Learn26 lessons
Ten minutes to your first sentence.
Each lesson adds a few words and at most one rule, and ends with a conversation you can hold. Everything in them uses only settled vocabulary — 300 roots so far.
Greetings
6 new words
Water, food, home
13 new words
People, day and night
14 new words
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
4 new words
More than one
One new word
Mine, yours, theirs
One new word
Asking
9 new words
Getting by
12 new words
We, you all, they
No new words
A day
12 new words
Being
No new words
Colours and directions
12 new words
Weather and directions
12 new words
Not, and
One new word
Pointing and placing
6 new words
School and time
12 new words
Wanting, being able, having to
2 new words
Comparing and joining
12 new words
Home and nature
28 new words
Colours and health
29 new words
Things and ideas
26 new words
Doing and feeling
24 new words
Everything so far
No new words
The table and the city
23 new words
Doing and being
20 new words
Telling and answering
No new words
Reading23% after one lesson
When you can start reading.
After the first lesson you already know 23% of every word in the texts — the frequency curve doing the work, since ten roots carry nearly a third of everything written. Din mi opens first, after Lesson 6, and the next after Lesson 8.
See the reading ladder — measured from the course itself, lesson by lesson.
Before you start