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Learn how to speak Setswana
The Tswana or Setswana
language[pronunciation?] is spoken in Southern Africa by
about five million people. It is a Bantu language belonging
to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho-Tswana
branch of Zone S, and is closely related to the Northern-
and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi
language and the Lozi language.
Tswana is an official language and lingua franca of
Botswana. The majority of Tswana-speakers are found in the
north of South Africa, where four million people speak the
language and an urbanised variety, known as Pretoria Tswana,
is the principal language of that city. The two South
African provinces with the most speakers are Gauteng (circa
11%) and North West (over 63%). Until 1994, South African
Tswana people were notionally citizens of Bophuthatswana,
one of the bantustans of the apartheid regime. Although
Tswana is spoken mostly in South Africa and Botswana, a
small number of speakers are also found in Zimbabwe and
Namibia; respectively, an unknown number of people and about
10,000 people speak the language there.
This foreign
language course was developed by groups commissioned by the
government. It is meant to be used as a crash course in
a foreign language for basic conversational ability by a
foreign traveler or diplomat. It is an introductory
course meant for beginners and includes basic conversational
language by native speakers.
This course
consists of a basic introduction to Setswana, with text, and audio files.
The audio course consists of a 45 minute audio section with a
17 page lesson book. The video course runs about
1 hour and 15 minutes. Adobe Reader is
required to view the PDF files, while the mp3 audio files files can be
listened to by any audio player on your PC. The video
course is in MP4 format.
Total run
time of course: Approx 2 hours in total length
A must have resource for any foreign traveler!
Notice:
Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's
drive! It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to
your TV or the CD player in your car!
This is a DVD-ROM disk, so you need a DVD-ROM drive on your PC
to play it.
This disk contains this
foreign language course in MP3 format. This is not for
use in your CD player, it is not for your DVD player, even
if they play MP3 disks. This disk is only formatted to
be opened in your computer. You have to insert this
disk in your PC, click on "My Computer" and click on the
disk to open the files. You can copy the MP3 files to
your PC, and then load them on to any MP3 player of your
choice. Please note: that if you try to
play this disk on anything other than your computer, it
won't work! |
