Overview
Main description
It's easy to teach yourself Zulu!
Complete Zulu: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Zulu, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Zulu with confidence.
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.
Features:
One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language
Table of contents
Introduction / Pronunciation guide / How are you? / Who are you? / Can you speak English? / Can I help you? / Revision / Fill up, please / Ncamsile celebrates her birthday / Do you have Stoney ginger beer? / What do you do for a living, James? / Revision / Pleased to meet you, Ron / Can we have the menu, please? / Can we order some wine, please? / Can you direct me to the post office, please? / Revision / Telephone conversation / Sibongile Vilakazi and his family are having dinner / Gavin goes to the doctor / Filling in forms / Revision / Making a hotel reservation / In the furniture store / I want to report a burglary / Mr Maphummulo at the post office / Revision / Key to the exercises
Author comments
Arnett Wilkes is Professor of Zulu at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Nikolias Nkosi taught at the University of Pretoria.
