Audio files for the following languages: Akan / Twi, Bambara, Hausa, Swahili, Luganda, Shona und Wolof. The following languages have restricted access. Zulu (only pronouns and class exercises), Sesotho (Southern Sotho) and Setswana. You have to download and install a security software to use them (the Culture Capsules also have restricted access). Unfortunately, most of the audio files have no bibliography, accompanying texts or translations, so that you can only listen to the examples, dialogues or stories read aloud. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The African Studies Program at the Indiana University offers a lot of resources for the study of African languages. The "African language materials" under "IUB Language Lab" and the "Folk Tales and Songs" are freely accessible. They offer audiofiles and texts (oral literature, lyrics of songs) for the following languages: Bambara / Bamanankan, Zulu, Swahili, Twi / Akan, Wolof, Yoruba, Xhosa, Shona, Afrikaans, Amharic, Hausa, Southern Sotho / Sesotho, Tswana, Luganda. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Although the site has a lot of ads, the basic vocabulary you can learn from there is useful. Some languages also have audio examples. The quiz or exercise is also a nice feature whereby you can put your vocabulary knowledge to a test. The following African languages are available: Dagaare, Luganda, Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Swahili, Tswana, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Free basic vocabulary for Swahili (625 words), Tswana (160), Yoruba (111), Zulu (655) (translated into German). With the according vocabulary trainer programm of Langenscheidt (subject to a fee) you can also use this vocabulary in an interactive way. [editors ilissAfrica]
Different resources for Bantu languages, including a search engine, audio samples and a dictionary with basic vocabulary: French/English - Lingala / Kituba (Munukutuba). [editors ilissAfrica]
Homepage of Prof. Schuh, wrote wrote the famous "Spoken Hausa" textbook together with Cowan. This site offers you very extensive resources, different websites about projects and languages, many full text documents and audio and video files. Schuh's focus is on Chadic languages. [editors ilissAfrica]
Information about some South African languages, about Swahili and Ciluba (Luba-Kasai) (Congo-Kinshasa). For Swahili, Sheng and Northern Sotho / Sepedi, you will find a dictionary. Besides general information (location, number of speakers etc.) there are poems or short stories, links to radio transmitters, infos on characters for the computer or books about the respective languages. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Site of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Vocabulary cllassed by topic for Igbo, Swahili, Shona, Twi, Wolof, Yoruba, Zulu including audio samples. At the moment, only Shona, Twi, Wolof, and Zulu are working (08/09/08). For Zulu, there are songs with the songtext and the alphabet with a lot of audio samples especially for the clicks. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
This site is aimed at students of African Studies or Anthropology as well as at development workers and missionaries who plan to travel to and stay for some time in Northern Nigeria or Southern Niger. The site is for intermediate learners with some previous knowledge in Hausa. The course teaches how to read and understand easy texts and texts of medium difficulty. ... [according to site editor's information]
Online dictionary for the Hausa language, created by the German African linguits Dr. Uwe Seibert. It is possible to look for English-Hausa, German-Hausa or Hausa-English/German. The dictionary recognizes words written without the accents or without the right length of vowls. Implosives are written with an accent after the respective consonant. ... [according to site editor's information]