Your First Conversation in SUL

The handful of sentences that carry a first conversation - all built from rules you've already learned. Practice, not new grammar.

Hello, thank you, please

The politeness words are ordinary words - nothing chains onto them in a greeting, you just say them:

Trading names

Ownership (name-me), the 'is' of identity, and the foreign marker before your name (exceptions lesson):

And to ask, put 'what' where the name would go - the question piece still lands dead last: name-you is what-question → isasnok afet atesnet ("your name is what?").

Small talk

Descriptions need no "is", so asking after someone is two pieces plus the question word. Answers are one word: 'yes', 'no', or just the description back:

Lifelines

The sentences that rescue a learner. Note the last one: 'help' plus the command piece is a complete, urgent, unmistakable sentence - one chain, two morphemes:

Put together, a whole first meeting

Hello - my name is yours-here - your name is what? - do you want food? - thank you. A real conversation, and you can already write every word of it.