SPEAK ZULU WITH US (Intermediate to Advanced)
ISBN:0-620-27725-4 Multimedia CD-ROM & Printable Workbook

Recommended Retail Price: R 650.00 incl. VAT (includes CD-ROM)

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MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM & PRINTABLE COURSE WORKBOOK
(providing at least 40 hours of tuition)


  • 10 comprehensive lessons presenting conversation, culture and songs, grammar, interactive exercises and vocabulary lists
  • conversational video clips of first-language Zulu speakers
  • sound clips of first-language Zulu speakers available on all Zulu words
  • record and play-back facility to perfect your pronunciation
  • a summary lesson with over 30 interactive exercises for revision purposes
  • a course word-list with a search-word function
  • a comprehensive printable course workbook can be accessed on the CD-ROM. This workbook supports and supplements the CD-ROM material and provides additional exercises

COURSE TOPICS

CONVERSATION GRAMMAR CULTURE
Shopping Adjectives Respect
Making Polite Requests Descriptives Cattle
Counting Quantitatives The Homestead
Family Size na- for "and/also/etc" Taxi Life
Where do you live? -na- for Possession Isicathamiya
Describing Things Remote Past Tense Songs
Personal Details Past Consecutive Tense Zulu Food
Talking about Past Events Locative Positions A Soccer Match
Houses - Size, Quality, Age Possessive Pronouns A Wedding
Objects and Furniture Identifiers ("it is/they are" with Nouns, Absolute Pronouns and Possessive Pronouns) Language
Position of Objects Subjunctive Mood Varieties in Zulu
Making Arrangements Locative Prefixes and Suffixes Music - Isicathamiya
Telephone Conversations Commands Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Days of the Week Commands with Objects Zulu Lullaby
Times of the Day Expressing "until"
Directions Sequence of Commands
Planning a Holiday Sequence of Events
Describe Distances Future Tense
Describe the Weather Nga- to express "with", "by", etc.
Seasons of the Year Stative Tense - "getting hungry", "am hungry", etc.
Good Wishes and Condolences Demonstratives - "this", "that", "those"
Gossip Se- to express "already"
Complimenting Applied extension to express "for", "on behalf of", etc.
Expressing Ability Verbs of Motion
Organizing a Party Relatives to Describe Objects and People
Asking "Why?" Descriptives from Relatives - eg. "is red", "are wet", etc.
Shopping for Clothes Neuter Extension to express -able/-ible , eg. "lovable"
Sizes and Prices Enumeratives to express "Which one?", "Which kind?", "Where is?"/"Here is/There is"
Conjunctions
Recent Past Continuous Tense
Participial Aspect
Relative Clauses
Passive

COURSE FEATURES

  • easy-to-use, learner-paced interactive interface - computer literacy not required
  • natural and lively dialogues presented on video clip from within the multimedia program
  • pronunciation evaluation through record and playback facility
  • optional repetition of all sound and video material
  • cultural material on both traditional and contemporary Zulu society
  • over a hundred fun, practical exercises with automatic answer evaluation and positive reinforcement
  • comprehensive and systematic presentation of the grammar always supported by relevant activities and exercises
  • easy access to the course vocabulary via a searchable word-list
  • self-testing made easier by option to hide text and translations on all videos and word-lists

OTHER ZULU PRODUCTS

BACKGROUND

Writing of the course began in early 1998. The authors, Derek Gowlett, Khethiwe Ngwenya and Tessa Dowling, all former lecturers in the Department of African Languages at the University of Cape Town, drew on their experiences as language teachers to develop a course that is both accessible and academically sound.

The Beginner Course was released in 1999 and was well received both locally and internationally. (The course is currently being used by Yale University.)

The Zulu Advanced Course was completed in 2001. This course covers a wide range of conversational and grammatical material - allowing the learner to progress to an advanced level of communicative competency.

The computer development was managed by Christine Dunckley, co-director of African Voices, who has an Honours in Computer Science and is the developer of Speak Xhosa With Us. Digital designer Anwar McWhite executed the final mix of video, sound, images and interactive activities.

COURSE CREDITS

Course content devised and written by:

Derek Gowlett Derek Gowlett MA (African Languages) WITS
Derek Gowlett received his MA in African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand and a Diploma in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Lozi, and has written numerous academic articles on comparative African Linguistics and Literature. He is editor of the book Contributions to African Linguistics (published by Via Afrika) and has done research on Yeyi and UMbundu (languages of the Caprivi/ Botswana and Angola).

Khethiwe Ngwenya Ba Dip Prim Ed UCT
Khethiwe Ngwenya grew up in a small farming community outside Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal. After completing a BA in Primary Education at the University of Cape Town (where she received the Class Medal for African Languages) Khethiwe taught in KwaZulu-Natal and then returned to Cape Town to pursue work as a freelance lecturer, writer and editor for Juta Publishing and Cambridge University Press.

Tessa Dowling PhD (African Languages) UCT
See Speak Xhosa With Us credits.

Software design and project management:

Christine Dunckley BSc (Hons) UCT
See Speak Xhosa With Us credits.

Software programming and graphic design:

Anwar McWhite
Anwar McWhite		 Alistair Hill
Alistair Hill