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Shipibo Foundations · Module 1: Beginnings · Lesson 1 of 6

Read Shipibo in 90 seconds

Three things and you can read every word in this course. One: x sounds like English shmáxko is MAHSH-ko. Two: j is a breathy English hjakón is ha-KOHN. Three: the accent mark shows the stressed syllable — and it matters, because moving it can change the word. That's it. Everything else reads close to Spanish or English, and the full sound system gets its own lesson at the end of this module.

✓ sourced recorded class 1 00:59–01:06 · nothing invented

In a sentence

Try translating each line yourself before you tap.

jakón
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good — say it: ha-KOHN
máxko
tap to translate
small — say it: MAHSH-ko
Irake
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thank you — ee-RA-keh
Try it. Say all three aloud once. You now read Shipibo.

Check yourself

Shipibo x sounds like…
jakón starts with the sound…
The accent mark shows…
Báwa

Lesson complete

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