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53 lessons in 7 modules, from the alphabet to folk tales. Your progress is kept on this device, and on your account once you are signed in.

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Foreword
Course overview and a first short quiz.
≈ 5 min · Welcome to shikomoriStart
8 lessons
Module 1 · Alphabet and sounds
The 56 graphic units of shikomori: vowels, consonants, implosives, digraphs, pre-nasals, auxiliary signs.
≈ 115 minOpen the module
13 lessons
Module 2 · Reading words
Thematic vocabulary: daily life, numbers, colours, body, nature, family, food, time, loanwords.
≈ 150 minOpen the module
8 lessons
Module 3 · Word building
Prefixes, roots and noun classes — the Bantu architecture of shikomori.
≈ 100 minOpen the module
7 lessons
Module 4 · Sentences and expressions
Greetings, demonstratives, negation, basic conjugation.
≈ 86 minOpen the module
7 lessons
Module 5 · Dialectal variation
The six systematic correspondences between shiNgazidja, shiNdzuani, shiMwali and shiMaore.
≈ 70 minOpen the module
4 lessons
Module 6 · Reading legacy texts
INALCO 1988 notation and the Kamar-Eddine system — converting mentally to the 2019 norm.
≈ 52 minOpen the module
5 lessons
Module 7 · Culture and oral literature
Proverbs, tales, cultural vocabulary and the revolutionary-era lexicon.
≈ 62 minOpen the module

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