Overview
Main description
It's easy to teach yourself Xhosa!
Complete Xhosa with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Xhosa, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Xhosa with confidence.
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society. The accompanying audio CDs include audio exercises--performed by native speakers--that reinforce communicative skills.
Features:
- Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience
- Tests in the book to keep track of your progress
Table of contents
Introduction / Getting acquainted on an aeroplane / Meeting again at the Murrays’ home / Knowing how to speak Xhosa / Speaking about work / How do you like your coffee? / Are you warm enough? / Jenny at work - Let's speak Xhosa / Thandi at work - 'I am Dr Thamsanqa' / Peter at work at Kirstenbosch / Themba at work - an interview / May I speak to Mr Thamsanqa? / At the cricket match / Let’s go to that new restaurant! / Buying clothes and African arts and crafts / Travel woes / Xhosa heritage trail / Translations of the dialogues / Key to the exercises / Xhosa-English vocabulary / English-Xhosa vocabulary / Bibliography / Index
Author comments
Beverley Kirsch has taught Xhosa at the medical schools of the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Silvia Skorge was an associate professor at the University of the Western Cape.
