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Recap

Nothing new today. Every fifth lesson is a pause: no new words, no new patterns — just a few quiet minutes pulling back out what you already met, so it sticks. If some of it has gone fuzzy, that's normal, and it's exactly what this lesson is for.

This one leans on Lessons 57–60 — everyone and all, finishing and making, the word for hand, and the word for hurt — but it also reaches back across everything so far, because old and new need to keep meeting. Say your answers out loud if you can; speaking beats reading.

1 · Quick-fire

Say each of these in Amatu before you peek — answers in Check yourself at the bottom.

  • Everyone
  • Done / finished
  • Hand
  • It hurts
  • I make water (I'm fetching water)

2 · A tiny conversation

Two friends at home. Read it and make sure every line lands before you check the translation below:

— aiya! ela nara li in domu? — da. mi hana mana. pau! — nalu, dana! ne kasi de mi dura. — wan. sa somi. mi yuva tu.

3 · Read this

A few lines, all in words you know. Work out the meaning, then check yourself:

mi hana mana to ela nara de mi. mana li pai! ne kasi de mi dura. mi kau. pau — mi somi in tanda de mi.

🎯 Pro tip Look at that middle stretch: a person's part of the body (kasi de mi), a feeling-verb (dura), and then a plain statement of how that lands (mi kau). Nobody handed you that as a phrase — you're recombining. hana from one lesson, ela from another, pau and dura from the last two, to and tanda from way back. That click of pieces locking together is the language starting to move on its own. You're well past single phrases now.

4 · Your turn

Out loud, or written if you have the means: say something true about a small job at home and how your body feels after it — using only words you already know. A few pieces to draw on:

  • The job → mi hana mana / mi hana ni / pau
  • Who it's for → to ela nara de mi / to yari de mi / to iya de mi
  • Your body → kasi de mi dura / mi kau / mi fia tanda

There's no answer key for this one — it's yours. The only rule is that it be true.

🗣️ Say it cleanly Two of today's words sit close in the mouth, so keep them apart: dura is DOO-ra — the first beat is a clean "doo," never "duh." And kasi is KAH-see — two even beats, no hiss at the end. Slow them down once and they'll come out right the next time.

5 · Check yourself

Answers — click to reveal

Quick-fire:

  1. Everyone → ela nara (or just ela)
  2. Done / finished → pau
  3. Hand → kasi
  4. It hurts → dura
  5. I make water → mi hana yala

The tiny conversation:

— Hello! Is everyone home? — Yes. I'm making food. Done! — Wow, thanks! But my hand hurts. — Oh no. Please sleep. I'll help you.

Read this:

I make food for all my people. The food is good! But my hand hurts. I'm sad. Done — I want to sleep in my bed.

How did it land? Anything you blanked on, that's your cue — reopen that lesson and say the phrase out loud once or twice before moving on. Sixty-one lessons in, building real sentences out of pieces — that's a genuine foothold, five minutes at a time.

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