Essential resources if you're studying Mari:

• www.mari-language.com
• The textbook Оҥай марий йылме
  • Textbook as .docx
  • Audio materials
  • Vocabulary Course for Memrise (with Russian words)
  • Vocabulary Course for Memrise (without Russian words)
• Information on keyboard layouts etc. (Windows, MacOS)
  • Information on keyboard layouts (Linux)
• Mari-English dictionary
  • Mari-Russian dictionary, Russian-Mari dictionary, and others
• Corpus
• Learners' grammar (draft)
• Transcription and transliteration tools
• Morphology tools
• mari-lab.ru: Overview of electronic resources
• yolva.ru: Электрон книгагудо (Mari books)
• Join the Mari Learning Discord Group

Visit www.mari-language.com

• Slides (pptx)
• Russian For Everyone: Russian Alphabet

• Slides (pptx)

Visit the corpus

• Introduction to textbook
  • Audio: 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: СМС салам (Эльвира Токташева) (Text)

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02, 03
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Аваем, ит вурсо (Марина Садова) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Articles
    • 2. 'to be'
    • 3. Gender
    • 4. Word order
    • 5. Inessive case
    • 6. Cardinal numbers 1-50
    • 7. Singular after numerals and quantifiers
    • 8. Attributes
    • 9. Dictionary forms
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. кӧ? 'who'/ мо? 'what'
    • 2. Names
    • 3. ияш
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Ош висвис (Лилия Петухова) (Text)
  • An Udmurt Song
  • A Tatar song
  • A Chuvash song
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Verbs
    • 2. Accusative case
    • 3. Genitive case
    • 4. Possessive suffixes
    • 5. Order of possessive suffixes and case suffixes
    • 6-7. Possessive construction
    • 8. 'to have'
    • 9. Ordinal numbers 1-50
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Months
    • 2. The derivational suffix -ан
    • 3. ден 'and'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Юмынӱдыр (Станислав Шакиров) (Text)
• Our course's Day of Mari Literacy greetings read out on Mari El Radio
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Conjugation: present tense, 1SG & 2SG
    • 2. улаш 'to be'
    • 3. Illative case
    • 4. Possessive suffixes 1SG & 2SG
    • 5. Pronouns
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Kinship terminology
    • 2. тый 'you'
    • 3. лийже
    • 4. Reduplication
    • 5. Clitic -ат 'and'
    • 6. кӧ 'who'
    • 7. каяш (-ем), кошташ (-ам) 'to go'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02, 03, 04
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Лум велеш (Любовь Купсольцева) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Conjugation – present tense, 1Pl & 2Pl
    • 2. улаш 'to be'
    • 3. Possessive suffixes 1Pl & 2Pl
    • 4. Dative case
    • 5. Personal pronouns
    • 6. Animacy
    • 7. Order of possessive suffixes and case suffixes
    • 8. Plural suffixes
    • 9. Adverbial suffix -ла
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. тый 'you ~ те 'you'
    • 2. Postpositions
    • 3. Cardinal and ordinal numbers from 50
    • 4. Interrogative particles
    • 5. келшаш (-ем) 'to like' (~'to appeal'); to agree
    • 6. Asking someone's age
    • 7. Greetings
    • 8. сай, поро 'good'
    • 9. уке 'no'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Лум пеледыш (Станислав Шакиров) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • 1. Conjugation present tense
    • 2. Possessive suffixes
    • 3. Case suffixes, plural
    • 4. Personal pronouns
    • 5. Postpositions
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Шыргыжмаш (Куат) (alternative version by N@din)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Verb stem
    • 2. Imperative
    • 3. Comparative form of adjectives and adverbs
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. ӱстембак(е) 'onto the table'
    • 2. полшаш 'to help'
    • 3. Constructions with кӱлаш (-ам)
    • 4. Telling time
    • 5. Dative in temporal expressions
    • 6. да, а, ден
    • 7.кызыт, ынде 'now'
  • Text
  • Exercises
  • Mari-English Dictionary

