EST_CLIR_0061_Language

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Note: Headphone use is recommended. 

Disclaimer: This audio was digitized thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) through the Recordings at Risk program, a national regranting program administered to support the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Thank you to CLIR for supporting our project  “Digitizing Important Eastern Shoshone Tribal Government Proceedings, Sacred Ceremonies and Rare Language Recordings, 1978-2018.

Description:  In this audio, Ralphalita Stump teaches you how to speak Shoshone. The words are first said in English by an unknown woman, and then Ralphalita repeats them in Shoshone. In this lesson, you will be asked questions like the difference between "I," "we," and "us." For example, "We are eating," "I am eating," "They are eating," "They are drinking coffee," "You are driving," "I am chasing the dog," etc. Next, they go over vocabulary such as tall (person), short (person), short (thing), fat, thin, happy, pretty (girl), pretty (male), ugly, big, little, new, he/she. Finally, they practice using short phrases with the new vocabulary words.