Igbo Basic Course (Paperback)

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One of the major languages of western Africa, Igbo is spoken principally in the eastern-central part of Nigeria. The course includes tone drills, dialogs, short narratives, and vocabulary.
13 CDs (12-1/2 hrs.) and text. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Jeffrey Norton Publishers, Inc (June 1, 1970)
• 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.com Sales Rank: #991,366 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 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

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

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.)