Goal: Plan further study.
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My biggest fear about going home is not the jet lag. It is waking up one morning in Canada and finding that my Mongolian has quietly left me.
So today Oyuunaa and I made a plan, a real one, with days and times: what to read, what to listen to, who to talk to. She ended with one piece of advice that had nothing to do with grammar, and it is the one I will remember best.
| Mongolian | English |
|---|---|
| хичээллэх | to study, to have lessons |
| хамгийн гол нь | the main thing is |
| нийтлэл | article |
| талаар | about, as for |
| радио | radio |
| онлайнаар | online |
| удаа | time, occasion (хоёр удаа: twice) |
| зөвлөгөө | advice |
| алдаа гаргах | to make a mistake |
| болих | to stop, to give up (–хаа болих: to stop doing) |
| төлөвлөгөө | plan |
| наах | to stick, to glue |
| асуулт | question |
The converb –саар / –соор / –сээр / –сөөр (lesson 164) with байх means "to keep on doing". As advice, put байх in the polite imperative: –саар байгаарай, "keep on …".
| Verb | Stem | –саар form |
|---|---|---|
| унших | унш– | уншсаар |
| сурах | сур– | сурсаар |
| сонсох | сонс– | сонссоор |
| бичих | бич– | бичсээр |
болих means "to stop, to give up". What you stop is a verb in –х with the reflexive ending –аа / –оо / –ээ / –өө: literally "to give up one's own doing".
The harmony is the usual one: сурахаа, ярихаа, уншихаа, үзэхээ.
| Form | Strength | Example |
|---|---|---|
| –вал сайн, –вал дээр | a gentle suggestion | Өдөр бүр уншвал сайн. |
| –аарай | a friendly instruction | Надад бичээрэй. |
| –х хэрэгтэй | you need to | Өдөр бүр давтах хэрэгтэй. |
| хамгийн гол нь … | the main point | Хамгийн гол нь өдөр бүр хичээллэх. |
өдөр бүр (every day), долоо хоногт хоёр удаа (twice a week), сард нэг удаа (once a month). The period takes the dative-locative, and удаа counts the times.
A study plan combines all three: what to keep doing, what to stop, and how often. Oyuunaa's plan for Limba fits in two sentences:
Write your own plan in the same shape, in Mongolian, and put it where you will see it every morning.
Go deeper in the grammar guide: Mongolian converbs · The reflexive possessive
A plan you can keep beats a perfect plan. Five new words a day make more than 1,800 words in a year, and one Mongolian song a day trains your ear for free.
Oyuunaa's last piece of advice is the most important one in this course. Every mistake you make out loud is a sentence you have dared to say, and Mongolians will always answer the courage, not the error.
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This written course teaches you to read and write. The LIMBA audio course makes you speak: 24 lessons of 12 to 15 minutes, recorded with a native speaker. You listen, you repeat, you answer — the perfect partner for these pages.
Download the Mongolian audio course24 audio lessons · MP3 · yours to keep