines, while mí- is not

 

2. Proto-Drem uses only 1 article for ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’.

 

3. A consonant followed by an apostrophe, such as b’ means that the consonant is an implosive.

 

4. Negatives generally go at the start on the sentence, while questions go at the end.

 

5. Nà Uholumbé? Would mean “Where aren’t you going?”

 

6. a- is for skills/occupations, while abo- is to show ‘association with’.

 

7. The general ‘word order in Proto-Drem is SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT

 

8. b’ágbabu could mean ‘juice’.

 

9. To show who owns something, Proto-Drem uses possessive pronouns. These are found to the left of the noun.

 

10. The ŋk sound is a nasal ‘ng’ blending into the same sound as the ‘k’ in key.

 

 

 

Self exercises:

 

Write some simple sentences using negatives and questions using the words in this lesson.

 

Practice the sounds, especially the implosives. For most, the sounds will be new and with practice will generally become easy to pronounce.       

 

See if you can write a few small sentences using a combination of negatives, questions, a/abo and pronouns to get a feel of where certain things go in a sentence.

 

 

Compare your answers

 

Are you ready to see how you’ve done? If you think you’ve done well, click on the link and see how you did. If you feel you didn’t do too well, redo the exercise and try again.