Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1981. — 247 p. This set of instructional materials for Shona, a Bantu language, consists of lessons designed to be used with audiotape recordings (not included here), lesson notes, written exercises, and vocabulary. The first book contains 24 language lessons on a variety of grammatical topics, with line drawing illustrations. The second book...
Publisher: ALLEX Project, African Languages Research Institute, University of Zimbabwe Publication date: 2002 Number of pages: 542 ISBN: 82-90954-20-4 In this book, Herbert Chimhundu examines how the Shona language adopts and adapts words and concepts from other languages in order to function in a changing society. This case study of Shona can be considered as an example of an...
Author: Dr. Bob Boland & Team MD, MPH, DBA, ITP (Harvard) Publisher: crelearning-Lulu.com Publication date: 2003 Number of pages: 44 Practice and rapid natural absorption of basic Shona from English, with creative learning exercise and a 30 minute audio, in about a day.
Author: Dr. Bob Boland & Team MD, MPH, DBA, ITP (Harvard) Publisher: crelearning-Lulu.com Publication date: 2003 Format / Quality: MP3/ 56kb/sec./30 min. Practice and rapid natural absorption of basic Shona from English, with creative learning exercise and a 30 minute audio, in about a day.
Publisher: Mambo Press -Zimbabwe Publication date: 1999 Number of pages: 141 ISBN: 0-86922-156-6 An illustrated reference book to the basic grammar of the Shona language, aimed at second language speakers of Shona. Topics covered include tenses and moods of verbs, noun classes and class relationships, adverbs, adverbial phrases, verbal expressions and pronouns.
Publisher: ALLEX Project Publication date: 2005 Number of pages: 257 ISBN: ISBN 82-90954-27-1 This volume is a re-issue of Doke’s Report of 1931 in the form of a photographic reprint, with an introduction by Professor Herbert Chimhundu of the University of Zimbabwe. For greater usefulness, the introduction is also summarised in Shona. Doke’s Report remains the major reference...
Sixth impression. — Longman, 1983 (1965). — 308 p. — (LLT). — ISBN10: 0582612012, 13 978-0582612013. This book represents an attempt to provide people who know no Shona with a graded guide to a reasonable, if still elementary, grasp of this language. It consists of forty-two lessons, each consisting of a section of grammar, a short vocabulary, a piece of Shona, usually in...
Publisher: Mercury Press Publication date: 1984 Number of pages: 170 This is the second volume of Shona Grammatical Constructions Shona, or chiShona, is an African language spoken by nearly 80 percent of people in Zimbabwe. There are clusters of Shona people or Shona speaking people in Botswana and Mozambique, and in almost every country that shares borders with Zimbabwe. Shona...
E-publication, livelingua.com, 2008. — 519 p. Shona Basic Course is intended for general use by adult foreigners who want to learn Shona. Since however there exist several important varieties of the language, with clear standardization only in regard to orthography, it is strictly speaking impossible to write a course in 'Shona'. This book is based on the speech of two...
Author: Earl W. Stevick Publisher: Foreign Service Institute Year: 1965 Audio format: MP3/ 32 KB/sec. Shona is one of the two principal languages of Rhodesia, and extends also into adjacent areas of Mozambique. It consists of a number of dialects, but a standardized form of the language, based on the Zezuru, Manyika, and Korekore dialects, is generally used in printed...
Author: Earl W. Stevick Publisher: Foreign Service Institute Year: 1965 Audio format: MP3/ 32 KB/sec. Shona is one of the two principal languages of Rhodesia, and extends also into adjacent areas of Mozambique. It consists of a number of dialects, but a standardized form of the language, based on the Zezuru, Manyika, and Korekore dialects, is generally used in printed...
Editor: Stevick Earl W. Publisher: Foreign Service Institute Year: 1965 Pages: 536 Shona is one of the two principal languages of Rhodesia, and extends also into adjacent areas of Mozambique. It consists of a number of dialects, but a standardized form of the language, based on the Zezuru, Manyika, and Korekore dialects, is generally used in printed materials. These dialects...
S.l., 1995. — 357; 144 p. Ndau (also called chiNdau, Chindau, Ndzawu, Njao, Sofala, Southeast Shona, Chidanda) is one of the Shona dialects. It is spoken by people from the region of Chipinge (Zimbabwe). Some of its vocabulary is very similar to that of Ndebele and often this dialect can sound very different from that of basic Shona. O Ndau é um dos dialetos do Shona mais...
New York: Hippocrene, 2003. — 201 p. — ISBN: 0-7818-0864-2. Shona, a Bantu language, is spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. This dictionary and phrasebook features the ChiShona dialect. Included are vocabulary sections, a phrasebook, pronunciation tips, a brief outline of the language's grammar and information about local culture. This book is designed for travelers and...
Hippocrene Books, 2000. — 180 p. — (Dictionary and Phrasebooks). — ISBN10: 0781808138, ISBN13: 978-0781808132. Shona, or ChiShona, a Bantu language spoken by eight million people in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, is the official and most widely-spoken language of Zimbabwe. Designed for the traveler, this compact guide provides the means for basic communication in Shona, featuring a...
Publication date: 2010 Number of pages: 180 Th e study examines auxiliaries in Shona. One of the most problematic issues when dealing with auxiliaries not only in Shona but also in many languages of the world is the question of their categorical status. Th is study argues that the taxonomic problems associated with auxiliaries in Shona are largely a result of the use of...
Oslo: University of Oslo, 2009. — 223 p. Mpofu Nomalanga. Adjective as a prototypical category in Shona language (In English) History of the Parts of Speech: Europe and America. History of the Parts of Speech: African Linguistics. Theoretical Framework. Methodology. The Shona Noun Class System. The Shona Adjective Class. Nouns and Verbs as Modifiers. Appendix A: Adjectives from...
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Publication date: 2010 Number of pages: 257 ISBN: 978-3639292534 This book examines the repair strategies that Karanga and Zezuru, two dialects of Shona, a Bantu language, employ to achieve the CV syllable and the disyllabic Prosodic Word?preferred phonological structures in Shona. Often morpheme concatenation creates phonological structures...
Eurotalk, 2010. — 1h, 48 kbps. Use your mind's natural rhythm to learn a language with Rhythms Easy Shona from EuroTalk. It's naturally easier to learn something when it's set to rhythmic music, so that is exactly what we've done. Rhythms puts your mind painlessly to work: you don't even need to focus! Simple words and phrases are set to a varied pattern of rhythms and music...
Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., 1964 (2012). - 90 p. In Shona language. Steps to Christ is a Christian book by Ellen White. First published in 1892. Zita re buku iri rinotaura basa raro. Rinonongedza kuna Jesu sa iye chete angagone kuwana zvino shaikwa ne mweya, nekutungamira tsoka dze anopokana ne akamira "munzira ye runyararo." Rinotungamira mutsvaki we kururama, tsiko ne tsiko,...
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