Teaching Klingon blog/pod cast

[qurgh_]

I found this the other day:

http://blog.myspace.com/qurgh

I was posting audio lessons online that teach Klingon.

[Abbot Nej vIt]

Most excellent find... And this goes a long way towards supporting my ongoing argument that MySpace IS in fact quite useful...

maj! {Good}...

[Klythe]

   *chuckles*  Though I immagine it wasn't too hard for Soy to find.   

[Kesvirit]

It would be most unfortunate for him if it were, to lose all that work....

-=- Kesvirit

[qelSo]

The available lessons are quite good and helpful for a newb like myself.  Are there any more like this?

[Kesvirit]

Welcome to the Forums, qelSo!

I have been asked this question many times and have only found one example. If the one is a devout Christian, I recommend mu''a'vo' mu' - A Klingon Word from the Word by Joel Anderson/Mr.Klingon. It features both blog and podcasts.

(If the one is still awakened during the night by flashbacks to parochial school, well, try to think of it as an exercise in applied anthropology or psycholinguistics. Either way, there is good material there with real-life implications.)

If you find others, add them to the thread. Such tools are helpful with learning and all too rare.

-=- Kesvirit

[qelSo]

^ Thanks for  the link.  That one seems to be geared more toward the scripture than teaching tlhIngan Hol... but it is helpful to hear so many words spoken aloud.

[Qunchuy]

If the one is a devout Christian, I recommend mu''a'vo' mu' - A Klingon Word from the Word by Joel Anderson/Mr.Klingon.

If, on the other hand, one is interested in learning anything useful about the Klingon language, I recommend that you stay well away from it. The "Klingon translation" of Bible verses is a cheap word-for-word replacement using a highly twisted dictionary. The pronunciation is okay as such things go -- better than is sometimes heard on Star Trek -- but it's apparent from the pure English sounds of some of the words that Mr. Anderson is not a linguist. I wouldn't consider it a good model to emulate.

[tesseraktik]

If the one is a devout Christian, I recommend mu''a'vo' mu' - A Klingon Word from the Word by Joel Anderson/Mr.Klingon.

If, on the other hand, one is interested in learning anything useful about the Klingon language, I recommend that you stay well away from it. The "Klingon translation" of Bible verses is a cheap word-for-word replacement using a highly twisted dictionary. The pronunciation is okay as such things go -- better than is sometimes heard on Star Trek -- but it's apparent from the pure English sounds of some of the words that Mr. Anderson is not a linguist. I wouldn't consider it a good model to emulate.

Indeed, he admits to this:

The UTA project uses a pretty simpleminded translation process - eventually I do intend to use the work I've done on the Universal Translator Assistant tool for doing translations. However, the UTA tool in its current form is more for demonstration than translations. It is useful for for entertainment value, not linguistic purity. The translations it generates resemble a pidgin Klingon; a Klingon vocabulary mixed with English grammar. It would not be surprising (if there REALLY were Klingons) for such a dialect to exist in an environment where there was lively human-Klingon commerce.

Before I saw that, I was quite surprised by the claim that "the days that are scattered all about and are capable of language are the location", among other things