Lakota Lesson 4: The Silent Way

This is the next lesson in learning to speak Lakota using the Silent Way approach. Make sure to do as much talking as you can during the lesson. Turn off the sound and talk a lot yourself. This isn't school!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Lakota Language
• Dakota
• language
• nests
• rakau
• cuisenaire
• rods
• silent
• way

[InfiniteMushroom]

Bernaise cha zi na cha sah icu = That is your yellow stick and red stick?

[girma1jo]

Try to choose the most obvious or most common possibility. In these lessons, the language will be tied to something you can see. Often this will be the simple action itself, not a supposition or assumption you might make.

[InfiniteMushroom]

Bernaise chan zi icu = That is your yellow stick?

Jim chan sha icu = This is my red stick?

[girma1jo]

Check the reply to the comment above.

[girma1jo]

@InfiniteMushroom

Then too the dialogue could be a simple description of what you see. That is, the speakers are talking to you.

[thenatureofJade]

This is awesome.

[keplerts]

This makes so much sense! When will there be more lessons? Or a web site or other learning tools. Great job!

[angelseatupward]

@InfiniteMushroom bernice is his friend and hes asking her to take either the red or yellow object or both...cha ze na cha sha etchu....take the red and yellow...

[sababa20]

Bernice čháŋ zí ičú = Bernice takes yellow stick.

Jim čháŋ šá ičú = Jim takes red stick.

[tenawa1]

easy when it is done this way thanks