Module 2

Module 2 · Reading words

Thematic vocabulary: daily life, numbers, colours, body, nature, family, food, time, loanwords.

13 lessons≈ 150 min9 lessons with listening

Start with 2.1

2.1Everyday wordsCommon greetings, yes / no, thanks, utility expressions to get a conversation started.ListeningCulture10 min
2.2Numbers 1 to 10Counting in shikomori and a first taste of noun class agreement.Listening10 min
2.3The main coloursWhite, black, red, green — and their noun agreement.Listening8 min
2.4The human bodyHead, eye, hand, foot, heart — dense vocabulary with typically Bantu class patterns.ListeningDialectsCulture14 min
2.5NatureEarth, sky, water, fire, sea, mountain — a domain heavily exposed to dialect variation.ListeningDialectsIllustrated14 min
2.6Family and humansFather, mother, child, fisher, foreigner — the 1/2 class and a classic dialect triplet.ListeningDialectsIllustrated12 min
2.7FoodTrovi, mhogo, nyama, dipe — vocabulary spanning Bantu heritage and French loanwords.ListeningIllustrated12 min
2.8TimeYesterday, today, tomorrow, days, weeks and religious holidays.ListeningCulture10 min
2.9Modern vocabulary (loanwords)French loanwords from the colonial era and scholarly vocabulary from Arabic.Listening14 min
2.10Counting beyond tenTens, hundreds, thousands; na and wa to link them; number agreement; ordinals and fractions.14 min
2.11Finding your way: directions and geographyUp, down, left, right; the cardinal points and the archipelago's landscape.12 min
2.12Saying how you feelJoy, anger, fear, sadness: emotion words and a few sentences to say them.10 min
2.13In class: instructionsRead, write, listen, repeat, count: the Mahoran booklet's instructions and classroom sentences.10 min

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