Are you a doctor or a professional from a particular profession and need special Xhosa vocab specific to your industry? We now make customised Cds of phrases specific to your needs:
Examples of Topics:
- The Body, emergency situations, medicines, health care, hospital
- Family, kinship and occupational/career terms
- eating out / at the green grocer
- School and university
- Around the house and garden
- at the office / meetings
- banking and money matters
- post office and communications
- Law courts and Law enforcement
- government
- The media and Politics
- church
- Sport and recreation
- Seasons, Climate and Weather
- birds, animals, insects
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Showing posts with label Audio Language Learning CDs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audio Language Learning CDs. Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Audio Cd Content
CD 1: (Covered in the Level 1 Course).
Lesson 1: Pronunciation, reading the language and Greetingse
Lesson 2: Introduction to Verbs and Prefixes
Lesson 3: Sentence Building Blocks and NB 1st Sentences
Lesson 4: Greetings, Names and Appropriate Titles
Lesson 5: Introductions and Pleasantries
Lesson 6: Integration Orals and extra lessons
CD 2: (Covered in the Level 2 Course).
Lesson 7: Negatives
Lesson 8: Past Tense and Negative Past Tense)
Lesson 9: Asking questions
Lesson 10: Na as and / with / have
Lesson 11: Conversational Application for daily usage
Lesson 12: Integration Conversation Orals
Phrase CD 1:
- The Phrase CD is really just a convenient collection of all the phrases found in CD 1 and 2 without all the explanations and teachings in between. It is really just an effective tool for touching up and revising your Xhosa skills, specifically in preparation for CDs 3 and 4.
CD 3: (Covered in the Level 3 Course). More Verb-based Constructs, giving immediate oomph to your conversational ability. Each lesson has clear grammatical explanations, with exercises, sample conversations or comprehensions.
Lesson 13: Using Nga- to say by means of, about, for, and some locative
Lesson 14: Object Concords (OC)
Lesson 15: The Subjunctive, the potential and some useful constructs
Lesson 16: The Recent past continuous tense and the Remote past tense
Lesson 17: The Locative
Lesson 18: The Locative 2 - Positional Words
CD 4: (Covered in the Level 4 Course). The Noun groups. This course is quite academic (i.e. requires commitment and dedicated learning, as do all the others), but it still focusses on immediate and practical conversational application. It gives the Xhosa learner a thorough overview of the noun groups and a good practical understanding of the many ways in which they can be used.
Lesson 19: Noun Groups and Verb Links 1-4
Lesson 20: Verb Links to noun groups 5-8
Lesson 21: Verb Links to noun groups 9-15
Lesson 22: Summary of Noun groups and Verb Links - All, the whole and every
Lesson 23: Concordance and the Power of the noun Groups
Lesson 24: Conversational Application
Lesson 1: Pronunciation, reading the language and Greetingse
Lesson 2: Introduction to Verbs and Prefixes
Lesson 3: Sentence Building Blocks and NB 1st Sentences
Lesson 4: Greetings, Names and Appropriate Titles
Lesson 5: Introductions and Pleasantries
Lesson 6: Integration Orals and extra lessons
CD 2: (Covered in the Level 2 Course).
Lesson 7: Negatives
Lesson 8: Past Tense and Negative Past Tense)
Lesson 9: Asking questions
Lesson 10: Na as and / with / have
Lesson 11: Conversational Application for daily usage
Lesson 12: Integration Conversation Orals
Phrase CD 1:
- The Phrase CD is really just a convenient collection of all the phrases found in CD 1 and 2 without all the explanations and teachings in between. It is really just an effective tool for touching up and revising your Xhosa skills, specifically in preparation for CDs 3 and 4.
CD 3: (Covered in the Level 3 Course). More Verb-based Constructs, giving immediate oomph to your conversational ability. Each lesson has clear grammatical explanations, with exercises, sample conversations or comprehensions.
Lesson 13: Using Nga- to say by means of, about, for, and some locative
Lesson 14: Object Concords (OC)
Lesson 15: The Subjunctive, the potential and some useful constructs
Lesson 16: The Recent past continuous tense and the Remote past tense
Lesson 17: The Locative
Lesson 18: The Locative 2 - Positional Words
CD 4: (Covered in the Level 4 Course). The Noun groups. This course is quite academic (i.e. requires commitment and dedicated learning, as do all the others), but it still focusses on immediate and practical conversational application. It gives the Xhosa learner a thorough overview of the noun groups and a good practical understanding of the many ways in which they can be used.
Lesson 19: Noun Groups and Verb Links 1-4
Lesson 20: Verb Links to noun groups 5-8
Lesson 21: Verb Links to noun groups 9-15
Lesson 22: Summary of Noun groups and Verb Links - All, the whole and every
Lesson 23: Concordance and the Power of the noun Groups
Lesson 24: Conversational Application
Friday, January 2, 2009
Xhosa Audio CD Feedback
I dont often ask for feedback for the CDs, unlike my course feedback after every course, but I do get a constant stream of people telling me how great they are, and as a result I am now making 5 more CDs just to contain my ego. Here are a few, I remembered to save. Please add more, if you have the Cds and wish to.
