24 hours; Language Data Collection!

Hi, there! I'm excited we are alive to witness this new week, beginning today as Monday.

Today being Monday is always couple with multiple tasks to accomplish. You know, as fresh, there are things you need to start up in other to follow another day's procession.

This afternoon I delved into hivelearners discord to check out for contest for this week and I stumbled on this featured topic contest.

It is my happiness to share with you the thing I did in the last 24 hours of my time, denying myself of pleasure and having fun with my friends on social media.

This one thing is, “my school research work”. I have to understand that, research is not a one-person work, it is a collective responsibility and knowledge, and it is not achieved in one day. It has 5 chapters with plenty of pages, it could be 50 pages depending on how corpus your work is.

After writing my chapter 1, 2 and 3. You know, chapter 4 is the main thing, so for me to get my chapter right, I need to get language data through my correspond. Thank God, he complied to my fullest. I did a phone call and I recorded his voice while I was asking him, single words translation, total translation and full translation, “sentence to sentence”, and “word to word”.

However, language Data collection took my 24 hours of my time. Calling my correspondent morning, afternoon, and at night, can you imagine me disturbing someone's husband? This man gave it to me, and I was blessed and excited. My happiness was attached to his responses towards my calling.

Through this research, I have to learn new words and structure of sentences added to the existing ones in my brain.
I learned the guidelines for seminar and project, it was so profound.

In my Data collection, I did a descriptive method, whereby I asked questions about the language. This is the language, “Nkari language”, it is in Ini local government in Akwa Ibom State sharing boundary with Itum Mbonuso, having a similar dialect and different from Ini people's. Their pronunciation and accent is always funny to me. There are words that are different from ours, like;

Data Analysis:

English. Ibibio Nkari

1. Woman. Owowaan. Ibani
2. Man. Owodeen. Ideni

These are the differences, there are more to talk about but to share few. This is the kind of Data collection I did in my 24 hours.

Reasons for doing this!

Without me obtaining this data, my chapter 4 won't be well-structured or analyzed for my test or for my supervisor's test. My work might be rejected or cancelled for not doing the appropriate work, or I will not deserve a rewarding mark. By my language data, my research will be presentable and accurately approved.

And without disciplining myself to sit back and get this data, it would be difficult if I am rushing, so it is better I put things in place, so I can comprehend it and also make it comprehensive and presentable.

I asked questions and I even got tired and giving up sef. My correspondent was tired too, and I had to give him a break before calling back.

This is the one thing I did in the last 24 hours.

This post is in response to hivelearners contest week 84 edition 1.

Thank you for reading through.

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I remain @peckypeace.