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Built from your own family's voices. Pick what to practise — words and sentences are study material; stories are for listening.
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There is nothing to learn from until someone has spoken. That is not a limitation of this site — it is what learning an unwritten, endangered language means.
How to actually practise this
1
Listen before you speak. Thakali has
breathy consonants and a retroflex series Nepali does not. Your ear has to learn the
contrast before your mouth can produce it, and before any spelling will mean
anything.
2
Shadow, don't translate. Play, pause,
repeat aloud immediately, in their voice and rhythm. Say it before you work out what
it means. Each word and sentence was recorded twice for exactly this.
3
Rate yourself honestly. Cards you get
wrong come back sooner. "Easy" means you said it before the audio finished.
4
Then write it down. Once you can hear
and say it, add the spelling on the Words page. Writing it
first is what produces a dictionary of words nobody actually says.
Where these cards come from
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