Our Nuwaupuyee for the week - Jan 2013

Raahub yasar!!!

Thanks to recommendations from the Nuwaupian family, I've upgraded our nuwaupuyee poster so it only has the words we're learning in our script.

It's an exciting and slightly nerve wracking step as I'm not great with languages, but the Paa Taraq have given me sufficient motivation to commit to speaking and studying it daily with the children.

4 days a week, we begin Mir with dance and stretching then Nuwaupuyee which has been working well for us..

I want to say a big TAWUHAAT to the teachers of the classes on http://nuwaupic.com/ , you're all doing a really good job and I appreciate you all very much.

Also tawuhaat to the family helping out on the facebook Nuwaupic study group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/nuwaupic/ 

The words we're studying this week are from the Zaman wu Garah (Day and Night) video on Nuwaup.com found here, which are

Today - Panan Zaman
Tomorrow - Ghadad
Yesterday - Barah
Before - Baa'ad
After - Qabal
Next - Tayal
Later - Fwatur
We can - Enen Qadur
Good night - Wawad Garah  


Hatap yasar
Mut Bastat En Rayay


Paa Munzal Nathur Amun Nabab Rayay Akh Ptah Djedtwy - Hu Kawan Harar!!!

Our Nuwaupuyee of the week poster

Raahub Yasar,

To make learning new nuwaupuyee (our language) easier, the kharadu (children) and I made this little poster.

It's 4 pieces of black craft/sugar paper stuck together then decorated with ankhs. The words of the week are stuck on with tape that we carefully remove and replace with new words or sentences each week.

If you are teaching your kharadu or yourself, you may find it helpful to have something like this up so that you can see it very regularly. We have ours up in our living room, which is also the dining room and mir (school) room too, so we see it all the time. I aim to practice the words with them daily, just by getting them to look at them and we'll all say them out loud in Nuwaupuyee and english.

This picture is of last week's words, this week (commencing Mon 16th Oct 2012) our words are

Yakax - take
Safaf - see
Sawaf - look
radad - give
and the sentence - Panan zamam enen eahaw aalam nahaw... - today we will learn about ... ( I can use this every day during our mir studies several times and even get them to say it to me and let them teach me something :-)

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Mut Bast.tet En Re
(Leah Salmon)

Our Nuwaupuyee for the week

Raahub yasar,

The recent update that was delivered to us last week called Nimrod (at http://wu-nuwaup.com/outformation-class/nimrod/) from Mursal.tat Nysut.tat: Nerua Nafur.tat Atum-Rayay wu Mursal Nysut: Ptah Khaf Rayay Hepet Atum Rayay (Nerua's dress was lovely by the way), focused on the importance of our language Nuwaupuyee (formerly known as Nuwaupic). - The video of the update is at the bottom of this post.

If you didn't already know, there is a whole website now with Nuwaupuyee lessons on it at http://nuwaupic.com/

We aim to speak as much nuwaupuyee as we can, but this update really did give us a wake up call as to just how important it is, so we're going to learn a few words and phrases a week ans build from there.

So last week we learnt these words:

Nawam - Sleep
Jabab - Bring
Please - Ealal
No - Nual
What - Sanas
Here - Hunanu
That - Pafaf
What is that? Sanas kawan pafaf?
What colour is that? Sanas lawun kawan pafaf?

I'm going to spend another week on these then move onto 5 new words and 2 sentences a week from next week.

We went on a family walk which lasted about an hour in total,during the walk we went through the words then did lots of practice. As we walked I'd ask them "sanas kawan pafaf? and point at different things, or I'd ask "sanas lawun kawan pafaf? and they know most of the colours in nuwaupuyee so they could answer in nuwaupyee too, which allowed us to have a little nuwaupuyee conversation as we walked.

Homeschooling and learning can happen everywhere you go :-)

Hatep yasar

Mut