Kirundi Basic Course

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Cover Title Page Preface Table of Contents A Learner's Synopsis of Kirundi Structure Introduction Unit 1 - Exchanging greetings and getting acquainted A procedure for use with each new set of basic sentences Dialogues Footnotes Notes The use of the terms 'pitch' and 'tone' Pitch in yes-no questions Anticipated high tone in final position The use of subject prefixes A note on the immediate tense A note on absolute personal pronouns A note on the locative prefixes A note on the copula /ni/ A note on the combination /n/ plus /r/ A procedure for use with substitution drills A procedure for use with transformation drills Vocabulary Supplement Names for members of various ethnic groups Places where people work Some objects which frequently require specification of ownership Unit 2 - Looking for work Dialogues Notes Singular and plural forms of personal nouns Object prefixes Tones of certain nouns borrowed from European languages and Swahili Infinitives Verb forms that contain the root /-zi/ Grammatical dimension of 'linkage' Exercises A procedure for use with practice conversations Practice Conversations Unit 3 - Where do people live and work? Dialogues Notes Alternation of nasal consonants Substantive phrases Alternate forms of concordial prefixes with various adjective stems Locative enclitic /--he/ Subsecutive prefix Vocabulary: Place names Exercises Unit 4 - Getting help in the language Dialogues Notes Use of tone in the Kirundi verb Non-tonal features of negative indicative forms Tones of immediate indicative verbs, affirmative and negative Tonal pattern of certain reduplications Concord used when the antecedent is quoted material Exercises Conversation Practice Unit 5 - Arranging for help in language study Dialogues Notes Object prefixes Adjectives used in noun positions Difference between perfective and imperfective verb stems Translation equivalents of many English adjectives Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 6 - Comparing notes about language study Dialogues Notes Tones of verbs that contain object prefixes Use of different sets of prefixes with the same noun stem Comparisons of inequality Verbs in Sentences 8 and 11 Exercises Conversations Unit 7 - Family relationships Dialogues Vocabulary: Kinship terms Notes Tones of words used with /na'/ 'and, with' Ordinal numerals Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 8 - More about family relationships I Dialogues Notes Pronunciation of /miroongo/ before vowels Vowel length in constructions with /na/ plus a numeral Possessives used without nouns Tone of the copular /'ni/ and /'si/ Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 9 - More about family relationships II Dialogues Notes Participial verb forms, immediate, affirmative Exercies Practice Conversations Unit 10 - Review Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 11 - Getting street directions Dialogues Notes Imperatives Copular forms used in specifying locations Negative imperative Exercises Conversations Unit 12 - More street directions Dialogues Notes Relative verb forms Relative pronouns Exercises Unit 13 - Planning a short trip Dialogues Notes Non-immediate future tense Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 14 - Buying food Dialogues Notes Non-indicative negatives Use of relative verb forms in indirect discourse Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 15 - Buying clothing Dialogues Notes Hodiernal tense Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 16 - Buying food at the door Dialogues Notes Tone of words like /irĭgi/ Hesternal past tense Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 17 - Eating Dialogues Notes Autonomous verb forms Infinitive as a substantive Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 18 - Work in the kitchen Dialogues Notes Subjunctive Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 19 - Restaurant and kitchen Dialogues Notes Presentative forms Defective verb /-ri/ Defective verb /-te/ 'to do how?' Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 20 - Review Exercisies Practice Conversations Unit 21 - Caring for children Dialogues Notes Particle /nka-'/ Non-personal possessives Demonstrative series with stem /~rya/ Use of /-riinda/ as the first verb in a phrase Conditional tense Adhortative forms Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 22 - Climate and weather Dialogues Notes Periphrastic progressive Stem extensions Applicative extension Reciprocal stem extension Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 23 - What is in season? Dialogues Notes Persistive tense Inceptive tense Possessive phrases used in noun slots Two contrasting demonstratives The use of Class 8 for mixed antecedents Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 24 - Geography of Burundi Dialogues Notes Verb /-ca/ followed by a participial form Verb /-ba/ followed by a participial form Word /'ni/ plus /uko/ plus a clause Word /kimwé/ Word /hagӑti/~/hagatí/ Exercises Practice Conversations Unit 25 - A visit to a friend's home Dialogues Oral Reading Practice Notes Construction /'ni -ba/ Sentences with /-ri na.../ Abbreviation of personal names Excercises Practice Conversations Unit 26 - Car trouble Dialogues Notes Special use of the verbal extension /-an-/ Vocative use of nouns Construction in which a question is followed by a verb that includes the subsecutive prefix /-ka-/ Extensions in the stem /-kírizia/ Forms that contain two object prefixes Exercises Unit 27 - The government of Burundi Dialogues Notes Method of pluralizing unassimilated French nouns Passive stems The construction 'every ____ years' Use of /na/ which does not correspond to English 'have', 'with' or 'and' Two alternate ways of using Class 18 Exercises Unit 28 - Miscellaneous topics Dialogues Notes and Exercises Unit 29 - Short dialogues Unit 30 - Short texts, with questions and answers Glossary FSI - Kirundi Basic Course - Student Text.pdf Slide Number 1