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Chinyanja Language Program

The Chinyanja Language Program contains 9 hours of audio, and one textbook in PDF file format with 374 pages.

Chinyanja Drills are recorded first for listening, then for familiarization through repetition, and finally for participation. During the participation step, when the student performs the required manipulation, his utterances are confirmed on the audio immediately following the space provided for his participation.

Chinyanja Drills are generally in two groups in any unit: a) variation drills on pattern sentences, which provide opportunities for the student to develop flexibility in the use of patterns already memorized, and b) grammar drills, which are intended to provide practice for the student in the operation of the patterns explained in the immediately preceding grammar notes.

Chinyanja, the principal language of Malawi, is spoken not only in that country but by large numbers of Malawians in neighboring countries. This course is intended to give the student a start in the Chinyanja language, both by providing them with materials for study, and by guiding them in taking over more and more of the responsibilities connected with language learning. The goal is the ability to speak a little Chinyanja well, and ability to learn much more of it as is needed for individual work situations in Malawi.

Speakers of English who are studying Chinyanja find the pronunciation less difficult than it is confusing. Chinyanja has no "clicks", no ''whistling z's" and no "coarticulated stops", yet published descriptions of the consonant sounds of the language leave the would-be learner in doubt at some crucial points.