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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful book, but where are the tapes?,
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Hausa Complete Course (Teach Yourself Books) (Paperback)
I like this book very much. Hausa is definitely an underappreciated and underrepresented language. A great deal of Hausa scholarship is evident in the book and a real feeling for the people and the culture. The section on pronunciation is particularly valuable. Grammar and syntax are dealt with very clearly and very thoroughly. My one criticism of this book is that it needs audio support (read: tapes and/or CD). Although the explanation of the sounds of the tonal and intonational contours of Hausa is good, there really is no substitute for hearing it. The UCLA Hausa page will help a lot with learning to make the individual sounds (if you have sound files, of course) but there's no substitute for hearing spoken dialogues. I hope that there will be a new edition of this book which includes audiotapes.
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Teach Yourself Hausa Complete Course (Teach Yourself Books) by Charles H. Kraft (Paperback - January 11, 1973)
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