• <p style="text-align: center;"> <br /> <span style="font-size:26px;"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">&ldquo;Learning CHamoru reflects my pride as a daughter of Guahan and nurtures my dream of a peaceful and unified Marianas Islands nation.&rdquo;</span></span></span></p> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="color:#008000;"><em><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Mo&ntilde;eka De Oro</span></strong></span></em></span></div>


    “Learning CHamoru reflects my pride as a daughter of Guahan and nurtures my dream of a peaceful and unified Marianas Islands nation.”

    Moñeka De Oro
  • <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:24px;">&quot;I&#39;m Chuukese and study Social Work at the University of Guam.<br /> <br /> Learning CHamoru will make me a better social worker, regardless whether my clients are CHamoru, Chuukese or some other ethnic group.&quot;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"> <span style="color:#006400;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><em>Shirley Irons</em></span></strong></span></p>

    "I'm Chuukese and study Social Work at the University of Guam.

    Learning CHamoru will make me a better social worker, regardless whether my clients are CHamoru, Chuukese or some other ethnic group."

    Shirley Irons

  • <p> <br /> <span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-size:28px;">&quot;I speak CHamoru and I keep Learning CHamoru.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:24px;">It is beautiful to be able to communicate with people in our own language; if we don&#39;t use our language we die as a people.&quot;</span></span></span></span></p> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-size:18px;"><em><strong><span style="color:#006400;">Ray Torres</span></strong></em></span></div>


    "I speak CHamoru and I keep Learning CHamoru.

    It is beautiful to be able to communicate with people in our own language; if we don't use our language we die as a people."

    Ray Torres
  • <p> <span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;">Learning CHamoru allows me to converse with manamko in the language they know best. Listening to their wisdom helps nurture my love for our land and our people. Their words give me hope for our island&#39;s future.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"> <span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Camarin Quitugua</span></em></strong></span></span></p>

    Learning CHamoru allows me to converse with manamko in the language they know best. Listening to their wisdom helps nurture my love for our land and our people. Their words give me hope for our island's future.

    Camarin Quitugua

  • <p> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">Although our home is now in Austria, I want to keep learning CHamoru to maintain my links to&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">my home island Guam and&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#000000;">to pass them on to my children Ha&#39;ani and Noah.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><em><strong><span style="color:#006400;">Jeff Mendiola</span></strong></em></span></span></p>

    Although our home is now in Austria, I want to keep learning CHamoru to maintain my links to my home island Guam and to pass them on to my children Ha'ani and Noah. 

    Jeff Mendiola

  • <p style="font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-size:26px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The University of Guam and LearningCHamoru.com sign agreement to advance learning CHamoru on the campus of UOG and beyond.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p> <p style="font-size: 12px; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0);">Former President Dr. Robert Underwood,<br /> Former Senior Vice President Dr. Anita Enriquez,<br /> Dr. Gerhard Schwab,<br /> Si&ntilde;ora Rosa Palomo, and<br /> Late Dean Dr. Margaret Hattori-Uchima</span></strong></em></span></span></p>

    The University of Guam and LearningCHamoru.com sign agreement to advance learning CHamoru on the campus of UOG and beyond. 

    Former President Dr. Robert Underwood,
    Former Senior Vice President Dr. Anita Enriquez,
    Dr. Gerhard Schwab,
    Siñora Rosa Palomo, and
    Late Dean Dr. Margaret Hattori-Uchima

  • <p> <span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I thank the many volunteers who developed and maintain this website. Learning and teaching CHamoru and other regional languages are very much at the core of the mission of the University of Guam.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0);">Thomas W. Krise, Former President of the University of Guam</span></strong></em></span></span></p>

    I thank the many volunteers who developed and maintain this website. Learning and teaching CHamoru and other regional languages are very much at the core of the mission of the University of Guam.

    Thomas W. Krise, Former President of the University of Guam



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Welcome to Our Growing Community of People Learning CHamoru
If you are interested in learning CHamoru, this website is for you.

Amazingly, it is absolutely FREE! 


