How to learn the Hmong Language
Learning a new language is like being born again and/or cooking the same
food using a different recipe :)
Alright, enough about my opinion. Let me suggest the way
I believe is best to help you learn the Hmong language. First, you must
really like to learn it. Without that desire, you will fail like a monkey
trying to hold on to a rotton banana :(
The first step is to learn the single consonants, and make sure you have mastered
them with the correct pronunciations. Click these to see how easy they are:
| Hmong |
English phonics |
Hmong | English phonics |
Hmong | English phonics |
| Consonant | n |
naw |
m |
maw |
d |
daw |
| Vowel | e |
as in day |
u |
as in zoo |
o |
as in saw |
| Tone | j |
interjection pitch |
s |
as in "Do" musical note |
|
as in "Re" musical note |
| Word | nej | nay! |
mus | moo |
do | daw |
| English Transation |
You |
|
go |
|
stir |
|
The Hmong language does not have the equivalent "to" as in "You go
to stir."
Once you have mastered the single consonants, vowels and tones correctly, you can move to the double
,triple and quadruple consonants. This concept is similar to when learning English.
You start with ABC then the vowels. Then move on to the double consonants, i.e,
thee, and then
three.
A hidden knowledge is like a hidden star, it shines nowhere. Jay Xiong.