This basic course provides vocabulary and sentence structures used in everyday conversation. Following pronunciation section, lesson units include dialogs, textual and grammatical explanations, and exercises for review and practice. Cultural notes on Apache humor, taboos, and idiomatic usage are interspersed in the 21 lesson units. Throughout the text Jicarilla Apache is compared with western Apache and other Apachean languages. The author is Alan Wilson, with Rita V. Martine, native Jicarilla Apache speaker. Re-issued on CD in 2005. 4 audio CDs (4 hrs.) & 137-p. text. Order no. AFAP10D.