Lakota Language Forum

We received our copy of Lakota Audio Series last week. I have not been very active as a learner for the last couple of years and this is proving to be a wonderful way to get going again. I play the audio every day for myself. What is really wonderful is that my ...

... exists, you already have access to all parts of the forum that passing the entry test used to give you. The rest will be available when you take actively part in the forum activities and become an "active member" (which by the way is decided by the forum moderators and admin monitoring ...

... to go toward this project and would like to give more as soon as I can. I`ve been a member on this site for many years, but have not always been active and at times go long spans of time without being here at all. but, this site has given so much to me in my goal to someday speak Lakota, and ...

I haven’t been active in the forum for quite a long time unfortunately, but when I used the dictionary the other day, I noticed that money was needed for the audio recordings. I remember this idea being discussed and I think it’s ...

... in donations for the Audio component of the New Lakota Dictionary. It is very encouraging to receive donations for this project from many of our active forum members as well as from some people who are not active within the forum. You are all wonderful. Before the end of June we will need another ...

... Or: Log out, open NLDO, then log in, and open NLDO again. This should help, as far as I know my algorithm. Currently example sentences are seen by Active users (Škíŋčiyapi)

... so it would be nice if you tell us something about yourself here: PLEASE introduce yourself 8. The upper levels of the Forum are only available to Active Members - Škíŋčiyapi . Work towards achieving that status by taking part in Sentence of the Week . Don’t be afraid to ask questions or to make ...

... person suddenly fell ill at his heart and two days ago the doctors operated on his heart. This man’s name is Ben Black Bear Jr. who has been very active and helpful in Lakota language revitalization. He is now in a hospital and gradually recovering, which is a reason for us to be thankful. Please ...

... ma- and ni- is illustrated on the verb ečíyapi ‘to be called by a name’ . This word is not a stative verb but a passive participle created from an active verb. Long grammar explanations put students in a passive role, but for real fluency to begin developing, again, students need to discover the ...

... 3 and 4, Immersion Camp training, and special materials development projects for speakers. As always, LSI promises to empower both teachers and active learners of the language in a way that creates strong personal bonds among the participants. It's a lot of fun and we encourage you to look into ...

If you ask me, the NLDO would be more useful for active study, if it had some "semantic models" of the entities described in the dictionary. Sounds too technical, I'll try to exemplify. Suppose I want to learn the word teepee. I type it ...

... and teachers, but we're all learning because people like Jan, Kevin, Paha are sharing their knowledge with us. It's great that the number of active members is growing but we can't continue to sit back and wait for them to respond to every single post, especially when such detailed replies ...

... are pretty near. Mitch describes above how you can give points. Just for my own clarification, was I on track with my own thinking on trying to actively help people at least at my level? Yes. Everyone has to help at their own level. My way of seeing it is that having been here almost two weeks ...

... helped me quite a bit, you being one, that I would give them to.? Just for my own clarification, was I on track with my own thinking on trying to actively help people at least at my level? My way of seeing it is that having been here almost two weeks now, I have that much more under my belt than ...

... the forum. Mitch is doing a great job in initiating a lot of communicative activities (which is important!!) including Skype conversations, Ali is active in listening, others are more involved in reading or translation or helping in welcoming new members etc. This is all good and important and ...

... the members-helping-members thing , and I will try to be more involved, but I feel we really need to get more advanced speakers involved and more active in the forum overall. Mitch

... two weeks now, I have that much more under my belt than the one who joined two days ago. In helping others, I learn more!!! It forces me to be active in my own learning!!!! It is the concept of "I have to give it away to keep it!" I would hope that everyone here, no matter how new, ...

Share your knowledge and become a helper We are glad to see that the number of registered users and active members is growing. The number of members with advanced proficiency, however, is not growing at the same pace which means that the advanced members eventually won’t ...

The REPUTATION feature has been active for less than a month now. We originally thought we would ask for feedback after about two months of testing it. We welcome any feedback on it at any time. Do you find it encouraging, helpful, does it ...

Kostya, at the moment I do not see a reason why the few active Iyášičapi should need an own forum for they seem to be quite happy using English as a meta-language. What I meant was one for those who lack the necessary proficiency in English and need ...

... his/her main talent should be the abilty to pacify fighters, make that nobody felt offended, and do some technical support... So if there are many active Iyášičapi, we can start a Deutsch forum as well as Czech one...

Lakota Language Forum Membership LEVELS 1. registered members (ópȟapi) 2. full members (ópȟawičhayapi) 3. active members (škíŋč’iyapi) 4. experts (wóphikapi) In the future we also hope to have proficiency levels based on tests. PROGRESSIVE MEMBER GROUPS: 1. Registered members ...

... chart below shows the growth of forum members, those who register, who upgrade to full membership by passing the entry test and those who become active, hard working members ( Škíŋčiyapi ) or even helpers ( Wawókiyapi ). Some statistics on the evolution of membership and number of posts: Date ...

... breathe in its character and make it run. Wóphila! We also thank all registered members and accepted members, but especially those who have been active in making good posts, writing in Lakota, reading Lakota, listening to Lakota, conversing, discussing language issues and providing feedback for ...

... hand, is a highly inflectional language with complex morphology which results in a large number of word forms for every lemma. Most stative and active verbs have at least 7 forms but those with changeable A (ablaut) have 21 forms. Transitive verbs have 30 forms and if they allow ablaut then ...

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