I’m trying to make my way through our evening practice group’s backlog of songs that we transcribed over the last year and post them to this blog so we can all reference them for our learning. This one we listened to last November, and I remember all of us chuckling throughout the song. This song is great for beginners because it’s not too fast, and the singing is clear. Here are Chamorro lyrics and an English translation for the song “Ai Kika'” by Pacific Cool, hope you enjoy it!
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Learning to speak, read and write Chamorro while creating digital materials to support our worldwide learning community.
How to Say “I Want Coffee” in Chamorro – Expressing Desires and Preferences
This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.
In this lesson, you learn how to talk about what you want in Chamorro using malago’. You’ll practice making simple sentences like “I want coffee” and “I want this coffee,” learn how to say what you don’t want, and ask everyday questions such as “Do you want coffee?” Happy studying!
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Legend: The Story of the Breadfruit on Guahån
Here is another Chamorro legend about how the breadfruit tree came to be on Guam. I got it from the Legends book that I found on the KPV collection which has a great collection of legends all written in Chamorro. In this post I’ve included the Chamorro, an English translation, an audio narration, and a Quizlet flashcard deck. The narration for this story is done by Jay Che’le, hope you enjoy it!
How to Make Effective Flashcards for Studying Chamorro Outside of Class or Praktika
A common question that people often ask is “What can I do to study Chamorro on my own?” We know we need to “study” outside of the classes or practice groups we attend, but what does that actually look like? A common resource people may be given (especially beginners) are sentence drills – our grammar books are full of them in order to explain specific topics, and drilling them can help us learn words, conjugations and language structure. But just reading through the example sentences can get kind of boring, and translating a sentence is only part of the practice we need. So in this post, I’ll walk through how we can get more out of these sentence drills by making different types of digital flashcards that can give us effective self-study experiences.
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Here are Chamorro lyrics and an English translation for “Ta Baila Na Dos” by the Olomwaay Band. I love this song because it really captures the feeling I have when there’s Chamorro cha-cha music playing at a party, and I’m waiting to dance (or rather, waiting for Jay to dance with me!). When we were flying back to Portland, the tune to this song started playing in my head as we walked in the San Francisco airport. I only knew the words “Kao siña ta baila na dos” because I heard Jay’s nephew Josh sing it once, a couple of years ago. Right when we got home we started looking for this song, and I had to put it here so I could finally learn the lyrics. Jay and our Saturday evening practice group helped me clarify the lyrics on this song because there were some words I couldn’t catch, so big thank-you to all of them! Hope you enjoy this song 🙂
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