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Эх, ну, Калтаса (0:00-2:45) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Negation of the present tense
    • 2. Negation of the verb улаш 'to be' in the present tense
    • 3. огыл as a negation particle
    • 4. Comitative case
    • 5. Case suffix usage in temporal expressions
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. -ат
    • 2. лӱман
    • 3. мӧҥгыштӧ - мӧҥгыш(кӧ)
    • 4. каяш (-ем) 'to go'
    • 5. дене 'with'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кидыштемже - пеледыш аршаш (Надежда Васканова) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Negation of the imperative (second person)
    • 2. Negation of the "imperative" (first person plural)
    • 3. Lative
    • 4. Necessitive infinitive in -ман
    • 5. Factual conditional sentences
    • 6. 'to be'
    • 7. -ак
    • 8. Px3Sg as a determining or emphatic particle
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Suffixation of interrogative pronouns
    • 2. кочмем ок шу
    • 3. тудын - ангине
    • 4. Infinitive usage
    • 5. Anatomical terms
    • 6. кодаш (-ам) ~ кодаш (-ем)
    • 7. гыч
    • 8. йыҥгырташ (-ем) 'to call, to phone'
    • 9. лияш (-ам) 'to be, to become'
    • 10. Yes and no (polar) questions
    • 11. черле
    • 12. иктаж ~ наре
    • 13. коршташ
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Какшан сер ӱмбалне ломбо (Станислав Шакиров) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Gerund ~ converb in -н
    • 2. Comparative case [!]
    • 3. Adjectives with short and long forms
    • 4. Object of comparison
    • 5. Superlative degree
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. идалык, ий 'year'
    • 2. кече, тылзе
    • 3. шинчаш (-ам) 'to sit down' ~ шинчаш (-ем) 'to sit'
    • 4. шулаш (-ам) 'to cut, to slice' ~ шулаш (-ем) 'to melt'
    • 5. пуаш (-эм) 'to give' ~ пуаш (-эм) 'to blow'
    • 6. молан 'to what; why'
    • 7. урем 'street'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кузе мый тыйым йӧратем (Василий Павлов) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • 1. Negation in the present tense
    • 2. Imperative
    • 3. Gerund ~ converb in -н
    • 4. Converb constructions
    • 5. кӱлаш 'to (be) need(ed)'
    • 6. кӱлаш ~ necessitive infinitive
    • 7. Order of suffixes: Px, Cx, Nx
    • 8. Comparison of adjective and adverbs
    • 9. Postpostitions
  • Exercises
  • Guest talks by Bogáta Timár:
    • Modal auxiliary constructions in Meadow Mari
    • Life in Unčo, a somewhat special Mari village

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Курорт (Йорга Каче) (Text)

