Take your Chamorro to the next level with guided lessons on more complex sentence patterns and thought expression. If you’ve finished Beginner Chamorro and can already use basic sentences, these lessons will help you unlock more speech patterns commonly used by native speakers.

March 2026 Update: Updates to this section are currently paused as we do a final push to complete our beginner series. We anticipate posting new lessons to this section starting in April 2026. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

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: 20 (Last Updated: February 6, 2026)

Contents

1. Descriptions
2. Action Sentences (With Objects)
3. Other Action Sentences
4. Chamorro Location Words
5. Existence
6. Quick Reference Guides
7. Chamorro Numbers and Counting
8. Copyright Notice

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Descriptions

• Plural Forms: Talking About Groups in Chamorro
• Describing Nouns with Other Nouns – “The Coconut Tree”
• Describing Who Someone Is – “Our Neighbor Totoro”

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Action Sentences (With Objects)

Start making action sentences with non-specific objects and learn new sentence forms for expressing thoughts differently.

Non-Specific Objects

Speech Attribution

Next is a mini-series on speech attribution in Chamorro, which are structures for how Chamorros express things like “he said” or “they asked.” This is helpful for reading or listening to stories in Chamorro:

• Speech Attribution: Part 1 – “Ilek”
• Speech Attribution: Part 2 – “Using the -IN- Infix”
• Speech Attribution: Part 3 – “Using the Reciprocal A- Prefix”

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Other Action Sentences

Togetherness

• Togetherness in Chamorro – “We were together at the party”
• Using Nihi: Part 1 – “Let’s Go”
• Using Nihi: Part 2 – “Let’s Go Together”
• Using Nihi: Part 3 – “Let’s Go Buy Coffee”

“Don’t” Statements

• Don’t pt. 1 – “Don’t Say That”
• Don’t pt. 2 – “Don’t Ask Me”

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Chamorro Location Words

• Location Words: Part 1 – Guatu
• Location Words: Part 2 – Mågi

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Existence

• When “Somebody” is Doing Something: – “Somebody is making coffee”

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Quick Reference Guides

Access quick summaries of specific word transformations with these reference guides. These present, in table format, word transformations by tense.

• Man- Prefix & Transitive Verbs – Using Man- Prefix with Transitive Verbs
• Future Tense – Verb Forms for Future Tense
• Future Tense Shortcuts – A Guide to Future Tense Contractions
• Commands – Verb Forms for Giving Commands

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Chamorro Numbers and Counting

• Numbers and Counting: Part 1 – Spanish Numbers
• Numbers and Counting: Part 2 – Intro to Indigenous Numbers & Counting
• Numbers and Counting: Part 3 – Counting Living Things
• Numbers and Counting: Part 4 - Counting Nonliving Things
• Numbers and Counting: Part 5 – Counting Time
• Numbers and Counting: Part 6 – Measurements
• Numbers and Counting: Part 7 – Repetition and Grouping
• Numbers and Counting: Part 8 – Order and Sequence

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Copyright Notice

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