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Re: Donation drive for audio component of the dictionary

Excellent idea. I'll make a contribution once I get my next paycheck. BTW, if you ever need an extra hand to write grant proposals, I'd love to help.

J
by jakemac
October 15th, 2014, 6:22 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: Donation drive for audio component of the dictionary
Replies: 97
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Donation drive for audio component of the dictionary

... be allocated exclusively to native speakers who will be recording the words and sentences. The audio format of the dictionary would also be an excellent learning resource that would help you learn Lakota. But more importantly, it would help the children and young people in Lakota country to ...
by admin
April 11th, 2013, 11:00 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: Donation drive for audio component of the dictionary
Replies: 97
Views: 7189553

Re: NLD-O back online (version 3.0)

Thank you for the updates on the NLD-O. The new features are excellent. Great. We are glad the forum members find them useful. Will we be able to double click words in the forum like we did before to see the word meanings? We are still working on the the ...
by admin
March 22nd, 2013, 12:01 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: NLD-O back online (version 3.0)
Replies: 43
Views: 1268123

Re: NLD-O back online (version 3.0)

Thank you for the updates on the NLD-O. The new features are excellent.

Will we be able to double click words in the forum like we did before to see the word meanings?

Thanks.
by NancyD
March 21st, 2013, 7:24 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: NLD-O back online (version 3.0)
Replies: 43
Views: 1268123

Re: NLD-O Feedback Needed

... to speak, and much later we begin to read and write. So in effect, without audio we’re trying to learn Lakota back-to-front. Listening to the excellent sound files in the Forum, KILI broadcasts, CDs, are ways that help us to tune our ears but those all take a great deal of time and concentration, ...
by Nina
September 10th, 2010, 7:11 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: NLD-O Feedback Needed
Replies: 16
Views: 209433

Re: NLD-O Feedback Needed

Mitákuyepi,

What else can I say, I also agree with Jana.
The NLD-O is an amazing tool, I like it very much!
I'm sure that adding sound files would make the excellent NLD-O even more amazing!

Marek
by Marek
September 10th, 2010, 4:22 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: NLD-O Feedback Needed
Replies: 16
Views: 209433

Re: NLD-O Feedback Needed

Jana brought up some very excellent suggestions that I too would like very much to see added to the O-NLD! :) Jana: What I would wish for the future? Sound files would be great. If sound files for all the example sentences where possible ...
by NancyD
September 9th, 2010, 3:21 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: NLD-O Feedback Needed
Replies: 16
Views: 209433

Re: REPUTATION

Appreciation Points or a variant of the feather award would be far more cordial. Jan, that's an excellent idea. Appreciation points does sound better and may not have the negative connotation as you pointed out. Thanks..Nancy Jan, this exactly reflects my thinking too. ...
by Gerda
December 3rd, 2009, 4:05 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: REPUTATION
Replies: 21
Views: 307131

Re: REPUTATION

Jan, that's an excellent idea. Appreciation points does sound better and may not have the negative connotation as you pointed out.
Thanks..Nancy
by NancyD
November 22nd, 2009, 10:29 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: REPUTATION
Replies: 21
Views: 307131

Local words and Standard Lakota Orthography

... and describe very confidently what happened in the story. This means that their reading fluency and reading comprehension skills in English were excellent. The same task was repeated with a Lakota text. It was a text written by a native speaker in the non-standardized spelling (sometimes referred ...
by admin
October 17th, 2009, 2:37 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: Local words and Standard Lakota Orthography
Replies: 0
Views: 47694

Re: System language

I think it would be an excellent idea to continue translating the system terminology into Lakota and eventually create a version entirely in Lakota. It will help Jan too because those terms can go into the NLD.

Thanks for all the great work!

Dave
by David E
September 23rd, 2009, 2:34 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: System language
Replies: 15
Views: 184305

Re: Changing the servers (this one is SLOW)

Excellent news! I had a very disconcerting experience this morning - I wonder if the same has happened to anybody else here? I had spent a long time composing a post in English & Lakota, using the enhanced keyboard to ...
by Wapasika
February 6th, 2009, 7:53 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: Changing the servers (this one is SLOW)
Replies: 2
Views: 43042

WÓPHILA uŋkéničiyape ló.

... too busy doing other things. We do hope to see you around Biagio. The forum would not have come to life without Konstantine Chmielnicky, whose excellent programming ideas and implementations have been invaluable for all our projects. Much of the great functionalities of the Virtual Keyboard ...
by admin
January 29th, 2009, 6:45 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: WÓPHILA uŋkéničiyape ló.
Replies: 0
Views: 37206

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