The objective of the work is to give the learner a strong basis in spoken Jicarilla Apache. Dialogs are followed by vocabulary and explanations of text, which provide enough structural information to fullfil the demands of a basic text, and which also contain running comparisons of Jicarilla, Mescalero, Western Apache and Navajo. The remainder of each unit is comprised of review and practice with new vocabulary, comprehension exercises with questions, idiomatic expressions, cultural notes , humor, taboos, additional useful phraseology, lingistic notes, selective comparisons of four Apachean languages, and an index. Yes, I am learning it. Because of lack of diacritical marking capability on my commputer, upper case above signifies high tone.
IIs are nasal.
IIs are nasal. EEs are nasal. The text is recorded on four cassettes by Jicarilla Apache native speaker Rita V. Martine.