Everyday Kai / intermediate dialogue

intermediate dialogue pages

Five connected-speech pages from the intermediate dialogue audio. Each page trains embedded yes-no questions, possible future action, contrast with ri, need clauses, and short Kai-English translation tasks.

method

how to study

  • Read the full turn before translating individual words.
  • Find the embedded question opened by va and closed by ya.
  • Mark the contrast after ri and the result after liri.
  • Translate into English first, then rebuild one answer from English into Kai.

dialogues

translation path

  1. ID001: asking about going home noa + namo / Everyday Units 02-06
  2. ID002: asking about the kitchen namnoa + huno / Everyday Units 02-06
  3. ID003: asking about school lunnoa + alo / Everyday Units 02-06
  4. ID004: asking about work kamnoa + luno / Everyday Units 02-06
  5. ID005: asking about the clinic sannoa + telteno / Everyday Units 02-06

pages

guided intermediate exchanges

ID001 / Everyday Units 02-06

ID001: asking about going home

Practice an embedded travel question, possible future action, contrast, and a need clause with noa and namo.

Mi el yale va ti an yare li noa ya. / Mi an-vai yare, ri mi el nive namo.

noa: home, vessel, place / namo: food, nourishment
ID002 / Everyday Units 02-06

ID002: asking about the kitchen

Practice an embedded travel question, possible future action, contrast, and a need clause with namnoa and huno.

Mi el yale va ti an yare li namnoa ya. / Mi an-vai yare, ri mi el nive huno.

namnoa: kitchen, food-place / huno: water, liquid
ID003 / Everyday Units 02-06

ID003: asking about school

Practice an embedded travel question, possible future action, contrast, and a need clause with lunnoa and alo.

Mi el yale va ti an yare li lunnoa ya. / Mi an-vai yare, ri mi el nive alo.

lunnoa: school, speech-place / alo: tool, instrument
ID004 / Everyday Units 02-06

ID004: asking about work

Practice an embedded travel question, possible future action, contrast, and a need clause with kamnoa and luno.

Mi el yale va ti an yare li kamnoa ya. / Mi an-vai yare, ri mi el nive luno.

kamnoa: workplace, work-place / luno: writing, text, utterance
ID005 / Everyday Units 02-06

ID005: asking about the clinic

Practice an embedded travel question, possible future action, contrast, and a need clause with sannoa and telteno.

Mi el yale va ti an yare li sannoa ya. / Mi an-vai yare, ri mi el nive telteno.

sannoa: clinic, healing place / telteno: device, signal object