Lakota Language

Well, its definitely very hard to teach yourself a language, and in my opinion, Lakota is probably one of the harder ones to learn. But I do have the right accent for it, ahahahah. Who would have guessed, right?

Anyways...

I dug around in my room today and found one of the books that I bought a long time ag, its like a grammar book for Lakota. Its very interesting. I have a feeling I will catch on quickly, the problem is that I have no one to pronounce the words and things for me so I can see if I'm doing it right. I am trying to find video's of people speaking Lakota, but I've only found one so far. I suppose I've only been looking for the past half hour, so that might be why..

I want to learn my native language so I can teach my children, its the same thing with the religion. I think that not enough Native children care about our heritage any more and thats contributing to the loss. There are probably on a few hundred people that still know the Lakota language today, and probably more than half of those people are growing quite old. I want to learn it so that I can keep my people's traditions alive. This all sounds quite cheezy, now that I've read it again, but its all very true. I've talked to my Dad about it and he said that he's going to plan some kind of a trip to the reservation my people live on or to go to a Pow Wow or something. That way I can observe the culture at work and maybe pick up a little bit more on the language. I might also be able to find someone who is willing to teach me. But we probably won't be able to go until the summer. Which sucks just a little because I want to learn it as soon as possible. But oh well, summers almost here anyways :)