Projects for Tongan 1020

Thursday, April 28, 2011

School Related Verbs

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Stephen Colert is a fake news anchor who has written books, participated in marches on Washington, and has a huge college following. He's primarily a comedian, and secondly a tongue-in-cheek conservative commentator. He recently had a district representative from Utah who has the largest number of Tongans in her district. This is a clip from the joke-interview.

Final Project Conversation.

For the final project we were supposed to have a conversation. I chose a school setting for the conversation. Half of my project are the flash cards that I put on the website below. In regards to the other half, the conversation, I hope that I balanced taking risks and experimenting with the language with being grammatically correct. Malo 'aupito.

A: Mālō e lelei.

B: Io, mālō e lelei.

A: ‘Oku ke fēfē hake?

B: ‘Okú ou sai pē. ‘Okú ke fēfē hake?

A: ‘Okú ou sai pē. ‘Oku kamata fakakū ‘a e faka-Tonga kalasi?

B: ‘Oku kamata he haafe e ono.

A: Mālō. Na’a ke ako ki he kalasi?

B: ‘Io, ‘Oku ou osi ako. ‘Oku ikai me’a faingata’a ia. Na’a ke ako ki he kalasi?

A: ‘Ikai na’e 'ikai ke u ku ako ki he kalasi.

B: Ko e ha me’a kuo pau ke mou ako?

A: ‘Osi lau tohi a ‘e lēsoni ua nima ‘i he tohi Shumway.