Igbo Basic Course [Paperback]

Foreign Service Institute (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Jeffrey Norton Publishers, Inc (June 1, 1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884326071
• ISBN-13: 978-0884326076
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,931,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a preferred dialect...forward says from Central Owerri Province, September 26, 2008

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Leslie (Farmington Hills, Michigan) - See all my reviews

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Foreign Service Institute Igbo Basic Course Digital Cd ROM Version (Foreign Service Institute African Language Series)

The course is so thorough that native speakers were originally impressed. One teased that if everything in that [thick] book was learned, the language would be known better than he knew it himself. Unfortunately, in going through the audio and pronounciation guides with me...I was unanimously told that the dialect being taught is not the mainstream dialect, and though people from the region this course represents have no trouble understanding the mainstream...the mainstream can have quite a bit of difficulty when trying to understand them. I was basically advised to put the course on a shelf. (And I did...because I do not see the point in putting forth the effort to learn a languange only to have it be in a regional dialect that even the native speakers do not hold the patience to try to figure out.)