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
