Reading Lao: Vowels

Lesson 13

The goal of this thirteeth lesson is to read two Lao vowels, .x and wx and to pronounce them with Lao consonants. You can practice listening and reading by clicking on the button or the underlined words below.


d=wzj
bamboo grove

Listening and Reading these Vowels.

	.x
.[w,h
leaf
	wx
w0
open

Practice 1: Reading with Consonants
To find out what tones these syllables have, please click tone.
Some of these syllables do not have meaning attached to them.
NM - no meaning.
The goal is to practice reading and listening.

.x	.[	.p	.z	.7
	leaf	NM	who	NM
	.9	.l	.8	.f
	heart	where	kidney	which
wx	w-	w]	w0	wv
	NM	NM	open	cough
	ws	w4	wx	w;
	stone barrel	to plow	to go	quick
	wI	wd	w0	w2
	NM	far	to open	fire

Practice 2: Reading Words

zq;g,p	,usq;.9
husband and wife	to have a heart
w,8u	[q;rk4nw4
relationship (friend)	BouaPaa is holding a plow
wxskxk	.ook,uwswr
to search for fishes	there is a bamboo stone barrel in the field
.[[q;	c]tsq;lu.7
lotus's leaf	and lemon grass

Exercises

1. Dictation Exercise: On a sheet of paper, write in Lao the words that you hear by clicking on the speech icons.

After finishing the above dictation exercise, click here for the answers.

2. What tones do you hear? Rising, Low, Mid, High, High Falling, Low Falling

3. Which vowel is long, and which is short?

Vocabulary:

nouns: d=wzj(bamboo grove), .[w,h(leaf), .[(leaf), w,h(wood), .z(who), .9(heart), .l(where),
.8(kidney), .f(which), ws(stone barrel), w2(fire/light), zq;(husband), g,p(wife), sq;(head),
[q;rk(a girl's name), w4(plow), xk(fish), ok(ricefield), sq;lu.7(lemon grass)

verbs: w0(to open), wv(to cough), w4(to plow), wx(to go), ,u(to have), 4n(to hold), sk(to find)

adverb: w;(quick), wd(far)

preposition: .o(in), c]t(and)