Xhosa Lessons Overview

UBuntu Bridge conducts popular and enjoyable classes to help adult learners become comfortable and confident in everyday conversational Xhosa, through a mix of simplified and appropriate grammatical explanations, useful and important vocabulary and warm, engaging classes.

Xhosa Course Content

The Course:

• Classes are relaxed and enjoyable, but a degree of focus and application will be gently coerced from you. 
• The course consists of 3 Levels, each of which are mirrored in an A5 manual and corresponding audio CDs (2 per level). 
• Interesting and insightful culture topics are discussed in each class.

Learning Steps:

• The Level 1 course and CDs focus on the essentials of learning to speak Xhosa, including pronunciation and greetings, identifying Xhosa people, appropriate Cultural insights, verb based sentence construction, "escape sentences" for when things get out of control and everything required for polite, social and respectful introductions.
• The Level 2 course and CDs take things further covering past and future tense, negatives, questions and answers relating to work, family and time, and all relating to immediate conversational ability and appropriateness.  
• The Level 3 course starts with a good but practically quick look at the Noun groups and how nouns function.  From there further verb constructs are learnt, covering all the essentials to bring you to an extremely strong foundation for Xhosa speaking excellence.
• Link to course schedules and upcoming dates under public options.

Xhosa Course Content:

Xhosa Level 1 (6/8 classes)	Xhosa Level 2 (6/8 classes)
Lesson 1: Pronunciation, reading the language and Greetings	Lesson 7: Negatives and Clarification Phrases
Lesson 2: Introduction to Verbs and Prefixes	Lesson 8: Past Tense and Negative Past Tense
Lesson 3: Sentence Building Blocks and NB 1st Sentences	Lesson 9: Asking and Answering Questions and Future Tense
Lesson 4: Greetings, Names and Appropriate Titles	Lesson 10: Na as and / with / have
Lesson 5: Introductions and Pleasantries	Lesson 11: The Recent Past Continuous Tense and Verb extensions
Lesson 6: Integration Orals and "Where are you learning Xhosa?"	Lesson 12: Remote Past and Personal Details.

NB. The two further lessons that make up Level 1 include Crucial Clarification Phrases and an introduction to everyday Phrases in a number of contexts. Level 2's extra two lessons include preparing and performing Integration Conversation Orals at the end.

Xhosa Level 3 (6/8 classes) More Verb-based Constructs, giving immediate oomph to your conversational ability. Each lesson has clear grammatical explanations, with exercises, sample conversations or comprehensions.	Xhosa Noun Group CD: (covered in occasional Noun Group Workshops) This course is quite academic (i.e. requires commitment and dedicated learning, as do all the others), but it still focuses on immediate and practical conversational application.
Lesson 13: Noun GroupsSummary	Lesson 19: Noun Groups and Verb Links 1-4
Lesson 14: Applying the Noun Groups	Lesson 20: Verb Links to noun groups 5-8
Lesson 15: The Locative	Lesson 21: Verb Links to noun groups 9-15
Lesson 16: Using Nga	Lesson 22: Summary of Noun groups and Verb Links
Lesson 17: Object Concords (OC)	Lesson 23: Concordance and the Power of the noun Groups
Lesson 18: The Subjunctive, the potential and useful constructs	Lesson 24: Conversational Application

 NB. The two further lessons that make up Level 3 include looking at the conversations CD and Integration Conversation Orals at the end.

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