Hey, I'm basically in the process of making a textbook for Faroese for English speakers. If anyone wants to help out (especially if someone fluent in spoken Faroese is willing to record audio!!) that would be great. The main problem I have right now is just organizing what I've already translated/typed up into a good order for learning, and figuring out which vocabulary to teach.
Unrelated but I have also made a 700-word/phrase Memrise vocab list for Faroese: http://www.memrise.com/course/edit/8267 ... /#l_635183
and a 200-word one here for Faroese-Swedish: http://www.memrise.com/course/82931/200 ... ka-matord/
I have some questions for you as learners:
- What sort of things do you love and hate in textbooks? (topics, formats, etc.)
- What do you find most important in Faroese (therefore that I should teach first)? In terms of both grammar and vocabulary.
- What do you find least important?
- What do you find easiest and most difficult to learn?
- Is grammar worksheet / workbook practise necessary, or would you do that on your own? Do you even find it helpful? This basically means "does captainporridge have to make a grammar workbook alongside the textbook or not".
Okay, so far I've been told to teach:
- Time words, as in "Sorry I was LATE to class" and "I'll do it TOMORROW"
- How to say to travel by vehicle or on foot or by bus etc.
- All the various forms of "I don't speak much Faroese" should be taught very early on.
I was planning from the beginning to break down "real" sentences picked from books and online etc. to show grammar break-downs, and I had been toying with the idea of making a series of what's essentially parallel texts with grammar notes for a "second" option of learning written Faroese. The problem there would be finding something that is out of copyright or being able to get the rights in order to re-publish the text as a text for learners, but I might be able to ask around here in Sweden and see if anyone knows if it would be very difficult to get.