“This is great stuff. As a beginner you gave me the words I could use right away in an easy to understand manner. I enjoyed your sense of humor which kept me listening after I would normally stopped. Thanks so much, this made a big difference in my last trip to the Transkei and I will be recommending it to other travelers. Cheers!”
Tim Stout Date Added: Saturday 29 November, 2008
“THE CDS WERE GREAT! They really help to get the sound, the rhythm and tempo of the language right”
Gene Falk
“Very high quality (have been a writer and publisher, so this is not said lightly!”
Barbara Johanssen
“They are so straightforward and easy to follow, thanks.”
Linda Codron
“Loved them! A great tool—my “security blanket.”
Dianna Crouse
“There is an obvious attention to detail shown in the development and structuring of the CD and notes. I find the detail in both sufficient to cover the areas that you don’t actually mention in class which may cause confusion or digression. I look forward to the future CD’s 3, 4 and 5. The amount of repetition heard on the CD is excellent. I find it very balanced. I did not refer to the notes as much as I did to the CD. An excellent learning tool.”
Beryl-Lyn Cocks
CDs can be ordered via email or on my site on the downloads page.
“This is great stuff. As a beginner you gave me the words I could use right away in an easy to understand manner. I enjoyed your sense of humor which kept me listening after I would normally stopped. Thanks so much, this made a big difference in my last trip to the Transkei and I will be recommending it to other travelers. Cheers!”
Tim Stout Date Added: Saturday 29 November, 2008
“THE CDS WERE GREAT! They really help to get the sound, the rhythm and tempo of the language right”
Gene Falk
“Very high quality (have been a writer and publisher, so this is not said lightly!”
Barbara Johanssen
“They are so straightforward and easy to follow, thanks.”
Linda Codron
“Loved them! A great tool—my “security blanket.”
Dianna Crouse
“There is an obvious attention to detail shown in the development and structuring of the CD and notes. I find the detail in both sufficient to cover the areas that you don’t actually mention in class which may cause confusion or digression. I look forward to the future CD’s 3, 4 and 5. The amount of repetition heard on the CD is excellent. I find it very balanced. I did not refer to the notes as much as I did to the CD. An excellent learning tool.”
Beryl-Lyn Cocks
CDs can be ordered via email or on my site on the downloads page.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Free Audio Samples
Listen, download and share loads of free mp3 audio lessons on our other blog: http://ubuntubridge.posterous.com/
These are some samples from my first audio CD:
A Basic Greeting
Pronouncing the X click
Saying Thank you
These are some samples from my first audio CD:
A Basic Greeting
Pronouncing the X click
Saying Thank you
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Haibo! Andiyazi! Audio CD description.
My audio Cds are mainly me doing the speaking, and they are designed intuitively, based on my learning and teaching process. Essentially, the elements of grammar and learning are explained as I do live in my class, and in the accompanying manual, so they can be listened to alone (e.g. in your car), or used in conjunction with the manual.
I always give the english first, followed by a gap for you to pre-empt the Xhosa, which then follows, followed by another gap for you to repeat the word. Its really well done and I have been complemented for years by native speakers for my 'sound', pronunciation and the way I speak the language. But that said, I have learnt as an adult, so I know what helps an an adult learner, the speed and clarity with which to speak, etc for your learning benefit.
There are times when lists of vocab are only said once, but you can always repeat the track, testing your self. Their are also tracks where the words are repeated numerously if thought appropriate and the tracks are numerous, so if you wish to repeat one, you don't have to listen to whole previous sections.
I believe it is the best learning tool for absolute beginners that there is, and it seems that almost all who have heard think so too, including teacher educators, other Xhosa teachers and people who have done other courses before mine and bought other learning materials before.
Anyway, there are some audio samples on the website: Audio Downloads, including the X click and the national anthem (me singing - now there's an ego shrinker if ever there was one). Otherwise you will just have to take a chance, or not. i do not know of any others like it.
I can also email the manuals to you before hand for you to peruse, and assess the content, which is also listed on the above linked page.
I always give the english first, followed by a gap for you to pre-empt the Xhosa, which then follows, followed by another gap for you to repeat the word. Its really well done and I have been complemented for years by native speakers for my 'sound', pronunciation and the way I speak the language. But that said, I have learnt as an adult, so I know what helps an an adult learner, the speed and clarity with which to speak, etc for your learning benefit.
There are times when lists of vocab are only said once, but you can always repeat the track, testing your self. Their are also tracks where the words are repeated numerously if thought appropriate and the tracks are numerous, so if you wish to repeat one, you don't have to listen to whole previous sections.
I believe it is the best learning tool for absolute beginners that there is, and it seems that almost all who have heard think so too, including teacher educators, other Xhosa teachers and people who have done other courses before mine and bought other learning materials before.
Anyway, there are some audio samples on the website: Audio Downloads, including the X click and the national anthem (me singing - now there's an ego shrinker if ever there was one). Otherwise you will just have to take a chance, or not. i do not know of any others like it.
I can also email the manuals to you before hand for you to peruse, and assess the content, which is also listed on the above linked page.
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