From:Nancy Thomas To:nlthomas@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net Subject:CWY Lesson #9 How Date:Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:38:22 -0800 X-Priority:3 Status:R Received: from default (d47.as1.alpe.mi.voyager.net [216.93.53.240]) by YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net (8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA17862 sender nlthomas@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:38:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.23 X-UIDL: a8eaf8a0e26b931b59ff1306785b7e49 X-Becky-Encoding:2 Cherokee language lessons Home Page: Archive: Message #12 Date: May 05 2000 13:42:11 EDT >From: "Cherokee language lessons" Subject: CWY Lesson #9 -- CWY Lesson #9 Today I am going to teach you one of the most important sentences that you can learn and the sentences is "How do you say this?" As you are learning, I must reiterate that you need to get away from using as much English as possible. You will utilize this sentence when you get a chance to talk to a fluent speaker and ask him specific questions on objects or names. Let me break the sentence down into parts. How do you say this? Ga-do ha-di-ha hi-a Formal or Syllabary pronunciation What is it you are saying this Do a-dti hi-a Conversational Do a-dt hi-a Conversational The conversational form of this sentence is hard to explain. But let me give it a try. A lot of the time (Ga-do) when combined with other words, will shorten to (do). I will give you another example in our next lesson. (Ha-di-ha) looses the first (h) and di-ha morphs into the dti sound. The a-dt almost has the sound of the English word (hot) with out the h sound and the dt morphing together. (Hi-a) pretty much does not change. You can also replace (hi-a) with an English word, if you want to know how to say a particular word. Here are some examples: How do you say this? (pointing at bread) Do a-dt hi-a Answer: Ga-du How do you say bread? Do a-dt bread Answer: Ga-du How do you say this? (pointing at milk) Do a-dt hi-a Answer: u-nv-di How do you say milk Do a-dt milk Answer: u-nv-di Also remember to use the Introduction to help you sound out the words and I am currently looking for other methods to help you with proper pronunciation. FOR ALL SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CHEROKEE LESSONS I want to say (sgi) for your patience. If you are trying to get back lessons please go through the steps below to get all back lessons. I would also recommend that everyone get a Cherokee syllabary chart. This chart will help you learn the phonetic system that I am using, but you will also get a chance to practice writing in Cherokee. *For new members-If you have just started receiving lessons you can go to http://www.listbot.com, click List Subscribers and enter your member information, click (View List Archives), click (Cherokee Language Lessons) and choose the back lesson that you need. .