EnJOY Multi-Media Learning, Including Videos Throughout our Website. Here are some examples of videos.

ways of Learning CHamoru


We all learn similarly and differently. Therefore we organize our website along five ways of learning CHamoru; (1) using our online dictionary, (2) following general CHamoru lessons, (3) focused study of CHamoru grammar, (4) learning and practicing dialogues, and (5) studying examples of published CHamoru language in audio-visual media and in print. This structure of five distinct - but yet linked - ways of learning CHamoru provide you with the opportunity to customize and optimize your own unique way of learning CHamoru.

Dictionary
Chamorro Dictionary
Lessons
Successive, Predetermined Lessons
Grammar
Topical Grammar Lessons
Dialogues
Topical Dialogue Lessons
Media
Media & Chamorro Text Lessons
Join. Learn. Contribute.

As a registered member of LearningCHamoru.com, you have the opportunity to become part of an active learning community. You can tailor your learning to your specific needs, you can learn from others and others can learn from you. Let us know who you are, what works well for you, and what does not. Make suggestions for specific dialogues and CHamoru text examples that you want us to include in lessons. Or, you can volunteer for various other activities to develop and sustain LearningCHamoru.com. This way, your learning contributes to our learning.

Our Mission…

To provide an online platform to practice and to advance the learning of the CHamoru language. Our dictionary, lessons, dialogues and other learning materials are to generate a pleasant and rewarding learning process for learners with different learning styles and in diverse learning contexts. Beginning, intermediate and advanced learners together build and sustain a world-wide community of people learning CHamoru.

 

LearningCHamoru.com was featured by GVB

 

Dictionary

Our dictionary is an ongoing process of building an ever-growing online database of CHamoru words for English speakers. We pool multiple dictionary resources and provide them to you for your immediate use. If you want to know more than just the meaning of the word, you also are able to read how this word is used in single sentences, in various dialogues and in published media.

Lessons

25 Chamorro instructional lessons based on Donald Topping's textbook "Spoken CHamoru" are the core of our lessons. Each lesson contains a dialogue, grammar explanations, exercises and drills, as well as reviews and tests. You can listen to various native CHamoru speakers and playfully learn to speak the new words yourself and apply them in different sentences. As you move along the lessons at your own pace, you gradually move up the scale of CHamoru language skills levels, reaching level 10 when you successfully complete all 25 lessons. By then you will be able to carry a conversation with any CHamoru speaker. We continuously add other lessons which are authored by CHamoru language experts.

Grammar

Our grammar section describes the 'rules and regulations' of the CHamoru language. Whatever grammar topic you want to learn about, you can pick and choose from an ever growing range of topics; such as pronouns, verb forms, tenses, etc.. We use grammar resource from various authors and complement it with explanations and comments from our CHamoru teachers. This way of learning CHamoru is closely linked with all lessons, the dialogues, and learning CHamoru from the media.

Dialogues

Dialogues are the preferred way of learning CHamoru of many. All our dialogues have specific themes; such as conversations in the kitchen, at work, in a restaurant, etc. They are analyzed and explained sentence by sentence, can be listened to, and invite you to respond in your own words. The dialogues are linked with all other ways of learning CHamoru, especially with our dictionary and lessons.

Media

Seeing CHamoru words and texts in published books and public places, hearing radio commercials and announcements in CHamoru language, attending Catholic CHamoru masses and rosaries, etc. provide valuable opportunities for learning CHamoru. We carefully and continuously select examples from all forms of media and transform them into tools for learning CHamoru. For some learners, using simultaneously media examples with our dictionary and grammar topics generates a particularly effective way of learning CHamoru.

For best results...

  1. Because it is a Dictionary and not a 'translation application' it is best to search ONE WORD at a time. Don't search sentences or phrases.
     
  2. Search the basic versions of the word, usually in the present tense (such as, search 'run' instead of the past tense 'ran').
     
  3. The website offers far more, remarkable data for every word when you search while logged in (such as example sentences, etymology, etc.). Try it out, register for free. It takes 30 seconds.