Deepen your Chamorro with guided lessons on more complex sentence patterns commonly used by native speakers. If you’ve finished Beginner Chamorro, these lessons will help you take familiar words and sentence patterns to the next level, enabling you to express more beyond the basics.
TOTAL LESSONS: 23 (Last Updated: November 3, 2026)
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Intermediate Chamorro Learning Path
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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 ways that don’t always exactly match a single pattern.
💡Try to use these patterns 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!
🔄️ Describing People and Things
Start exploring richer ways to describe the world around you. In this section, we move beyond basic descriptive patterns and learn to express ability, possibility, difficulty, and other nuanced qualities.
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🔄️ Making More Words for Increased Expressiveness
Chamorro frequently uses single words to convey thoughts and concepts that often require multiple words in English. This section will explore some common word transformations that you may hear and want to use in everyday conversation.
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🔄️ Action Sentences (With Objects)
Make action sentences with non-specific objects and learn new sentence forms to express different thoughts.
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Speech Attribution
Speech attribution is often read or heard in storytelling, and are phrases that indicate who is speaking. This includes phrases like “He said”, “She answered” or “The woman answered them”. Chamorro has different patterns for speech attribution, which we’ll learn in this section.
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- Speech Attribution: Part 1 – “Ilek”
- Speech Attribution: Part 2 – “Using the -IN- Infix”
- Speech Attribution: Part 3 – “Using the Reciprocal A- Prefix”
- Speech Attribution: Part 4 – “Using the Indefinite Man- Prefix”
🔄️ Action Sentences (Without Objects)
Learn how to make action sentences with intransitive verbs when there are 3+ people doing the action.
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🔄️ Other Action Sentences
Togetherness
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“Don’t” Statements
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🔄️ Chamorro Location Words
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🔄️ Existence
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🔄️ Chamorro Question Words
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🔄️ Chamorro Numbers and Counting
The counting system most frequently used by speakers today uses Spanish loanwords, but Chamorro also has its own, indigenous counting system that is being revived by some language groups. This section will open with the “modern” counting system that borrows from Spanish, followed by lessons on the different counting systems that are indigenous to Chamorro.
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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.
- Non-Specific Objects: 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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