| Kommentar | Like manni, I'm wondering if it's really a smart idea to withhold extremely basic strong verbs from them, especially the ones that are already cognates with English anyway (sah, kam, maybe even fiel).
My strong inclination would be NOT to bend over backwards to substitute some obscure verb like 'erblickte,' which they (a) have little need to learn, and (b) would have to look up to have any remote idea what it means. 'Rannte' instead of 'lief' is at least closer to English -- but 'laufen' is such an extremely basic verb that they're going to need to learn it quite early, so why not now?
I'm just not sure I'm convinced by the pedagogical approach of artificially withholding strong verbs and using only weak ones. It might be nice if it were convenient, but if you have to choose between that and a real example with natural language (or an edited approximation thereof), I would lean toward the latter, and add some glosses in the margin. ('Warf,' for example, is not cognate with anything I can think of, but 'werfen' is an awfully useful verb, and they could practice it by aiming at the trash basket, and talking about litters of puppies, and moles ...)
Or alternatively, if you have a list of basic past tense verbs you want them to learn, write a pseudo fairy tale that includes them all, and make it funny. (-: |
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