Table of Contents

Introduction

Writing and Speaking

Types of diacritics (funny marks)

Vowels and diphthongs
Consonants
Tones and pronunciation

Musicality/laziness principle

Words and sentences

Plurals

Adjectives are special verbs

Softening and strengthening adjectives
Adjectives you should know
Adverbs you should know
The verb "to be" is sometimes omitted
Inflection, or why “am” and “is” are both “là”

Verbs you should know
Spaces in words
Nouns you should know

Pronouns and kinship terms
Conjunctions you should know
Prepositions you should know
Polite particles
Other words you should know
Sentence structure and word order

Specific patterns, what they mean and how they work

Numbers

Digits

Construction of multi-digit numbers
Ordinal numbers and days of the week

Time

Date

Expressions equivalent to "a few" etc, and how they work