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Fijian Aunts Don’T Ha[?]
THE Fijian Grammar, which is result of the visit of Mr. G Milner to Fiji a couple of y€ ago, is finished and will soon published.
Mr. Milner is on the staff of London School of African s Oriental Studies, and in a rec BBC broadcast told something the difficulties entailed in prod ing the 21 lessons and other it* that the Grammar contains.
He has departed from the us methods of teaching a languag Fijian is so different from, s French or German, that it can be taught by the same methi The grammatical framework t he has used is 100 per cent. Fij and he has avoided such time-w sentences as “The pen of my a is on the table.”
In the first place, says Mr. Mill it is important to know whet the aunt, in question, if she i Fijian aunt, is your mother’s your father’s sister because cannot speak to them both in same way. Then she prob£ doesn’t own a pen, in any case In his broadcast, Mr. Mil thanked Ratu Sir Lala Suku Mr. Howard Hayden (Fiji Dire< of Education) and Mr. King: Roth for their assistance.