Lesson 5

 

The goal of this fifth lesson is to read two Lao vowels, 3xt and 3x and to pronounce them with Lao consonants.    You can practice listening and reading by clicking on the button or the underlined words below.
 
 
|ajo g-af 38t .sh ltvkf
please keep your table clean by wiping it frequently.

Listening and Reading these Vowels.

38t

table

|kd3,

watermelon

 

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.

3dt

3ft

38t

3ot
NM NM NM NM
3[t
3xt

3,t

3vt
NM NM NM NM

3d

 3f  38  3o
NM NM big NM
 3[  3x  3,  3v
NM NM NM bowl

 

Practice 2: Reading Words

xk3f

,kfk

a snake fish

NM

38fufu

,udt3xt

the good one

to have a coconut shell

,uxk3f

[yfk

to have a snake fish.

father

 

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: 38t (table), ltvkf (clean), |kd3,(watermellon), 3v(bowl), xk3f (a type of fish), fu(good),
dt3xt(coconut shell), [yfk(father) 38(body)
verbs: g-af (to wipe), ,u(to have) .sh (to give, to offer)
adverb: |ajo (often)
adjective: 38(big)
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