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Пазар корно (Токташева Эльвира, Пушкина Наташа) Text, Chords)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Adjective derivational suffixes
    • 2. Denominal adverbs
    • 3. Comparison of adverbs in -(ы)н
    • 4. Simple past tense 1
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. мошташ (-ем) 'to be able to, to know to'
    • 2. почеш 'after; behind; according to'
    • 3. вара 'then, later, after'
    • 4. саламлаш (-ем) 'to greet; to congratulate'
    • 5. кояш (-ям) 'to seem, to appear'
    • 6. пецепт 'recipe; prescription'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кузе тый мылам кӱлат (Станислав Шакиров) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. садлан, садлан кӧра, сандене
    • 2. Negative gerund ~ converb in -де
    • 3. Negation of the simple past tense 1
    • 4. Negation of existential/possessive clauses in PST1
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Approximate numbers
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Почтальонка (Валерий Садретдинов) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Temporal adverbs in -сек
    • 2. Verbal derivational suffixes
    • 3. Participles
    • 4. Simple past tense 2
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. веле ~ гына 'only'
    • 2. тӱрлӧ-тӱрлӧ 'all kinds of, varying, diverse'
    • 3. -лан + поян 'rich'
    • 4. ӱстембалне 'on the table'
    • 5. тыгай ~ тыгай 'such a (one), this/that kind of'
    • 6. йӧратен
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Шошо пагыт (N@din) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Guest talk by Sampsa Holopainen: Notes on Mari language history
  • Review:
    • 1-5. The verbal paradigm
    • 6. Formation of adjectives from nouns with -ан and -cE
    • 7. Usage of adjectives as nouns
    • 8. Instructive forms in -н
    • 9. Conjunctions
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Пырля она лий нигунам (Марина Садова) (Text)
• The teacher interviewed on Mari radio in 2018
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1-2. Multi-part directional system
    • 3-4. Negative pronouns & adverbs
    • 5. Possessive suffixation of postpositions
    • 6. Usage of the passive participle
    • 7. Concessive clause with гынат
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. кӧра 'because of, due to'
    • 2. ал'е 'or; still; yet'
    • 3. кӱлеш 'necessary'
    • 4. лияш (-ям) 'to be(come); to happen'
    • 5. ял 'village, countryside'
    • 6. Phrases used upon departure
    • 7. пеш, моткоч, чот 'very'
    • 8. кол(ым) кучаш (-ем) 'to fish'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Автобус вашка шочмо ялыш (Геннадий Григорьев) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Collective Numerals
    • 2. Verbal derivational suffix -л
    • 3. Passive participle and temporal postpositions
    • 4. Compound past tense 1
    • 5. Aspectual auxiliary constructions
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. лиш- 'near', мӱндыр- 'far', кӧргӧ 'inside'
    • 2. Adjectives with the dative
    • 3-4. Animal names and genders, animal young
    • 5. куанаш (-ем), йывырташ (-ем) 'to be happy'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кол (Татьяна Кибаева) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Conditional clauses
    • 2. Gerund ~ converb of prior action ('after') in -мек(е)
    • 3. Plural suffix in -ла
    • 4. Possessive suffix third person plural as a plural suffix
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1.ик ...-ат
    • 2. Multi-part directional adverbs
    • 3. Multi-part directional postpositions - кокла 'middle'
    • 4. тошто, шоҥго 'old'
    • 5. жап, пагыт 'time'
    • 6. опташ (-ем) 'to place, to set' ~ опташ (-ем) 'to bark'
    • 7. мотор, сылне 'beautiful'
    • 8. йоча, икшыве 'child'
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кеҥеж йӱр (Эльвира Токташева) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Deverbal nominal suffix -маш
    • 2. Deverbal nominal suffix -ш
    • 3. Denominal verbal suffix -аҥ-
    • 4. Deverbal verbal suffix -д-/-т-
    • 5. Compound past tense 2
    • 6. Future-necessitive participle in -шаш
    • 7. Usage of dative suffix -лан with infinitives
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. -рак
    • 2. ончыч 'ago' ~ гыч 'in, after'
    • 3. колташ (-ем) 'to send'
    • 4. тореш 'against'
    • 5. Infinitive + лияш (-ям)
    • 6. Putting and placing
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Лач пырляште весела (Саша Иванов) (Text) (alternative version by N@din)
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • 1. Compound past tense 1
    • 2. Compound past tense 2
    • 3. Gerund ~ converb of prior action ('after') in -мек(е)
    • 4. Future-necessitive participle in -шаш
    • 5. Passive participle + postposition
