| The goal of this first lesson is to read two Lao vowels, xະ (short final a?) and xາ (long aa)
and to pronounce them with Lao consonants. You can practice listening
and reading by clicking on the button or the underlined words below. |
Listening and Reading
these Vowels.1
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.
Practice 2:
Reading Words
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: ສະບາຍດີ (hello), ຄູ (teacher), ກະດານ (blackboard), ຕາ (eye), ປາ (fish), ກາ (crow),
ນາ (ricefield), ບາ (bar), ອາ (aunt) |
| verbs: ມາ (to come) |
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