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Interslavic Noun(and case) Declension Practice(and learning) tool!
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"Learn page" doesn't teach cases in NAGLDIV order #54

Closed amsuu closed 1 month ago

amsuu commented 2 months ago

Description Usually, in the teaching materials of Interslavic, (e.g. slovnik) the cases are given in the following order by default: Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Locative, Dative, Instrumental, Vocative. (aka NAGLDIV). This is done for ease of grouping (Loc and Dat are almost always the same; so are Gen/Loc plural in adjectives and Dat/Ins plural are similar too, in singular adjectives the similarity is between Loc/Dat and for feminine - Gen/Loc/Dat. These are all next to eachother in the NAGLDIV model, making it easier for learners to group in their minds).

Proposed solution The learn page is currently in order NADGLIV. This choice was made due to the similarity of Accusative and Dative, as well as my background in Bulgarian and German. Where genitive is taught last (before accusative and dative). This could be fixed in my opinion, if we value the grammatical grouping properties (as well as some ease of learning - accusation, posession, and location are all fairly easy concepts to wrap your head around -- and those are taught first) of NAGLDIV as more important than the properties of related concepts being taught sequentially (N/A/D). The example in the "Learn" page with the N/A/D sentence shown below (If we chose the former ordering -- NAGLDIV) can just be moved down to the Dative section (after Gen and Loc) with a pretext of something like "remember Nom and Acc? Well there's another level to it" or something like that.

image (Also I should really use "-l"-participle past tense instead of "-h" aorist)