Lakota Audio Series: A Practical Conversation Course

How to Use This Material

Unit 1: Introductory Vocabulary

Unit 2: Yes and No Questions, Yes and No Answers (I)

Unit 3: Yes and No Questions (II)

Unit 4: Šúŋka kiŋ sápa he?

Unit 5: Šúŋka kiŋ sápa he? – Review

Unit 6: Vocabulary Review

Unit 7: Pronunciation I: Lakota Oral Vowels

Unit 8: Common Greetings

Unit 9: Expressing Gratitude

Unit 10: Clothes Vocabulary

Unit 11: lé, hé, ká (Singular Demonstrative Pronouns)

Unit 12: Pronunciation II: Lakota Nasal Vowels (aŋ, iŋ, uŋ)

Unit 13: lenáuŋs, henáuŋs, kanáuŋs (Dual Demonstrative Pronouns)

Unit 14: Pronunciation III: Word Stress

Unit 15: Word Stress – Practice

Unit 16: Some Kitchen Vocabulary

Unit 17: Lená, Hená, Kaná (Plural Demonstrative Pronouns)

Unit 18: Pronunciation IV: Unaspirated Stops (k, p, t)

Unit 19: Introducing the Article Kiŋ

Unit 20: Pronunciation V / The Lakota Letter Ȟ [Ȟé] – h With a Wedge

Unit 21: Kiŋ With Lená and Introduction to Reduplication of Stative Verbs

Unit 22: Reduplication of Stative Verbs

Unit 23: Review of Reduplication and of Šni

Unit 24: Ablaut At the End of a Sentence

Unit 25: Ablaut Before Šni

Unit 26: Ablaut Before Ȟča

Unit 27: Non‐Ablaut Verbs

Unit 28: 3rd Person Singular

Unit 29: 3rd Singular Verbs in Sentences

Unit 30: 3rd Person Plural (Animate)

Unit 31: 3rd Plural Verbs in Sentences

Unit 32: Animate Plural (‐pi) and Inanimate Plural (Reduplication)

Unit 33: Pronunciation VI / Kȟ (Kȟa), Pȟ [Pȟa], Tȟ [Tȟa] (Velarized Stops)

Unit 34: A Brief Note About Time and Tense

Unit 35: Age Categories (Vocabulary)

Unit 36: Review of 3rd Singular and 3rd Plural

Unit 37: Suffix ‐pi in Questions

Unit 38: Suffix ‐pi With Šni

Unit 39: Pronunciation VII: Kh (Khi), Ph [Phi], Th [Thi] (Aspirated Stops)

Unit 40: 1st Person Singular of “I” in Class I Verbs

Unit 41: 2nd Person Singular or “you” in Class I Verbs

Unit 42: 2nd Person Singular and 1st Person Singular in Class I Verbs

Unit 43: Some Common Class I Verbs and Their Conjugation

Unit 44: What Is Your Name? What Is His Name? What Are Their Names?

Unit 45: Asking How to Say Something in Lakota

Unit 46: Kinship Ia / The Nuclear Family (What Is Your Mother’s Name?)

Unit 47: The Nuclear Family – Review

Unit 48. Review of Some Common Class I Verbs

Unit 49: What Is Your Mother’s Name?

Unit 50: Where Are You From?

Unit 51: Kinship Ib / Suffix: Ya With Kinship Terms

Unit 52: Suffix / Ya With Kinship Terms / Review and Addition

Unit 53: Kinship Ic / Atéwaye Kiŋ

Unit 54: Kinship Id / Uŋčíwaya Waŋ

Unit 55: Pronunciation VIII / The Lakota Sound Ǧ

Unit 56: Object and Unmarked Object

Unit 57: 3rd Singular Verbs With an Object

Unit 58: The Boy Saw the Girl (Subject – Object Word Order)

Unit 59: Who Heard Whom? (Subject/Object Ambiguity)

Unit 60: “i” in Class II Verbs

Unit 61: “you” in Class II Verbs

Unit 62: “i” and “you” in Class II Verbs

Unit 63: Waŋ and Waŋží (Indefinite Articles)

Unit 64: Waŋží and Waŋžíni (Indefinite Articles)

