Learn Shona Online – Level 1

Learn Shona, the Bantu language spoken by nearly 80% of the people of Zimbabwe

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Description

Shona is a national language of Zimbabwe, along with Ndebele and the official business language, English. There are also clusters of Shona in Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana.

Nearly 80% of people in Zimbabwe speak the Bantu language of Shona, or chiShona, so this is definitely the language to learn if you are thinking of visiting that country!

Despite movement to urban areas, the traditional Shona people maintain constant contact with their rural home, viewing themselves as  “sons and daughters of the soil.”  It’s important to note that the Shona language is intertwined with Shona social and religious values. In addition to an everyday Shona language there is a “high” or “deep” Shona that is used in communicating with the ancestors.

What’s in a name?

Zimbabwe is named after Great Zimbabwe, the twelfth- to fifteenth-century stone-built capital of the Rozwi Shona dynasty. The name is thought to derive from dzimba dza mabwe (“great stone houses”) or dzimba waye (“esteemed houses”).

Course Content

LessonsStatus
1

Introduction

2

Greetings of the Day

3

How are you?

4

More Greetings

5

Please and thank you

6

I don’t understand

7

Yes/No

8

Countries

9

Countries Part 2

10

Countries Part 3

11

Numbers 0 – 10

12

Numbers 11 – 20

13

Where are you from?

14

What is the telephone number?

15

Give your contact details

16

Where do you live?

17

What do you do?

18

Colors

19

What’s this called?

20

Fruit

21

Vegetables

22

Drinks

23

What would you like to drink?

24

General food

25

In the kitchen

26

The verb to be

27

The verb to be – questions

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