Lakota Lesson7: The Silent Way

Getting into a little more action vocabulary. You can speak in complete sentences now. To keep learning, ask yourself as you view the video-- Is the person in the video talking about what he or she did or something that someone else did? It matters, you know. Then turn off the sound and take the place of the speakers in the video. It's your voice that counts, not a collection of Lakota words in your head.

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Education

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• Lakota lessons
• the Silent Way
• language learning
• language teaching
• rakau

[polakandrew]

MAKE MORE PLEASE!

[girma1jo]

Okay, two more lessons just went up. A variation off the previous ones....but part of the same approach and inching closer to the same goal.

[InfiniteMushroom]

Can sha iwacu = Red stick, I take(?)

Can sapa na can zi, iwacu = Black stick and yellow stick, I take(?)

Ah hah! Ewagnake is the correct spelling! It still seems to mean, to put back.

Thank you for these videos! I hope more will be coming soon.

[girma1jo]

Thanks for the comment. I'd like to do more videos soon. For now, I understand the pull to translate, but trust your language ability -- and our design ability -- and don't do them.

Main point: without translations you are figuring out all kinds of things. The design of future videos will, as when learning our first language, give a chance to keep checking and refining your growing understanding of the words. I don't want to take away that experience.

[cicciobau]

these lessons are really awesome, I hope you are gonna upload some more in future, I would love to learn some more Lakota,

regards from europe.

[rmierzwiak]

interesting way to learn

pronunciation of these words is somewhat similar to my language :)

easier for me to pronounce than English words

[tenawa1]

I will keep doing then till I can do it in my sleep.Thanks

[Qila216]

Thank you so much for these videos!

[jonnyhighmark]

Thank you very much for posting these videos! This is a very interesting way to learn a language.