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.
TOTAL LESSONS: 49 (Last updated: March 27, 2026)
March 22, 2026 Update: I’ve updated the older lessons to match the style and clarity of our newer content. As I was updating, I noticed that many of those earlier lessons either don’t have audio recordings or else I have reorganized the content in ways that require new audio. We’ll be recording and uploading updated audio for those lessons as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience!
Beginner Chamorro Learning Path
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- 🔄️ Getting Started in Chamorro
- ✅ Describing People and Things in Chamorro
- ✅ Actions in Chamorro (With Objects)
- ✅ Actions in Chamorro (No Object Needed)
- ✅ More Everyday Actions in Chamorro
- ✅ Possessive Pronouns in Chamorro
- ✅ Talking About What Exists in Chamorro
- 🔄️ Chamorro Question Words
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.
✏️Study Tip: 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!
🔄️ 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: A Guide to Chamorro Pronunciation
- 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 01: Chamorro Pronouns – “I, You, Her, They”
- Lesson 02: Describing Yourself – “I am hungry”
- Lesson 03: Describing Who You Are – “I am a student”
- Lesson 04: Adding Details – “I am a tired student”
- Lesson 05: Describing Others – “The woman is happy.”
- Lesson 06: How to Say “Not” – “I am not hungry”
- Lesson 07: Making Questions – “Are you hungry?”
- Lesson 08: How to Say “But” – “I’m thirsty, but I’m not hungry”
- Lesson 09: How to Say “Because” – “I’m tired because I’m hungry.”
- Lesson 10: Connecting Ideas in Chamorro – Combining Sentences with “Not”, “But” and “Because”
✅ 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 11: Actions With Specific Objects – “Introduction to Transitive Verbs in Chamorro”
- Lesson 12: Past Tense – “I drank the coffee.”
- Lesson 13: Adding Detail to Objects – “I drank the hot coffee.”
- Lesson 14: Present Tense – “I am drinking the coffee.”
- Lesson 15: Adding Location – “I drank the coffee at the restaurant.”
- Lesson 16: Giving Commands – “Drink the coffee”
- Lesson 17: Future Tense – “I will drink the coffee.”
- Lesson 18: Using “Must” and “Should” – “I must drink the coffee.”
- Lesson 19: Talking About What You Can Do – “I can drink the coffee.”
✅ 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 20: Actions Without Objects – Intro to Intransitive Verbs & Affixes
- Lesson 21: Past Tense – “I stayed”
- Lesson 22: Present Tense – “I am walking”
- Lesson 23: Future Tense – “I will stay”
- Lesson 24: Commands – “Stay”
- Lesson 25: Using “Must” and “Should” – “I must stay”
- Lesson 26: Talking About What You Can Do – “I can stay”
✅ More Everyday Actions in Chamorro
Learn how to express what you want and like in Chamorro.
- Lesson 27: This and That – Esti, Enao, and Eyu
- Lesson 28: Want – “I want coffee.”
- Lesson 29: Like, pt. 1 – “I like you.”
- Lesson 30: Like, pt. 2 – “I like coffee.”
- Lesson 31: Like, pt. 3 – “I like this / these.”
- Lesson 32: Like, pt. 4 – “What do you like?”
Practice the patterns for using nouns as the doers in action sentences.
- Lesson 33: Noun Subjects, pt. 1 – “The woman bought the coffee.”
- Lesson 34: 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 35: Possessive Pronouns – Intro to possessive pronouns
- Lesson 36: My Food – “My breadfruit”
- Lesson 37: My Drinks – “My coffee”
- Lesson 38: My Pets – “My dog”
- Lesson 39: 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 40: There is / There is no – Guaha / Tåya’
- Lesson 41: What You Have – Guaha / Tåya’
- Lesson 42: 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 43: Asking “What?” – Håfa
- Lesson 44: Asking “Who?” – Håyi
- Lesson 45: Asking “Where?” – Månu nai
- Lesson 46: Asking “When?” – Ngai’an nai
- Lesson 47: Asking “Why?” – Håfa na
- Lesson 48: Asking “Which?” – Månu na
- Lesson 49: Asking “How Much? How Many?” – Kuantu
- 📎Lesson 50: Asking “How?” – Taimanu
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