Year: 2024

4 Key Learning Practices For Self-Study Chamorro Language Learners

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The end of this April marks four years since I commited myself to learning the Chamorro language. I cannot believe that it has already been so long! It has certainly been a crazy journey full of ups and downs, and if I had to do it again I would still choose to learn Chamorro. To celebrate this language “milestone”, in this post I talk about the four main learning practices that are crucial to helping me learn the language, as a primarily self-study Chamorro language learner who started at level 0.

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The Wind And The Sun

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Here is a story of competition between the wind and the sun from Aesop’s Fables, translated into Chamorro by Rita Inos. It was found in a draft manuscript among other translated works in the Pacific Area Languages Materials collection from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

In this post I’ve included the Chamorro text, an English translation, and a Chamorro audio narration by Jay Che’le. Happy reading!

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Kåntan Chamoru: Hågu Ya-hu

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Here’s another song (of the very few) I listened to toward the end of 2020, when I was in my first 8 months of learning Chamorro. It has always been one of my favorites, and so it was good practice to listen more carefully to the lyrics. Here are Chamorro lyrics and an English translation for the song Hågu Ya-hu by Lief Pangelinan. Happy listening!

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Kåntan Chamoru: Hu Faisen Hao

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Here is another Pacific Cool song that came up on Jay’s playlist this weekend when we were getting ready to go to Port Orchard to visit his family. I always sing along to the chorus whenever it plays, and decided it was time to put this on the blog! It’s another song with a nice tune about something sad (getting clear signals from someone that they don’t want to be with you anymore, but they won’t be honest with you and end things). Here are Chamorro lyrics and an English translation for the song Hu Faisen Hao by Pacific Cool. Happy listening!

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