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 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:00 pm
"But they don't talk..." mutters the boy under his breath. "How can they make sounds?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:04 pm
*Kero nods*
You're right...they're symbols....they represent sounds....just like words represent things.
It's like this....Fish are animals, right? But the word "fish" doesn't turn into a fish when we speak it. The letters are the same way...they're a way of making sound visible, and putting it on paper...each letter for a different sound...make sense?
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:09 pm
"Show me fish..." says Passura softly.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:12 pm
*Kero traces F-I-S-H into the sand*
See....it looks like this..."Fuh-Ih-Shuh"...
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:15 pm
"Fu-i-shhhhh" says Passura slowly, then he shakes his head. He points to the F and asks "what sound?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:21 pm
Then he points to the I and then the S and finally the H, asking the same question.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:23 pm
*Kero nods*
I is a tricky letter...it can make two sounds...."Ih" and "Eye"....
S makes the "Ssss" sound...but it can mix with other letters to make other sounds as well.
H makes the "huh" sound...but mixes with S here to make the "Shuh" sound.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:27 pm
OK, now he's thoroughly confused, but he's beginning to get a glimmer of an idea as to how it works. Might be better if he gets a few beginning baby primers. So he can learn the letters and sounds without trying to make then into words just yet. He's still rather young you know.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:28 pm
*Kero nods, and replaces his primers for reading with baby primers*
Here...these will teach you the letters and their sounds...come to me when you've got it, okay?
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:37 pm
Lyssan comes to him later and scolds him soundly for just dumping such a monumental task on the boy. "Children learn to ready by being read to, Kerobian. They learn the sounds by hearing them repeatedly. Passura comes form a non-written language culture. They keep their histories in sotry forms which are handed down from father and mother to child. The wiseman may have been the only one of their people who even understood those marks meant something. What you did to him was paramount to throwing him into a deep ocean with only a tiny life preserver. How can he learn when the names of those pictures may not be the same to you or him?"
She looks out to where Passura is sitting under a tree struggling to make out what the books are saying.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:41 pm
*Kero nods again*
Very well...now buzz off...I'll read to him, but not with a kitsune audience.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:46 pm
"But I love to be read to..." laughs the fox knowingly. She dodges a mock swing and goes off into the forest, circling back to watch from a safe distance, high in a tree so Kero cannot see her.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:48 pm
*She gets a mental poke in the rear*
Move along now, nothing to see here...
*Kero pulls out the book he brought, asking Passura if he wants him to read to him*
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