admin wrote:We would like to share that the second edition of the New Lakota Dictionary is currently being printed and should be available sometime in July.
The second edition contains 3,160 new word entries, there are many additions to the grammar section and many overall improvements in the text.
We hope that Lakota language students will enjoy this edition of the dictionary.
This is good news! I read about it yesterday and placed my order. I've used a lot of language materials and seen most of the orthographies out there during the years that I've studied Lakota, but in the past couple years since I've had the NLD and have been using SLO, my Lakota language knowledge has increased much more than all the previous years combined. It has helped my Lakota language studies immensely!
It was difficult for me to get use to SLO, my eyes weren't use to the extra accents marks, but now that I've gotten use to it, I like it very much. I wish that it was available when I first started out studying Lakota, because many words I was pronouncing incorrectly, and also accenting words on the wrong syllables without knowing.
I also very much enjoy the sample sentences that are included in the NLD. Yesterday while looking up the word
éeye, I read this sample sentence: "
Wayášiče šni éeye wawókiye wačhíŋ po.
Instead of criticizing, try to help people." This was such a positive message for me. There's been a lot of criticism about LLC going on around, I've even expressed my opinion a few times.. but criticism is not helping me or anyone else to better learn Lakota. I think that this would be a good positive affirmation for everyone!
I also like the verb conjugations and much more that is in the dictionary, I could probably go on for another page, but I won't.. so, I'd like to finish by thanking LLC for their awesome dictionary and learning materials.
Líla wóphila ečičiya pélo!
Ken