Unit 65: Waŋ, Waŋží and Waŋžíni (Overview of Indefinite Articles)

Unit 66: When Did You Come? (Hí, Híŋhaŋni, Haŋhépi, Ȟtálehaŋ, Aŋpéhaŋ)

Unit 67: When Did You Come Back? (Glí)

Unit 68: Vocabulary Review II

Unit 69: Are You Going to Dance? (The Word Kta)

Unit 70: Ablaut Words Before Kta (Iŋ Ablaut)

Unit 71: Tomorrow, Later Today, Tonight, (“when” in the Future)

Unit 72: Híŋhaŋni and Híŋhaŋni Kiŋháŋ (In the Morning and Tomorrow)

Unit 73: Tóhaŋ and Toháŋl

Unit 74: Pronunciation: IX: Č vs Čh

Unit 75: “i” in Class III Verbs

Unit 76: “you” in Class III Verbs

Unit 77: Ečhúŋ, Léčhuŋ, Héčhuŋ

Unit 78: The Affix Wičha‐

Unit 79: The Affix Wičhá‐ With Affixes for “i” and “you”

Unit 80: Pronunciation X.: Glottal Stop: Č’, K’, P’, T’, ȟ’, S’, Š’

Unit 81: You and I (1st Dual)

Unit 82: “Will You Dance With Me?” (Short Dialogues With the 1st Dual)

Unit 83: Affix Uŋ‐ (1st Dual) Before Vowels

Unit 84: 1st Dual in Conversations

Unit 85: Review of Verb Conjugation

Unit 86: We (1st Plural)

Unit 87: We (1st Plural in Conversations

Unit 88: You Singular and You Plural (2nd Singular and 2nd Plural)

Unit 89: You Singular and You Plural

Unit 90: Cardinal Numbers from 1 to 10

Unit 91: Cardinal Numbers With the Suffix ‐la

Unit 92: Cardinal Numbers as Verbs

Unit 93: Cardinal Numbers II. (Reduplication)

Unit 94: Talking About the Weather

Unit 95: Four Seasons

Unit 96: Talking About Seasons I. (Čháŋna, Recurring/Habitual Events)

Unit 97: Talking About Seasons II. (Last Summer, Blokétu K’uŋ Héhaŋ)

Unit 98: Talking About Seasons III. (Last Summer, Blokéhaŋ)

Unit 99: Talking About Seasons IV. (Non-Specific Past, Eháŋtu and Eháŋ)

Unit 100: Talking About Seasons V. (Specific Past Indefinite Event)

Unit 101: Talking About Seasons VI. (Specific Event in the Future)

Unit 102: Talking About Seasons VII. (Hypothetical Event in the Future)

Unit 103: Talking About Seasons VIII. (The Following Winter, Íwaniyetu)

Unit 104: Talking About Seasons IX. (Overview and Review)

Unit 105: When Do You Usually Go to Bed? (Toháŋtu Čháŋna Šna)

Unit 106: Giving Commands With Yo and Ye

Unit 107: Giving Commands With Wo and We

Unit 108: Giving Negative Commands to One Person

Unit 109: Giving Negative Commands to More Than One Person

Unit 110: Negative Commands to One Person and to More People

Unit 111: Giving Commands to More Than One Person (Positive)

Unit 112: Review of Plural Command – Positive and Negative

Unit 113: Command With “Na”

Unit 114: Giving Commands, Summary and Overview

Unit 115: Some Commands Used At School

Unit 116: Talking About Getting Dressed

Unit 117: The Verb Iglúza

Unit 118: Táku and Táku Čha

Unit 119: Ma‐ (1st Singular Object)

Unit 120: Ni‐ (2nd Person Object)

Unit 121: Ni‐ Before K (Plus a Review of Ma‐ And Ni‐)

Unit 122: Ma‐ With Commands

Unit 123: Review of Object Affixes

Unit 124: He Came the Following Day.

Unit 125: Waŋží and Etáŋ (Intro to Plural Indefinite Articles)

Unit 126: Waŋ and Eyá

Unit 127: Etáŋ and Eyá

Unit 128: Tuwéni

Unit 129: Tákuni

Unit 130: Introduction to Possessive Verbs

Unit 131: Introduction to Reflexive Verbs