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Teach Yourself Yoruba: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself)
by E. C. Rowlands
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Teach Yourself (1993-08)
ISBN: 0844238430
EAN: 9780844238432
Dewy Decimal #: 496.33382421
Paperback: 276 pages
SKU: 07100129
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Trade Paperback. Very Good condition with no markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine or cover. Minor wear to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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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Customer Reviews
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Teach yourself Yoruba with a headache
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-11-16
5 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
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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This book is very informative.
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-08-08
10 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is easy to understand and a must have for english speaking learning this african language.
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