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Láadan Lessons

These lessons are offered to the the Láadan Working Group for evaluation and discussion. They are intended to provide a programmed set of lessons for learning Láadan--just like in Suzette's second edition, but at a more moderate pace than was feasible in the second edition. Any feedback would be welcome; email Amberwind.
--Amberwind Barnhart, 2007

Throughout these lessons, text in this type of box is excerpted, with permission, from A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan, second edition, by Suzette Haden Elgin.

...and text in this type of box is quoted from communications with Suzette Haden Elgin, the founding mother of Láadan.

Contents

Lesson 1: Pronunciation & Transliteration

Lesson 2: Word Order

Lesson 3: Vocabulary Interlude 1

Lesson 4: Plural

Lesson 5: Negative

Lesson 6: Time Out 1

Lesson 7: Yes/No Questions

Lesson 8: "Wh" Questions

Lesson 9: Vocabulary Interlude 2

Lesson 10: Object Case

Lesson 11: Relativizing Morpheme

Lesson 12: Time Out 2

Lesson 13: Auxiliaries

Lesson 14: Identifier Case

Lesson 15: Vocabulary Interlude 3

Lesson 16: Verb Complexes

Lesson 17: Possessives

Lesson 18: Time Out 3

Lesson 19: Source Case

Lesson 20: Goal Case

Lesson 21: Vocabulary Interlude 4

Lesson 22: Numbers, Part 1

Lesson 23: Quantifiers

Lesson 24: Time Out 4

Lesson 25: Instrument Case

Lesson 26: Associate Case

Lesson 27: Vocabulary Interlude 5

Lesson 28: Place Case

Lesson 29: Time Case

Lesson 30: Time Out 5

Lesson 31: Manner Case

Lesson 32: Beneficiary Case

Lesson 33: Vocabulary Interlude 6

Lesson 34: Cause Case

Lesson 35: Purpose Case

Lesson 36: Time Out 6

Lesson 37: Focus Marker & Passive Voice

Lesson 38: Embedded Sentences

Lesson 39: Vocabulary Interlude 7

Lesson 40: Embedded Questions

Lesson 41: Embedded Relative Clauses

Lesson 42: Time Out 7

Lesson 43: First Declension Nouns

Lesson 44: Second Declension Nouns

Lesson 45: Vocabulary Interlude 8

Lesson 46: Pejorative Affix & Inherently Negative Words

Lesson 47: Advanced Pronouns

Lesson 48: Time Out 8

Lesson 49: Comparisons, Part 1

Lesson 50: Comparisons, Part 2

Lesson 51: Vocabulary Interlude 9

Lesson 52: Repetition Morphemes

Lesson 53: States of Consciousness

Lesson 54: Time Out 9

Lesson 55: Numbers, Part 2

Lesson 56: Comparisons, Part 3 (pdf only, so far)

Lessons Planned but Not Yet Completed

Lesson 57: Vocabulary Interlude 10

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