The exercises in this unit should take advantage of the personal information of both you and your teacher. In class, the names of those present will be used. All borrowed items are given in their fully Aymara form in these materials. An alphabetized list of the Spanish borrowings is in the Appendix.

The exercises for this unit are aimed primarily at a familiarization with the sentence suffixes:
                -sa information interrogative
                -wa affirmative validational -ti ye s/no interrogative
                -ti negative
You should try very hard to internalized these suffixes as much as possible, since they occur in almost ever Aymara sentence and are the basic building blocks of the grammar. For a description of these basic sentence types, see Gramática XII 1. For interrogatives, see Gramática V 1.11.4; VIII 1.3.

Homophony may be a serious problem for you in Aymara. In these exercises we have the following:
                 -ja~-xa 1 p possessive/sentence suffix
                 -ti yes/no interrogative/negative
                 -ta 1 p verbal suffix/2 p verbal suffix
                 -na possessive/'in'
                 (this may be two functions of the same suffix, but you may not see them as such. See Gramática, VIII 3.21.5.)

At the end of each unit you should prepare and present a dialogue of your own, using but not going beyond the patterns learned. The first two days of review could be used for intensive fixing of the patterns drilled in the exercises, practicing them in random order. The third day could be devoted to the presentation of you dialogue and to free conversation in so far as you are capable.

In general conversation you should ask and answer each other the questions from the exercises in radom order, incorporating whole utterances from the dialogue where appropriate.

The review tape is prepared so that you can make your own tape in response to the review tape for personal use in reviewing. The answers are in the appendix. You should make your own tape first and then use the answers to see how well you did. You can do it repeatedly until the tape sounds easy to you.