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Beginner

Journeying Into Cherokee: Help and Encouragement for Learning the Cherokee Language, Ed Fields and Mary Rae. They have a website, learningcherokee.com where you can sign up for their newsletter and practice understanding syllabary. They also have a list of resources.

We are Learning Cherokee, Cherokee Nation Education Services (free PDF). There are also audio files that accompany this guide that can be downloaded on this website. The Cherokee Nation language department website includes many resources.

Think Cherokee: A Cherokee Language Student Reference, by JW Webster. JW’s book discusses pronunciation using appropriate tones, basics of grammar, and word morphology, and includes lists of 100 common verbs, nouns, and adjectives. JW’s website is thinkcherokee.com.

See, Say, Write, Cherokee Nation Education Services. This book also has audio files that can be downloaded when clicking on the title.

Cherokee Language Lessons 1, Michael Joyner

Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World. This book isn’t specifically about teaching the language but includes Cherokee language words for nature terms.

Beginning Cherokee, by Ruth Bradley Holmes and Betty Sharp Smith

English-Cherokee Phrasebook, by John C Rigdon

Intermediate and Advanced

Essential Cherokee Phrasebook: With Real-life Phrases & Dialogues, by JW Webster

Cherokee Speech Patterns, by JW Webster

Cherokee Tense & Aspect: A Comparative Study, by JW Webster

Cherokee Medical Terminology, by JW Webster

A Handbook of the Cherokee Verb, Durbin Feeling, Craig Kopris, Jordan Lachler, and Charles van Tuyl

A Reference Grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee, by Brad Montgomery-Anderson

Grammar Guide from cherokeedictionary.net