Category: Chamorro Lessons: Beginner

Lesson 34: Talking About Your Beverages in Chamorro – “My Water”

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about drinks that belong to you and others by using a special pattern that’s just for beverages. By the end of the lesson, you’ll be able to say phrases like “my coffee,” “Juan’s drink,” and “Maria’s water” with confidence, and start to recognize this pattern naturally in conversation or writing. As always, this post includes explanatory notes, practice sentences, English translations, and Chamorro audio recordings by Jay Che’le. Happy studying!

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Lesson 33: Talking About Your Food in Chamorro – “My Breadfruit”

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In this post, we’ll continue learning Chamorro patterns for talking about what belongs to us. This time, we’ll focus on how to talk about food that belongs to you or someone else—phrases like “my breadfruit” or “your apple.” Chamorro uses special words in these kinds of possessive phrases, especially when talking about food, drinks, and animals. In this lesson, we’ll start with the food pattern and practice using it in clear, everyday examples to help it feel natural. Happy studying!

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Lesson 32: My, Yours, Hers – Introduction to Possessive Pronouns in Chamorro

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In this post, we will start using possessive pronouns in Chamorro. Using possessive pronouns in Chamorro requires some changes to how we pronounce the words we attach them to, and this post will focus on seeing, hearing and practicing these sound shifts. In my experience, many texts gloss over the pecularities of the sound changes that occur with possessive pronouns. So in this post I try to provide many examples, grouped by sound pattern, to give us a systematic overview of the most common sound changes. This post includes practice drills in Chamorro with Chamorro audio, and English translations for all the drills. Happy studying!

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Lesson 31: More Practice With People and Verbs – “The woman danced”

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This post will be an overview of how we can add nouns as the subjects in our basic action sentences that use intransitive verbs. We will learn the structures to express thoughts like “The woman ate” or “The child will run.” Up until now we’ve only been using pronouns as our subjects, to focus more on word order and verb transformations. So adding noun subjects will help us put more variety into our action sentences. This post will include examples for past tense, present tense, and future tense sentences that use intransitive verbs. Happy studying!

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Lesson 30: Who Did What? Using Nouns as the Subject – “The woman drank the coffee”

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This post will be an overview of how we can add nouns as the subjects in our basic action sentences. In all of my notes on basic sentence structures with verbs, I’ve only used pronouns (he, she, it, etc.) as the subjects to keep the focus on learning verbs and word order. In this post, we will practice word order to express thoughts like “The woman drank the coffee.” This post will include examples for past tense, present tense, and future tense sentences that use transitive verbs. And audio is included with all Chamorro sentences. Happy studying!

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