Course
Beginner Ojibwe
18 lessons across 6 units — guided lessons with built-in practice, lesson quizzes, review days, and a conversation checkpoint closing each unit.
Unit 1: Foundations
0 / 4 completeHow Ojibwe sorts its verbs, where the language sits among its relatives, the tense and mode prefixes, and your first questions.
- •L1Verb Classification
- •L2Language Family & Yes/No Questions
- •L3Tense & Mode Prefixes
- •L4Review & Questions with Aaniin
Conversation Checkpoint
Use what this unit taught in a real exchange: using your first questions and introductions in a short guided exchange — introducing yourself by name · asking and answering yes/no questions · hearing the question particle in real sentences. Retry anytime; nothing is timed or locked.
Unit 2: One thing, many things
0 / 1 completeThe published VII chart enters: three stem shapes and the two endings that make them plural.
Conversation Checkpoint
Use what this unit taught in a real exchange: talking about one thing and many things in the same conversation — choosing singular or plural forms · matching the plural ending to the stem shape. Retry anytime; nothing is timed or locked.
Unit 3: Saying no
0 / 2 completeThe negative particle and endings, plural negatives — and the course's first checkpoint closes the A-Form grid.
Conversation Checkpoint
Use what this unit taught in a real exchange: saying what is and isn't happening, politely and clearly — negating a statement with the documented particle and ending · negating plurals. Retry anytime; nothing is timed or locked.
Unit 4: Asking where, asking when
0 / 4 completeThe aaniindi question family, the dependent B Form, telling time — and the course's midpoint checkpoint.
Conversation Checkpoint
Use what this unit taught in a real exchange: asking where things are and talking about the time of day — the where-question family · telling time · using the dependent b form after question words. Retry anytime; nothing is timed or locked.
Unit 5: Dependent clauses, negated
0 / 3 completeA checkpoint over the whole chart so far, the negative B Form, and the words for the people around you.
- •L11Checkpoint 2 — The VII So FarCheckpoint 2
- •L12The Negative B Form
- •L13Speaking With & About People
Conversation Checkpoint
Use what this unit taught in a real exchange: longer sentences: dependent clauses, negated, about the people around you — negative dependent clauses · words for family and people · keeping the whole chart straight. Retry anytime; nothing is timed or locked.
Unit 6: Reading real Ojibwe
0 / 4 completeThe C Form behind content questions, a whole documented story, one step beyond VII — and the final checkpoint.
- •L14The C Form
- •L15Reading a Story
- •L16Beyond VII
- •L17Final Review — Checkpoint 3Final Course Checkpoint
Conversation Checkpoint
Use what this unit taught in a real exchange: reading aloud and asking content questions about a real documented story — content questions with the c form · following connected sentences · reading with the markers you know. Retry anytime; nothing is timed or locked.
Every lesson checks your understanding as you go, and each unit closes with a Conversation Checkpoint. The source course's original Midterm and Final can be browsed as reference — they aren't scored here; your own progress runs on the course's built-in checkpoints.
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