LibreLingo-twi-from-english

LibreLingo Twi course for English speakers

Initially proposed course structure

• Twi-from-english [course]
  • basics [module]
    • animals1 (teach open o and open e) [skill]
    • animals2 (teach diagraphs hy, hw, ky, tw, etc
    • pronouns: me, wo, ono, ɛho, yen, mo, wono
    • basic nouns: efie, edan
  • introduction
    • greetings
    • mepa wo kyew, akwaaba, medaase, ete sen, aane, daabi
    • basic questions
    • me din de, me te, madi mfe, me firi
  • family
  • directions (left right, turn, there, here, activity and locations)
  • market (fruits, veggies, meat, seasonings)
  • time week days + adverbs today, now later (when)
  • cooking
  • home (items and rooms)
  • hobbies
  • watch + numbers
  • body parts and movements (head sholders knees and toes)
  • personal hygiene
  • colors
  • names
  • religion: nyame, onyankopon, awuradee,
  • nsem den: kwasia, gyimini
  • proverbs

Each module should have:

• a theme
• a grammar focus
• some new words (easily visually representable)
• new verbs
• sentences and dialogue excerpts

Grammar to be included into modules and skills:

• yɛ vs wɔ
• ne vs na
• negation
• tenses fut, pres. cont., past, perfect
• plural
• negations
• prepositions
• questions (sentence order)
• conjunctions
• possesive pronouns
• articles (no, bi, wei, yi)
• personal pronouns (obi, obiara, obiara en)
• numbers
• cardinal numbers

Words to include:

verbs: ko, ba, firi, nante, dane, dwene, twere, kenkan, kan, kyere, hwoma, kasa, ka, te, te ase, to dwom, di, didi, nua, nom
adjectives: foforo, fefeefe, kesie, dendeende adverbs: nso, seisei, sesiara, dabiara, okyena, enora, nawotwe

Useful LiLi links

https://github.com/RGBradley/LibreLingo-EU-from-EN
kantord/LibreLingo#2187
https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo/blob/main/docs/courses/editing-courses.md
https://github.com/pur80a/LibreLingo

Usful links:

• about twi, me amd this course
  • https://www.ghana.gov.gh/mdas/bfc72f13cc/
  • https://www.bg-l.site
• further learning resources:
  • https://learnakan.com
  • https://www.kasahorow.org/node/210
  • google translate
  • khaya translate by Ghana NLP
  • Masakhane, a community around African languages and NLP
  • Anki flashcard decks: conversation, phrases around the house, market and greetings (not hosted on ankiweb.net anymore)
  • twi courses with syllabus
  • bible in asante twi (Baoulé and fanti are also available)
  • open.bible asante
  • Qur'an in twi and arab
  • twi dictionary in tabular form
  • iOS keyboard for Twi, Fante, Ewe and Ga
  • macOS keyboard layout
  • Universal declaration of Human Rights in Twi
  • Jehowa's Witnes's website in Twi

ToDos:

• how to help with this course
• process
• pair themes with grammar focus points
• add this course to the official lili dev courses
• add macos docs to official lili docs

Set up of developement environment on macos with homebrew

goes to https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo/blob/main/docs/index.md

brew update 
brew upgrade 
brew install nvm node poetry yarn 
mkdir ~/.nvm
# into ~/.zshrc
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion
#
nvm install 14
reopen shell
git clone git clone git@github.com:LibreLingo/LibreLingo.git LibreLingo.git
cd LibreLingo.git
yarn install 
yarn web dev 
#mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin 
#export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
#ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 $HOME/.local/bin/python
yarn web run installAllExternalCourses
#PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/apps/librelingo_types yarn exportAllCourses
python -m venv ../llvenv
source ../llvenv/bin/activate
#######################
pip install regex uni-slugify editdistance click bleach html2markdown markdown yaml8
PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/apps/librelingo_types:$PWD/apps/librelingo_utils:$PWD/apps/librelingo_yaml_loader yarn exportAllCourses
#######################
poetry install
cd apps/librelingo_yaml_loader
poetry install
cd ../../apps/librelingo_json_export
poetry install
cd ../..
#optional
pip install yaml8
yarn exportAllCourses
yarn web dev 

feedback

• more sentences
• early cool sentences : affirmations, quotations, proverbs
• funny things, memes
• useful things for day to day usage
• pronomes & affirmations
• food and recipes
• body umd movements
• your eyes are big
• affirmation = pronouns + adjectives
• affirmations, then one feels better
• numbers + fruits
• colors
• dry and juicy skills alernately
• if no picture fits, choose a single pic as memory anchor