Lesson Guide

 

 

These grammar lessons are divided into 29 sections that each have one or more individual lessons that are designed to do in order. There are sets of exercises at the end of each section, which can be completed either on your own or with a partner.

 

These lessons are mainly focused on building your vocabulary and teaching you about Arapaho grammar, and you will also find audio files from native speakers throughout each section, wherever you see the symbol . You should listen to and repeat these audio files to familiarize yourself with the sounds of the Arapaho language.

 

Here is the list of each section and its contents, all of which can be found in the links on the left of this page!

 

  • Lesson One - Greetings
    • Basic Classroom Language
    • Basic Conversation Language
    • Basic Conversation - Part 2
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Two - Basic Verbs with Animate Subjects
    • Verbs with Animate Subjects [AI]
    • Stress and Pronunciation, 'We'
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Three - Basic Verbs with Inanimate Subjects
    • Verbs with Inanimate Subjects [II]
    • AI vs. II Verbs
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Four - Past and Future
    • Changes in Consonants
    • Changes in First Vowels
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Five - Questions and Negatives
    • Questions and Negatives (main link for Lesson Five)
    • Details on Questions
    • Details on Negatives
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Six - Inanimate Nouns
    • Inanimate Nouns and Their Plurals
    • Inanimate Nouns and Possession
    • Transitive Verbs and Inanimate Objects
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Seven - Addressing People and Giving Commands
    • Addressing people
    • Giving Commands
    • Commands Involving Clothing
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Eight - Converting Nouns to Verbs
    • Going from Nouns to Verbs & Vowel Harmony
  • Lesson Nine - Converting Verbs to Nouns
    • Converting Verbs into Nouns
  • Lesson Ten - Prefixes
    • Basic Prefixes
  • Lesson Eleven - Parts of a Verb
    • Breaking Words into Parts
    • A Simplified Story in Arapaho
  • Lesson Twelve - Verbs with Subject and Object (Two-Person Verbs)
    • Animate Objects
      • Two-Person Verbs (main link for Lesson Twelve)
      • Plurals
      • Exercises
    • Lesson Thirteen - Animate Objects - Continued
      • Animate Objects (main link for Lesson Thirteen)
      • Exercises
    • Lesson Fourteen - Questions and Negatives
      • Questions and Negatives
      • Exercises
    • Lesson Fifteen - Advanced
      • More TA Endings
      • Additional TA Endings
      • Exercises
    • Lesson Sixteen - Commands
      • Imperatives
      • Exercises
    • Lesson Seventeen - Dialogue Practice
      • Dialogue Practice
      • Exercises
    • Lesson Eighteen - Advanced - Continued
      • Remaining Endings - 1
      • Remaining Endings - 2
      • Exercises
  • Lesson Nineteen - Telling Stories: "Proximate" and "Obviative"
    • Proximate and Obviative with Nouns
    • Proximate and Obviative with Descriptive Verbs
    • Proximate and Obviative with Transitive Verbs
    • Exercises
  • Lesson Twenty - Summary of Verbs:
    • TA Verbs
    • More TA Verbs
    • TI vs. TA Verbs
    • Negatiives
  • Lesson Twenty-One - Animate Nouns
    • Animate Noun Endings
  • Lesson Twenty-Two - Prefix Combinations
    • Past
    • Future
  • Lesson Twenty-Three - Locations
    • Locative Endings
  • Lesson Twenty-Four - Possession
    • Possession
  • Lesson Twenty-Five - Double Possession
    • More on Possession
  • Lesson Twenty-Six - Passives
    • Passive Forms
  • Lesson Twenty-Seven - Reflexives
    • Reflexive Forms
  • Lesson Twenty-Eight - Demonstratives
    • Using Demonstratives
  • Lesson Twenty-Nine - Verb Transformations:
    • More Verb Forms