Lakhota Speakster

Lakhota Speakster is a useful software utility that enables you to learn American Indian words and phrases. It also helps you practice and improve your pronunciation by hearing Lakhota sentences and words, as expected given the application's name.

Because the interface of the application is user-friendly, it allows you easy access to all it's functions without needing to consult a help file, which is not included in this version. The interface is pretty straightforward that consists of a small window, that cannot be resized or minimized, and a menu bar.

The program includes an introductory video that gets you accustomed with Lakhota culture, a phrase and word speaker, a screen saver and a dictionary. The dictionary translates words from and to English and Lakhota.

You can choose between several categories of words that include animals, colors, numbers, shapes, body parts, family members and food. Each category has a predefined set of words, which you can hear and view with the help of built-in American Indian themed Flash videos, that can be accessed separately using any web browser.

Lakhota Speakster provides you with an American Indian language syntax description, that explains you in detail the history of the dialect, as well as vocabulary information about how to pronounce words correctly and which syntax rules to follow.

Last but not least, the program includes a bidirectional dictionary that translates both Lakhota and English words. In addition to this, it also displays you how words should be pronounced. Sadly, a word search function is not available.

Lakhota Speakster is a software application that helps preserve Lakota language and customs offering you a simple way of learning a Native language. The program doesn't put a strain on your system's overall functionality since it runs on low CPU and memory resources.