On Monday 22 September 2008 15:20:39 Brett Williams wrote: > So that's my main advice to gismu learners: Sure it's intimidating to learn > a five-place gismu, or even a three-place gismu, but you're not really > expected to learn all the places of all the gismu at once, you know? If > you're learning "klama", don't worry about memorizing the 3rd 4th 5th > places, start by being comfortable with "x1 goes to destination x2" and > work your way up from there.
You could also make up sayings in which the extra places are used. For instance "do klama le tamji le degji le cidni" means "you go to the thumb from the fingers by way of the elbow"; the English idiom is "you go 'round your elbow to get to your thumb". Pierre