    • 6. Plural suffix -ла
    • 7. Negative pronouns & adverbs
    • 8. Multi-part directional system
    • 9. Concessive clause with гынат
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Молан толын отыл (Александр Речкин & Эльвира Попова) (Text)
• YouTube: Names of railway stations in Mari
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Nominal/adjective derivational suffix -лык
    • 2. Verbal derivational suffix -ктᴵᴵ
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Auxiliary constructions
    • 2. неле, йӧсӧ ‘difficult; difficulties’
    • 3. ваштареш ‘against’
    • 4. нине ‘these’
    • 5. вес, весе ‘different, other’
    • 6. Russian conjunctions and particles
    • 7. тӱҥалаш (-ам) ‘to begin, to start’
    • 8. Animal names
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Йӱштӧ (Татьяна Кибаева) (Text)
• YouTube: Марий-влак шке масакыштым темлат
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Word order
    • 2. Verbal derivational suffix -алтᴵ (-лтᴵ)
    • 3. Compound past tense III
    • 4. Indefinite pronouns & adverbs
    • 5. Clauses with пуйто ‘that; as if’
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. савырнаш (-ем) ‘to turn into, to become’
    • 2. Asking and giving directions
    • 3. сӧрал(е) ‘beautiful’
    • 4. Bird names
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio: 01, 02
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кече лектеш, ончалеш (Эльвира Токташева) (Text) (Hill Mari Version by Лидия Кучера)
• Reading Hill Mari Through Meadow Mari
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Gerund ~ converb of simult. action (‘while’) in -шыла
    • 2. Clauses with манын
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. веле огыл ‘not only’
    • 2. Alternative forms of pronouns
    • 3. Animal names
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Корно корно (Станислав Шакиров)
• YouTube: Танец «Кандыра» в Книге рекордов России
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. шке ‘oneself; own’
    • 2. икте-весе ‘one another, each other’
    • 3. Derivational suffixes following plural suffixes
    • 4. Fractions and decimal numbers
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Centuries and decades
    • 2. ончаш (-ем) ‘to look; to shine’
    • 3. Tree names
    • 4. Cardinal directions
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Толынна тӱняшке (Иван Соловьёв) (lyrics and translations in video description)
• Pictures of the meetup in Prague
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • 1. Compound past tense III
    • 2. Gerund ~ converb of simult. action (‘while’) in -шыла
    • 3–4. Verbal derivational suffixes -(а)лтᴵ, -ктᴵᴵ
    • 5. Conjunctions манын, пуйто
    • 6. шке ‘oneself; own’
    • 7. икте-весе ‘one another, each other’
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Шыже (Марина Садова) (Text) (Russian-language version)
• YouTube: Марий Эл ТВ: 126-летие со дня рождения Сергея Чавайна
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Gerund of subsequent action (‘before’) in -меш(ке)
    • 2. Compound past tense IV
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Superlative construction with деч ‘from, of’
    • 2. Adjectival usage of уло
    • 3. Auxiliary constructions
    • 4. пижаш (-ам) ‘to stick, to adhere; to start, to begin’
    • 5. лоҥгаште ‘amidst, in the midst of, in’, лоҥгаш(ке) ‘into (the middle of), amidst’
    • 6. шинчаш (-ем) ‘to know’
    • 7. тудо ‘(s)he; that’
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Чеверынат, чеверын (Шыже кава) (Text)
• YouTube: Mari Language Online Resources
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. The imperative – third person
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. ӱмыр ‘life, lifetime’, курым ‘century’
    • 2. Auxiliary constructions
    • 3. шуко, ятыр ‘much, many’
    • 4. первый, икымше ‘first’
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: A Mari children's birthday dance
• YouTube: Марий Эл ТВ: Всероссийский форум финно-угорских печатных СМИ в Йошкар-Оле
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Final clauses with imperative third person and манын
    • 2. Necessitive construction -шаш + улаш (-ам) ‘to be’
    • 3. Alternative form of the simple past tense II
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. пураш (-ем) ‘to enter, to go in’
    • 2. тӱрлӧ ‘different, various, all sorts of (things)’
    • 3. Умылашыже огыт умыло ‘Well they don’t really understand one another’
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Шочмо кече (Татьяна Кибаева) (Text)
• YouTube: Summer School of Mari Language and Culture
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1–2. -дымЕ ‘un-, -less’
    • 3. Non-finite verbal forms as subjects
    • 4. Relative clauses and local clauses
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. семын
