The FSI Yoruba Basic Course

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Pronunciation

Pronunciation Discussion

Introduction, pIV
The Vowels of Yoruba, pVII
Nasalized Vowels, pIX
The Consonants of Yoruba, pXI

Pronunciation Drill b vs. gb

a. b vs. gb, pXIV
b. b vs. gb, pXIV
c. b vs. gb, pXIV
d. b vs. gb, pXV

Pronunciation Drill gb vs. p

a. gb vs. p, pXV
b. gb vs. p, pXV
c. gb vs. p, pXV
d. gb vs. p, pXVI
e. gb vs. p, pXVI

Tones

Tone Discussion

The Tones of Yoruba, pXVI
Tonal Differences Among Speakers of Yoruba, pXIX

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Vowel Length, pXIX
Condensation', pXXI

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Tone Drills, pXXI

Tone Drills Series I

1. Low Rise vs. Low Low, p1
2. High Fall vs. High High, p2
3. Low Rise vs. High Fall, p3
4. High High vs. Mid High, p5
5. High Mid vs. Mid Mid, p7
6. Mid Mid vs. Low Mid, p9
7. High High vs. High Mid, p11
8. Mid High vs. Mid Mid, p13
9. Mid Mid vs. Mid Low, p15
10. Low Mid vs. Low Low, p17

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11. Mid High vs. Low Rise, p19
12. High Fall vs. Mid Low, p22
13. Mid Low vs. Low Low, p24
14. High Mid vs. High Fall, p26
15. Low Rise vs. Low Mid, p28
16. Mid High vs. Low Mid, p30
17. High Mid vs. Mid Low, p32
18. High High vs. Mid Mid, p34
19. Mid Mid vs. Low Low, p36
20. Review, p39

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21. One mora vs. two, level pitch, p40
22. One mora vs. two, glides, p42
23. High Mid vs. High Second, p44
24. Rise vs. Fall in larger context, p46
25. High Rise High vs. High Mid High, p47
26. High Mid High vs. High Second High, p47
27. High High Fall vs. High X Low, p48
28. Low vs. Fall, p48
29. High Mid vs. High X, p48
30. Alternating Rises and Falls, p49

Tone Drills Series II

Tone contrasts on two-more vowels
1. Low-RISE LOW-Mid vs. Low-LOW LOW-Mid, p53
2. Low-HIGH LOW-Mid vs. Low-MID LOW-Mid, p53
3. Combination of Drills 1 and 2, p54
4. Extension of Drill 3 to segmentally diverse utterances, p54
5. Mid-HIGH LOW-Mid vs. Mid-MID LOW-Mid, p55
6. Mid-MID LOW-Mid vs. Mid-LOW LOW-Mid, p55
7. Extension of Drills 5 and 6 to segmentally diverse utterances, p55
8. Combination of all preceding drills, p56
9. High-HIGH LOW-Mid vs. High-MID LOW-Mid, p56
10. High-FALL LOW-Mid vs. High-MID LOW-Mid, p57

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11. High-HIGH LOW-Mid vs. High-FALL LOW-Mid, p57
12. Combination of Drills 9, 10 and 11, p57
13. Extension of Drill 12 to segmentally diverse utterances, p58
14. Mid-HIGH MID-Mid vs. Mid-MID MID-Mid, p58
15. Mid-MID MID-Mid vs. Mid-LOW MID-Mid, p58
16. Combination of Drills 14 and 15, p58
17. Mid-HIGH MID-Low vs. Mid-MID MID-Low, p59
18. Mid-MID MID-Low vs. Mid-LOW MID-Low, p59
19. Extension of Drills 17 and 18 to segmentally diverse utterances, p59

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20. Mid-MID LOW-Mid vs. Mid-MID MID-Low, p60
21. Mid-HIGH LOW-Mid vs. Mid-HIGH MID-Low, p60
22. Extension of Drills 20 and 21, p60
23. Low-RISE MID-Low vs. Low-MID MID-Low, p61
24. High-SECOND MID-Mid vs. High-SECOND SECOND-Mid, p61
25. High-MID MID-Low vs. High-SECOND SECOND-Low, p61
26. High-HIGH MID-Low vs. High-MID MID-Low, p62
27. High-SECOND LOW-Mid vs. High-MID LOW-Mid, p62
28. High-SECOND MID-Low vs. High-MID MID-Low, p63
29. High-SECOND Low-Mid vs. High-FALL LOW-Mid, p63

Tone Drills Series III

1, p64
2, p65
3, p65

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4, p66
5, p66
6, p67

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7, p68
8, p69
9, p70

Unit 1

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p73
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p73
C. Exercises, p75
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p75
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p76

