<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Again, thank you Ken for your kind remarks.<div><br></div><div>I think that this praise can be accepted equally by all those who worked on the book.</div><div><br></div><div>Myself, Nigel Roberts who put a lot of work in on the illustrations and Michael and Nicholas for proof reading and Michael for type setting. I am very proud to be able to say that all those who worked on it are members of Agan Tavas, this shows the broad depth of talent that we have within the society.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 18 Gwn 2009, at 12:03, Ken MacKinnon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>A gowetha wheg,<br><br>I have just received the copies of Skeul an Tavas which I ordered earlier this week. I have already had the opportunity to skim read and to study one or two points in a little more depth. I must say at the outset that all concerned are to be very warmly congratulated on the publication and production standards. These are attractive and well designed. I find the illustrations most helpful, and indeed they most obviously show considerable thought and purpose from a teaching and learning perpective. These books will be of enormous benefit to Cornish learners, and richly deserve a good sale. I am sure that they will play a part in increasing the take-up and success amongst potential learners. This is a real breakthrough and step forward..<br><br>I must say that reading Cornish in practice brings home to me the virtues of the Kernowak Standard system - especially for the vowels. This all begins to make systematic sense. The use of traditional graphs is much to be commended for those of us who have been habituated to the traditional and early revived forms of Cornish - as well as Cornish as it appears on Ordnance Survey maps.<br><br>These productions have given me a real incentive to get on with the business of effectively acquiring the language. The various competing forms have to date been a real deterrent, and most especially from the point of view of pronunciation. This has been a real off-putter (indeed one of the causes of failure in Grade Four oral exam.) Following the sectiuons on pronunciation, as so clearly and systematically outlined in these guides, will be a very real help. I could only wish that this course might be followed up with a pronunciation CD. (I have not found other previous efforts of such to have been of much help.)<br><br>I have also just received the annual report of the Kesva. I note their forward policies re examinations. In the Kesva exams I very much trust that marks will not be deducted for use of traditional graphs in the SWF option - nor to be fair all round for residual spelling effects from candidates who have so far used previous varieties of the language - in my case Unified. It might be good to get some re-assurance on this. The present state of the game is after all very much a transitional period, and this should be fully recognised and not prescriptively penalised. It may be time for other modes of examination to be recognised or developed. I am not at all sure what the Language Ladder scheme itself involves in this regard.<br><br>Incidentally, one small point of criticism in this respect, the Foreword speaks of the 'UK Department for Children, Schools and Families'. I do not think that this department has any remit in the devolved jurisdictions of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. If I am correct it is an England-only department. You might have just about got away with; 'the Department for Children, Schools and Families under the UK Government' or 'the government's Department for Children,Schools and Families', (which is probably what was intended, and what it actually is in our present dog's dinner of a constitution.)<br><br>Anyway, very hearty congratulations to all concerned on this initiative. It will bear much fruit.<br><br>Keslowena colonnek dheugh-why oll - an Ken ken<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br></font></font></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Gans oll an gwella,</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Ray Chubb</div><div><br></div><div>Portreth</div><div>Kernow</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>