Activity 1. Look at the pictures, listen and read the sentences from the song. Listen to the audio as many times as you want and try to match the sounds to the words.

Let's translate the words in the sentences literally:

As you can see, there are no verbs like "am," "is," or "are" connecting words in a sentence.

You can read more about the word order in Tuvan on this page.

Activity 3. Look at the pictures, listen and read the sentences from the song.

Let's translate the words in the sentences literally, without thinking about the grammar of the English language:

Activity 4. Listen and read the numbers from 20 to 100. Notice how some numbers are created from smaller numbers.

Activity 4. If you want to say "11," "48" or "86" in Tuvan, you combine the numerals. Notice that there are no special numbers for the "teens," like "eleven," "fifteen," or "nineteen."

If you want to read more about how nouns and numerals combine in Tuvan, go this page.

Please proceed to Part 3 Exercises to practice further recognizing and using the numerals in Tuvan.