[Course Forum] Klingon courses by pastorNathan (Grammar basics (course 93771) & Complete Vocabulary(course 93214))

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I browsed through the first 3 of 9 levels and found several errors.
Some are case-related … JIH is listed as “I, me”, but there is no upper case J in Klingon, this should be jIH.
Some are poor or wrong definitions … soH is listed as you(plural) - it should be SoH (wrong case) and defined as you(singular).
The verb pronouns I saw were not defined properly … Sa- is listed as “I”, but it is really “I” with an object of “you (plural)”. ju- is listed as “you (singular)”, but it is really “you (singular)” with an object of “us”.
These are just a few of the many errors I found with this course.

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Would you please add a link to that course also in your first post. So anyone could check on it

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Certainly. https://www.memrise.com/course/93771/basics-of-klingon-grammar/

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Just so you understand - there is no official Klingon course on Memrise. Only user-created courses.

Memrise may be willing to add you as a contributor to the course, which would allow you to make corrections. OR, you might just make a better course yourself. But nobody on here, and no Memrise staff, will directly address the errors you have mentioned.

@Lien - is this an actively maintained course? The course creator stopped making mems 4 years ago…

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I understand. I had hoped that the creator might be active and see this note. We have a very active Klingon community and we monitor resources for quality, so learners don’t head down a wrong path in their studies. If this user is not currently active, and Memrise would not be willing to add me as contributor, then can the course be de-activated?

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Hi @lurajane and @gheyIl

I have emailed pastorNathan to invite him to this thread, hopefully he can join us here soon.
If we don’t hear from him in the next week or so, please remind me so I can add @gheyIl as a contributor to the course.

All the best,

Lien

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@Lien and @gheyIl - Did this happen?

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I have heard nothing.

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Well, Lien said “please remind me”, so I suppose this is the reminder @Lien to add go ahead and add gheyll as a contributor so he can fix/maintain the course.

Memrise first emails the original course creator, and waits for a reply, before adding contributors to a course.

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Thanks for reminding me.
@gheyIl is now a contributor for Basics of Klingon Grammar

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Thsnk you. I will do my best to maintain the Memrise standards. :slight_smile:

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batlh yIghojmoH!

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Course: The Complete Klingon Vocabulary course by @pastorNathan

This course has an error in level 4, presumably from imperfect copying of the entries from the Klingon Dictionary.

The entry “buS - concentrate on, focus on, think only about (v)” has been split into two entries, so entry for buS ends after the word “think” and there’s a “ghost word” entry “only - about (v)”.

Is there a way to contact the course creator about this?

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Noticed another mistake, in level 8: the entries “chorghDIch - eighth” and “choS - desert” have been fused into a single entry.

This goes to Complete Vocabulary

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At this point, I am only looking at cleaning up the Klingon Grammar course. Apparently I was given control of ALL of PastorNathan’s courses, which includes the Vocabulary as well. Since there are other better vocab courses, I didn’t look at this, but I will see about cleaning up the specific items which you point out - buS, chorghDIch, and choS.

Thank you for pointing this out to me.

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I checked, and I am not listed as an editor of the Klingon Vocabulary course, so I am unable to correct the errors which you found.

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