Start learning Chamorro from the beginning with short lessons, example sentences, and Chamorro audio. Build your beginner vocabulary and practice real, foundational sentence structures in context.
Friendly Learning Reminder: These lessons focus on practicing specific language patterns to help you form sentences and strengthen your understanding of Chamorro. In everyday conversation, native speakers may express the same ideas in different or more nuanced ways that don’t always match a single pattern exactly.
💡Try to use these structures as tools for guided practice and study, and look to the native speakers in your life to help you grow in lived, spoken Chamorro. Happy studying!
TOTAL LESSONS: 44 (Last updated: March 3, 2026)
Beginner Chamorro Learning Path
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- 🔄️ Getting Started in Chamorro
- ✅ Describing People and Things in Chamorro
- ✅ Talking About Actions in Chamorro (With Objects)
- ✅ Talking About Actions in Chamorro (No Object Needed)
- ✅ More Everyday Action Sentences in Chamorro
- ✅ Possessive Pronouns in Chamorro
- 🔄️ Talking About What Exists in Chamorro
- 🔄️ Chamorro Question Words
- 🔄️ Other Beginner Chamorro Topics
- Copyright Notice
🔄️ Getting Started in Chamorro
If you are an absolute beginner who is just starting your learning journey, here are a few key things you should know before diving in.
- Getting Started 1: Before You Begin – 9 Things You Need to Know About Learning Chamorro in Adulthood
- Getting Started 2: A Beginner’s Guide to the Chamorro Language
- Getting Started 3: Chamorro Sounds and Pronunciation for Total Beginners
- Getting Started 4: Your First 500 Words in Chamorro
- Getting Started 5: Your Next 500 Words in Chamorro
✅ Describing People and Things in Chamorro
Learn how to make basic descriptions about yourself and the world around you.
- Lesson 0: Learning Chamorro Pronouns – Introduction to Pronouns
- Lesson 1: Describe Yourself – “I am hungry”
- Lesson 2: Describing Who You Are – “I am a student”
- Lesson 3: Describing Others – “The woman is tall.”
- Lesson 4: Adding Details – “I am a tired student.”
- Lesson 5: Saying “Not” – “I am not hungry”
- Lesson 6: Making Basic Questions – “Are you hungry?”
- Lesson 7: How to Say “Because” – “I’m tired because I’m a student”
- Lesson 8: Connecting Ideas in Chamorro – Combining Sentences with Kao, Ti, or Sa’
✅ Talking About Actions in Chamorro (With Objects)
Learn how to build basic action sentences in Chamorro with transitive verbs—actions that are done to someone or something.
- Lesson 9: Talking About Actions and Objects – “Introduction to Transitive Verbs in Chamorro”
- Lesson 10: Talking in Past Tense – “I drank the coffee.”
- Lesson 11: Add More Detail to Objects – “I drank the hot coffee.”
- Lesson 12: Talking in Present Tense – “I am drinking the coffee.”
- Lesson 13: Adding Places to Your Actions – “I drank the coffee at the restaurant.”
- Lesson 14: Giving Commands – “Drink the coffee”
- Lesson 15: Talking in Future Tense – “I will drink the coffee.”
- Lesson 16: Using “Must” and “Should” – “I must drink the coffee.”
- Lesson 17: Talking About What You Can Do – “I can drink the coffee.”
✅ Talking About Actions in Chamorro (No Object Needed)
Start learning how to build basic action sentences with intransitive verbs—actions that don’t happen to someone or something else.
- Lesson 18: Actions Without Objects – Intro to Intransitive Verbs & Affixes
- Lesson 19: Talking in Past Tense – “I stayed”
- Lesson 20: Talking in Present Tense – “I am staying”
- Lesson 21: Talking in Future Tense – “I will stay”
- Lesson 22: Giving Commands – “Stay”
- Lesson 23: Using “Must” and “Should” – “I must stay”
- Lesson 24: Talking About What You Can Do – “I can stay”
✅ More Everyday Action Sentences in Chamorro
Learn other types of action sentences that are common at the beginner level, such as expressing likes and wants.
- Lesson 25: Want – “I want coffee.”
- Lesson 26: Like, pt. 1 – “I like you.”
- Lesson 27: Like, pt. 2 – “I like coffee.”
- Lesson 28: Like, pt. 3 – “I like this / these.”
- Lesson 29: Like, pt. 4 – “What do you like?”
- Lesson 30: Noun Subjects, pt. 1 – “The woman bought the coffee.”
- Lesson 31: Noun Subjects, pt. 2 – “The woman danced”
✅ Possessive Pronouns in Chamorro
Learn how to talk about the things that belong to us with possessive pronouns. We’ll learn core patterns and special patterns for specific objects (food, drink and animals).
- Lesson 32: Possessive Pronouns – Intro to possessive pronouns
- Lesson 33: My Food – “My breadfruit”
- Lesson 34: My Drinks – “My coffee”
- Lesson 35: My Pets – “My dog”
- Lesson 36: Yours and Mine – “Mine”
🔄️ Talking About What Exists in Chamorro
Learn how to talk about existence, presence, absence and what you have and do not have.
- Lesson 37: There is / There is no – Guaha / Tåya’
- Lesson 38: What You Have – Guaha / Tåya’
- Lesson 39: Present and Absent – Gaigi and Taigui
🔄️ Chamorro Question Words
Learn Chamorro patterns for question words—who, what, where, when, why, how, how much, and which.
- Lesson 40: Asking “What?” – Håfa
- Lesson 41: Asking “Who?” – Håyi
- Lesson 42: Asking “Where?” – Månu nai
- Lesson 43: Asking “When?” – Ngai’an nai
- Lesson 44: Asking “Which?” – Månu na
- Lesson 45: Asking “How Much?” – Kuantu
- Lesson 46: Asking “Why?” – Håfa na
- Lesson 47: Asking “How?” – Taimanu
🔄️ Other Beginner Chamorro Topics
The Chamorro Calendar
- Chamorro Calendar: Part 1 – Spanish Calendar
- Chamorro Calendar: Part 2 – Indigenous Calendar
Telling Time in Chamorro
- Telling Time: Part 1 – Time of Day
- Telling Time: Part 2 – Clock Time
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