Jack and the Beanstalk (Lesson 1)

Chapter 1 - A curious trade

• " " (' ma min ') : Mother (Parent Female)

Jack and his   lived in a small house with their cow, and very little money.

• " " (' man esin ') : Market (Place of trade)
• "" (' esin ') : sell/trade

One day, his   said to him, take this cow to   and  her for money.

• " " (' zan Zagg ') : Jack ( Person Jack )
• "" (' zan ') : Person

  began on his way to  , but on the way, he met a strange .

• " beba " (' zi beba ') : beans ( Child of vegetable)

This  had with him some  beba . He said to   that he would  his  beba , for the cow.

"Why?" asked  , "a cow is worth much more than  beba "

• " lugin " (' lugin ') : Look / See

" lugin at these beans", replied the , "these  beba are magic. Just plant them in your garden and lugin what happens".

  really wanted to lugin , so he  the cow to the  in exchange for  beba

  took the  beba excitedly back to his  

• "" (' wei ') : Do/Did (Comes before verbs)

His   was not so excited. she  take the  beba from    throw them on the rubbish pile.

She then  sent    bed without any supper, and later  went  bed herself.

• " giasi " (' giasi ') : tree

During the night,  beba  began to grow into a tall giasi By the morning they  touched the sky.

• "" (' bi ') : of (separates groups of words)

  and his    lugin at the giasi   beba coming out of the rubbish pile.

   say. "I wonder what's at the top of that giasi   beba .

• "" (' ei ') : Direct Object Marker. (Marks what the verb happens to)

She commanded Jack to climb  giasi  beba   lugin  what's at the top"

   started  . It was a hard climb. When he reached  top, he was exhausted.

• "" (' gein ') : able / can

He  lugin around him, and to his surprise he "  lugin " (' wei gein lugin ei ') giant castle.

"How did that  get here?" he  asked himself."

• " vuli " (' vuli ') : Big

He walked  it and  lugin that it was much more vuli than he had realized.

"How  I get in?" he  asked himself, but then he  lugin  small gap under the door, vuli enough for someone small like him to climb through.

Once he was inside, he looked and, on the table vuli he saw a hen. He  lugin from around the corner as a  vuli vuli  speak  hen saying "Lay".

• "" (' don ') : Time / Moment / Hour

At that  the Hen  laid  egg that was pure gold.

 vuli vuli  took  egg,  cooked  ate.

• " giawin " (' giawin ') : go / move

   thought  himself, "I  need to get me  that hen". He waited until  vuli vuli  giawin then snuck onto the table vuli   grabbed  hen,  giawin back  giasi   beba

As he  neared the top, he  heard the  vuli vuli  crying out,  giawin giawin after him.

• " is " (' is-mon ') : him / his (as adjective after a noun)

   giawin giawin   grabbed  top of the giasi   beba   slid straight down    is 

• "" (' mugo ') : food / eat

  was very excited about this. The two of them    golden eggs for months.

Chapter 2 - Another visit.

• "" (' vis ') : New / Again / Re-

Much later, at       spoke to   is  He wanted giawin back up  castle   explore some more.

• " is " (' is-min ') : She / Her

   thought, this was a great idea, is   made da is-mon ei golden egg sandwiches.

   began  to climb the giasi   beba . is   entered   castle, quietly.

• " " (' bi wei ') : That does / of doing

On the table vuli     lugin  Harp   play music by itself.

• " i " (' i ') : Marks the subject when not the first word

  is   lugin   vuli vuli  say to the harp "Play", and "Stop" and realized  i is   wanted it.

  is   waited  i  vuli vuli  giawin before  climing onto the table  taking the harp,  giawin giawin away.

But the harp  called out, and  vuli vuli  chased after    lugin  i    giawin down the giasi   beba .

 vuli vuli  giawin down behind  . But    reached the bottom first.

• "" (' din ') : Cut

• "" (' elo ') : Tool / Use

  is   called da ma min is-mon, Oh fetch the Axe. is   giawin  returned with the "  giasi " (' elo din giasi '), and zan Zagg wei began din.

  giasi   beba  fell with a mighty crash, and  vuli vuli with it.

That was the end of  vuli vuli .

As for   and   is . They  lived a quite life,    golden egg sandwiches, to the beautiful sound of a harp, thinking nothing of  vuli vuli