थकाली Thakali — a family language archive

थकाली Thakali · ths | ~4,200 speakers left, of ~12,000 Thakali | Definitely endangered (UNESCO) | Thak Khola, Mustang · Tukuche · Marpha · Syang

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How to actually practise this
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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.
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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.
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Rate yourself honestly. Cards you get wrong come back sooner. "Easy" means you said it before the audio finished.
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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.
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