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Lakhotiya Woglaka Po! - Speak Lakota! Level 1 Audio CD

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This CD was for a teacher - someone far more advanced in the language than I am. I can see that it will be more useful when I can speak Lakota but for now it was not that helpful,

Ok, I love languages and one day I came accross the Lakota language: I simply fell in love with it and you will too! The reviews here are quite confusing: I bought from the LLC (Lakota Laguage Consortium) the Text book 1 and the text book 2, and I bought the CDs for each of these text books. The text books are AMAZING and will teach you a great deal! In my opinion they are the best teaching tools available. The CDS are really great companions to the text book as they teach you how to pronouce the words. Therefore it is a mistake to review the CD(s) as stand alone. If you have any doubt, try Text Book 1 and CD 1. The content, the work from the author (Mr. Jan Ullrich) is worth much more than these are sold for!

The LLC teaching text books and CDs are definitively FIVE Star material. I did try other books and method but nothing compares to the LLC's. I have just bought the New lakota Dictionary (see my review) and the combination of the text book + CD + dictionay is simply the best material you can ask for in order to really learn Lakhota.

This cd cannot be used on its own, and hardly compares to the truly professional language cd's produced by Teach Yourself or any other publisher. The publishers of Native American grammars for learning languages have completely disregarded the tried and true methods used for other languages western or nonwestern. I just can't figure out why. Lakota is no more difficult than any European language and the methodology for producing dialogs and vocabulary lessons seems to baffle the writers. The voices, however, are all very clear and give a sampling of young and old speakers, which is very nice. The book, of course, is meant for teachers to use with children, but adults with enough intestinal fortitude can use it for a basic understanding of the language. The book also uses an excellent orthography compared to White Hat's overuse of diacritic marks. Despite these shortcomings, it's important to learn Native American languages and especially to support the Lakota Language Consortium for its outstanding efforts to revive the language among the children.

Actually, I bought this CD for my brother who is learning the Lakota language. And from what I've heard from him he has said the CD (Lakhotiya Woglaka Po! - Speak Lakota! Level 1 Audio CD) is an easy way to learn the Lakota language.

This CD is great for learning pronunciation. It is a very clear recording by a number of fluent speakers. But the CD has to be used with the book. I actually like the second CD even better.

This CD is great. It contains over 400 Lakota words organized according to the lessons in the textbook. It really helps to look at how the words are spelled when you first listen to the CD. I listen to every lesson several times while looking at the words. Then I take the CD in my car and listen again, imagining the words and the pictures. Each word is printed on a picture of the thing it represents so it is a great way of learning both pronunciation and meaning. I also have the Level 2 and it goes much further in teaching pronunciation. The writing system is great and it is based on the standard Lakota spelling used in the New Lakota Dictionary. Wowapi kin lena e na nagoyapi kin lena lila wasteste.

I have found this CD and book set very helpful to start learning the Lakota language. Some of the reviews don't like the fact that the CD is all in Lakota without English. Well, if you're are too lazy to pull out the book and sit down with the CD, that's your own problem. The illustrations in the book, along with the words, are excellent. It gives you a visualization in your mind of the word(s) you are trying to learn. I studied Spanish in high school and college and find this Volume on par with textbooks I used for that course work. Maybe even better. The tendency, I believe, for anyone learning a new language is to try and learn everything at once. This book keeps it simple. Each chapter deals with a different topic and subsequently builds on previous chapters. I found the pronunciation guide very useful. I would highly recommend this book along with the companion CD for anyone starting to learn Lakota if your willing to put a little time and effort into your education.

The course is hard to follow even with the CD. You have to guess where the lesson starts and what they are saying since they dont use the english words before or after they say the Lakota word. The cd doesnt follow the book very well and jumps around on the page. It seems they assume you can speak the language already,

I have Not had time to listen to all the CD, but the part I did hear, I like very much. Thank-you.

I bought both CDs Level One and Level Two. It starts and goes completely through with a guy just talking in Lakota. There is NO ENGLISH at all, and nothing to look at or refer to. I was really hoping to learn Lakota, but just listening to a foreign language with nothing to LEARN the language from, is nearly impossible. If you just want to hear the language spoken, this might be for you. I am greatful Amazon caries something such as this, but as is...it is pretty useless.