Unit 2

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p77
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p77
C. Exercises, p79
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p80
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p80
D. Supplementary Material Part 3, p80

Unit 3

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p81
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p81
C. Exercises, p83
D. Supplementary Material, p84

Unit 4

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p85
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p85
C. Exercises Part 1, p87
C. Exercises Part 2, p87
D. Supplementary Material, p89

Unit 5

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p90
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p90
C. Exercises Part 1, p93
C. Exercises Part 2, p93
D. Supplementary Material, p94

Unit 6

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p95
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p95
C. Exercises Part 1, p97
C. Exercises Part 2, p97
D. Supplementary Material, p98

Unit 7

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p99
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p99
C. Exercises Part 1, p101
C. Exercises Part 2, p102
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p103
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p103
D. Supplementary Material Part 3, p104

Unit 8

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p104
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p104
C. Exercises Part 1, p106
C. Exercises Part 2, p106
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p107
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p108

Unit 9

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p108
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p108
C. Exercises Part 1, p110
C. Exercises Part 2, p111
D. Supplementary Material, p111

Unit 10

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p112
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p112
C. Exercises Part 1, p114
C. Exercises Part 2, p115
C. Exercises Part 3, p116
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p116
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p118

Unit 11

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p120
A. Basic Diague for Fluency, p120
C. Exercises Part 1, p121
C. Exercises Part 2, p122
C. Exercises Part 3, p122
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p123
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p124

Unit 12

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p125
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p125
C. Exercises Part 1, p127
C. Exercises Part 2, p127
C. Exercises Part 3, p128
C. Exercises Part 4, p128
D. Supplementary Material, p129

Unit 13

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p130
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p130
C. Exercises Part 1, p132
C. Exercises Part 2, p133
C. Exercises Part 3, p133
C. Exercises Part 4, p133
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p134
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p135

Unit 14

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p136
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p136
C. Exercises, p138
D. Supplementary Material, p138

Unit 15

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p139
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p139
C. Exercises, p141
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p142
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p142

Unit 16

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p143
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p143
C. Exercises Part 1, p145
C. Exercises Part 2, p145
C. Exercises Part 3, p146
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p147
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p147

Unit 17

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p148
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p148
C. Exercises Part 1, p149
C. Exercises Part 2, p150
D. Supplementary Material, p150

Unit 18

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p157
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p157
C. Exercises Part 1, p159
C. Exercises Part 2, p160
D. Supplementary Material Part 1, p160
D. Supplementary Material Part 2, p161

Unit 19

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p162
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p162
C. Exercises, p164

Unit 20

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p166
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p166
C. Exercises, p167
D. Supplementary Material, p168

Unit 21

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p171
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p171
C. Exercises, p173

Unit 22

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p174
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p174
C. Exercises, p177

Unit 23

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p179
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p179
C. Exercises, p180

Unit 24

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p181
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p181
C. Exercises, p183

Unit 25

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p185
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p185
C. Exercises, p186

Unit 26

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p188
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p188
C. Exercises, p190

Unit 27

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p192
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p192
C. Exercises, p194

Unit 28

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p195
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p195
C. Exercises, p197

Unit 29

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p198
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p198
C. Exercises, p200

Unit 30

A. Review, p202

Unit 31

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p204
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p204
C. Exercises, p206

Unit 32

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p208
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p208
C. Exercises, p210

Unit 33

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p212
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p212
C. Exercises, p214

Unit 34

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p215
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p215
C. Exercises, p217

Unit 35

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p218
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p218
C. Exercises, p220

Unit 36

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p221
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p221
C. Exercises, p223

Unit 37

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p224
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p224
C. Exercises, p226

Unit 38

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p227
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p227
C. Exercises, p229

Unit 39

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p231
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p231
C. Exercises, p233

Unit 40

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p234
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p234
C. Exercises, p237

Unit 41

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p238
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p238
C. Exercises, p240

Unit 42

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p242
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p242
C. Exercises, p244
C. Exercises (cont'd), p244

Unit 43

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p247
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p247
List of Monetary Terms, p249
C. Exercises, p250

Unit 44

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p252
A. Basic Dialogue for Fluency, p252
Names of some kinds of edible animals, p254
C. Exercises, p254

Unit 45

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p256
C. Exercises, p257

Unit 46

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p258
C. Exercises, p259

Unit 47

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p261
C. Exercises, p263

Unit 48

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p265

Unit 49

A. Basic Dialogue for Learning, p267