    • 2. кодшо, эртыше ‘last’, толшаш, шушаш ‘next’
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Муралте, йолташ (Эльвира Попова) (text shown during video)
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • 1–4. The verbal paradigm
    • 5. Adjective derivational suffix -дымЕ
    • 6. Final clauses with imperative 3SG/3PL and манын
    • 7. Necessitive construction -шаш + улаш (-ам)
    • 8. Participial constructions preceding modified nouns
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кычалам моторем (APTALIK) (text shown during video)
• YouTube: Monument to Jyvan Kyrla
• Ой луй модеш in Путёвка в жизнь
• Day of Mari Literacy Dictation in Yoshkar-Ola, 8 December 2021
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1–2. Demonstrative forms
    • 3. Word formation
    • 4. Compound postpositions
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Auxiliary constructions
    • 2. Locutionary verbs
    • 3. Miscellaneous necessitive constructions
    • 4. нӧлташ (-ам) ‘to rise’, нӧлташ (-ем) ‘to raise’
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Вашлияш ыле тыйым (Станислав Шакиров) (text shown in video)
• YouTube: Mari Shketan Theater - 90 years. Part 1.
• Mari Wordle
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Descriptive words
    • 2. Necessitive construction ‑шаш уло/уке
    • 3. Noun derivation
    • 4. Long forms of postpositions
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. кажне, еда ‘each, every’
    • 2. Phrases with шӱм ‘heart’, чон ‘soul’
    • 3. Auxiliary constructions
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Ой луй модеш (Иван Смирнов) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Indefinite pronouns/adverbs with керек- and кеч-
    • 2. Secondary usages of possessive suffix 2Sg
    • 3. Adjective derivation
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. гай ‘like’
    • 2. шокташ (-ем) ‘to be heard; to play (an instrument)’
    • 3. Auxiliary constructions
    • 4. Musical instruments
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Ӧндал мыйым (Светлана Строганова) (text shown in video)
• YouTube: Mari El Radio / Марий Эл Радио
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. The clitic -ат linking clauses
    • 2. Verbal derivation
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Суоми ‘Finland’ and other European countries
    • 2. я ‘or’
    • 3. кӧ … кӧ ‘some … others’
    • 4. вере
    • 5. Directional constructions
    • 6. Auxiliary constructions
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Йӱржӧ йӱреш (Наталья Сидоркина) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • 1. Clause types
    • 2. Modifiers in aspectual auxiliary constructions
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Кунам толат (Надежда Пашкина) (text shown in video)
• YouTube: Mari cuisine
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1–2. The particles ыл’е and улмаш
    • 3. Unproductive separative marker -м
    • 4. Reduplication
    • 5. тудо + Postposition
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Getting married
    • 2. ‘to go’
    • 3. Auxiliary constructions
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Йӧраташ ӱжеш кава (Станислав Шакиров) (text shown in video)
• YouTube: Моления на горе Чумбылату
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Nominalized genitive forms
    • 2. Indefinite pronouns/adverbs with -гынат
    • 3. Conversion
    • 4. Adverbial suffix -е ‘into … parts, in …’
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Auxiliary constructions
    • 2. уке ‘(there is) not’, огыл ‘((s)he/it is) not’ as nominals
    • 3. верч(ын) ‘for the sake of; because of’
    • 4. шомак, мут ‘word; words’
    • 5. колаш (-ам) ‘to hear’
    • 6. гын
    • 7. уке + лияш (-ям) ‘to be’
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Мыйын лу илышем лиеш гын (Марина Воронцова, Иван Соловьев) (text shown in video)
• YouTube: Mari Shorykjol and Russian Svyatki
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. -лаш(ке) ‘into (a language)’, -ла гыч ‘from (a language)’
    • 2. -маш уке
    • 3. Composition
    • 4. The … of us (-ынь)
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. Рошто
    • 2. дене ‘with’
    • 3. Auxiliary constructions
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Марлан налам (Йорга каче) (text shown in video)
• Classroom recording
  • Grammar:
    • 1. Participle + -ан
    • 2. Weakened imperative forms
    • 3. The clitic -с
    • 4. The clitic -ла
    • 5. Adverbs in -н’ек
  • Words and word usage:
    • 1. The Mari folk calendar
    • 2. Comparison
  • Text
  • Exercises

• Textbook chapter
  • Audio
  • Exercise solutions
• Slides (pptx)
• Song of the week: Икымше Йӧратымаш (Наташа Пушкина, Володья Матвеев) (Text)
• Classroom recording
  • Review:
    • Paradigm revision