Lakota Language Forum - Lakȟól’iya Owáakhiye Othí

... format of the dictionary would also be an excellent learning resource that would help you learn Lakota. But more importantly, it would help the children and young people in Lakota country to revive their ancestral language. Currently, there are 6,300 members in the forum. If only 100 of them ...

... can be emulated by a computer program, and most other things that claim to be immersion or immersive methods, are not. Adults cannot learn like children Rosetta Stone claims that we can learn like children do during natural language acquisition. But adults are not children, and a second language ...

Hi Carpallo, The third book and the third audio CD are intended for older children, and they are also great for adults. I, as an adult, started learning with the LLC book 1 and 2 anyway since they come with audio CDs, and thus you learn the correct pronunciation ...

... that I bought. Perhaps the ortography does not match the NLD but I find it quite usefull. The first book of the LLC seems to be intended for children. What is your opinion about the rest? Which is in your opinion the best way to learn Lakota? Thank you very much for your concern. Best regards.

... situations for students. Practice is absolutely necessary to developing fluency, as we all understand anecdotally when thinking about how young children learn language, through repetition, with mistakes, false starts and recasts. Older children learning a language that is not completely familiar ...

... correctly, but for those who don’t have access to the native speaking communities a most important part of the learning process is lost. As small children, we first learn our language skills by listening, later we begin to speak, and much later we begin to read and write. So in effect, without ...

Mitákuyepi,

Children songs - or songs at all - are a great thing when learning a language. They give you repetition, repetition, repetition - and all the time you're having fun. I wish I had got them much earlier, would have helped greatly with the numbers.

Tókša akhé!
Jana

Ha, so I'm not the only one who's into the children's songs! A great idea.

Tókša,

Jess

I bought the CD of the children songs and like them very much. I think Jan sings one of them too.

I was very surprised by and recommend the new Lakota Children's Songs CD that is available in the LLC catalog. Even if you're an adult, and you don't exactly walk down the street everyday singing children's songs, it's actually pretty good to listen ...

... please check out the LLC page and see all the nice things they are selling. While I was at it, I ordered a lot of other things, including the children stories. These stories are written in both Lakota and English and you can get a CD to go with them ( which I did) I think this is a great way ...

... just a few examples of contextual activities. Learning vocabulary and grammar without a context is ineffective. In natural language acquisition children always learn language through context, and nothing but context. Study group instead of classes Unfortunately there is a lack of qualified Lakota ...

... nowdays, very few were recorded in the old days and even fewer survived among contemporary Lakota speakers. The LLC is about to publish a CD with children songs and nursery rymes, a collection of both old and newly adapted Lakota songs, including the new Lakota alphabet song.

... a few dozens of words. The LLC textbooks are also designed to balance the use of the local variants. The main characters in the textbook are eight children who come from different reservations (e.g. Bob is from Pine Ridge, Lisa is from Cheyenne River, other characters are from other communities). ...

... Membership in this group is given to those people who teach the Lakota language in one of the reservation schools or other schools for Lakota children. Membership is associated with access to other forum sections and features. Honored members (yuónihaŋpi) Members of this group have earned ...