Here’s another post to prepare for learning about intransitive sentences. I’ve included 30 intransitive verbs that beginners can use to get started when creating basic action sentences, such as “I walked” or “They went to the store.” Each list indicates if the verb takes the UM infix, the MA prefix, or no affix for being used in basic action sentences, and can be used to practice sentence types in my notes tagged under Basic Intransitive Sentences.
taitai måsA few weeks back our practice group listened to the song “Guam Bomb” by KC DeLeon Guererro, and here are the lyrics we transcribed with the English translation. In this particular song, we are reminded in a humorous way of the benefits of owning an older car, even if it isn’t the prettiest. 🙂
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Here is the legend of Alupang Rock, written by Simon Camacho. We have been reading and translating Chamorro stories during one of our practice groups, and we did this one a couple months back. The Chamorro text, a Chamorro audio narration by Jay Che’le, and an English translation are in this post. The original illustrations were done by Rogelio G. Faustino, but I’ve refreshed it with this illustration generated by the Midjourney art AI. Happy reading!
This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.
In this lesson, we’ll begin learning how to talk about actions that aren’t done to anyone or anything else—actions like standing, walking, or dancing. These are everyday activities that people simply do. To use these action words in Chamorro sentences, the word often needs to change form first. We’ll take a closer look at how these changes work and why they matter. Understanding these patterns will help you start forming action sentences with these words and will prepare you for many of the sentence patterns you’ll encounter later in the language. Happy studying!
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Do you ever feel like your comprehension drops off when confronted with a long stream of Chamorro? At the end of last year, this would happen to me all the time – when a speaker would start talking to me, I felt like I could only grab the first 5-6 words of what they were saying before I’d get lost in a jumble of Chamorro that I couldn’t process. The same thing happened with reading; all those really long sentences felt impossible to process or took egregious amounts of time to translate, and I’d always feel discouraged. Since January I’ve been using a method called chunking, which has made it easier for me to follow and comprehend more long-form Chamorro. In this post I will talk about how I use this method to learn Chamorro.
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