Spoken Marshallese is designed to fill the need for a basic text in the language of the Marshall Islands. It will give students a fluency in the language and a feeling for its structure enabling him or her to converse freely on a broad range of subjects without additional formal instruction. The Marshallese-English Dictionary by Takaji Abo Byron W. Bender Alfred Capelle and Tony DeBrum would be useful as a supplement to this text.