Reading Lao: Vowels

Lesson 14

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


g7qk]q[m5'
pay homage to the national flag

Listening and Reading these Vowels.

	gxqk
glqk
a pole
	xe
l=fe
a pencil

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.

gxqk	gsqk	g8qk	g0qk	g'qk
	a lice	a stove	they	shadow
	gdqk	g0qk	glqk	gIqk
	scratch	they	pole	we
xe	fe	8e	de	7e
	black	to collide	to hold in once's hand	gold/(v) to touch
	me	oe	]e	Ie
	to do	to lead	to sing/ (cl.) bamboo stick, boats, etc	bran

Practice 2: Reading Words

gIqk,u	dtgxqk
We have	a bag
c]t	l=fe
and	a black pencil.
g0qkg-qk	g,qk,q;
He stops	addicting
oel5]k	1kg,qk
to alcohol	and tobacco or drug.

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: m5'(flag), glqk(pole), l=fe(pencil), l=(pencil), fe(black), gsqk(lice), g8qk(stove), g0qk(he or she),
g'qk(shadow), gIqk(we), 7e(gold/word), dtgxqk(wallet/purse), l5]k(alcohol), 1kg,qk(tobacco),
1k(medication)

verbs: g7qk]q[(to respect), gdqk(to scratch), 8e(to collide), de(to hold), oe(to lead), ,u(to have),
g-qk(to rent), g,qk,q;(to obsess/addict)

preposition: c]t(and), oe(with)

adverb: g,qk(drunk)