Yoruba is the mother tongue of more than ten million people living in Western Nigeria, in parts of Northern Nigeria and in Benin. This is an introductory course in "standard" Yoruba which is understood even where regional dialects exist. The course assumes no previous knowledge of the language.
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is very informative.,
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Yoruba: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
This book is easy to understand and a must have for english speaking learning this african language.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Teach yourself Yoruba with a headache,
By Inge (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teach Yourself Yoruba: A Complete Course for Beginners (Paperback)
Being a European woman living with a Yoruba man, I wanted to learn some of his language and bought Teach Yourself Yoruba. Unfortunately, I found that this booklet makes things extremely complicated. Although it is precise and correct, it starts with the first 6 chapters only dealing with the different tones. The examples that are given are probably useful when learning tones, but desastrous when you want to build some kind of vocabulary or practise making sentences. You have to be quite persistent to make it to chapter 7 ('Greetings' - e.g. good morning, good afternoon), let alone chapter 20 ('Numerals' - e.g. one, two, three, four, five).
I've learned many languages in my life (6 European languages, Chinese, Japanese, Swahili, Tibetan etc.), and although in most of them I never gained any fluency, I know from experience that this is not a good way to learn a language.
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