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You must go and take lessons of competent professors of the language as well, you know; and if you have any friends who are good Manchu scholars, you should be for ever talking to them. Read some Manchu every day, and talk incessantly, until the habit of speaking comes quite naturally to the mouth. If you follow this rule in a year or two at the farthest


 * jai
 * secondly


 * bithede
 * book. with de in


 * šungke
 * well read


 * sefu
 * teacher (師傅 shih-fu)


 * be
 * accusative affix


 * baifi
 * Past Gerund (8) of baimbi to seek


 * bithe
 * book


 * hūla
 * Imp. (1) of hūlambi to read


 * manju
 * Manchu


 * gisun
 * word, speech


 * de
 * in


 * mangga
 * proficient


 * gucuse
 * plur. of gucu friend


 * de
 * in, with


 * adanafi
 * Past Gerund (8) of adanambi to go to, to be together


 * gisure
 * Fut. (5), here Imp. of gisurembi to speak


 * inenggidari
 * daily


 * hūlaci
 * Cond. (6) of hūlambi to read


 * gisun
 * word, speech


 * ejembi
 * to remember


 * erindari
 * always


 * gisureci
 * Cond. (6) of gisurembi to speak


 * ilenggu
 * tongue


 * urembi
 * to be accustomed


 * uttu
 * thus


 * tacime
 * Inf. (3) of tacimbi to learn


 * ohode
 * when


 * manggai
 * scarcely


 * emu
 * one


 * juwe
 * two