Overview of the Luganda Basic Course

The Luganda Basic Course is divided into 94 Lessons, many of which are composed of dialogues, notes, and supplemental vocabulary. The course assumes the student has no prior knowledge of Luganda and is fully self-instructional. This means that while an instructor/native speaker would be helpful, it is not imperative to learn Luganda with this course. There are 10 CDs and a 384 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the textbook in a PDF file format.

Lesson 1: 'What's your name?'

Lesson 2: "What's his name?'

Lesson 3: 'Where are you from?'

Lesson 4: 'I don't know.'

Lesson 5: 'Yes, no, isn't.'

Lesson 6: [Wangi?]

Lesson 7: 'Do you understand?'

Lesson 8: 'Is that so?'

Lesson 9: Present indicative negative

Lesson 10: 'is a'

Lesson 11: 'What part of Uganda is it in?'

Lesson 12: Talking about places in Uganda

Lesson 13: Talking about Places in Uganda

Lesson 14: Morning greeting

Lesson 15: Midday or evening greeting

Lesson 16: Continuation of the greeting sequence

Lesson 17: Equational sentences for first, second and third person, singular

Lesson 18: Personal pronouns, plural

Lesson 19: Questions and answers with the verb [-beera]

Lesson 20: Oral test

Lesson 21: 'Where do you live?'

Lesson 22: Dialog 1: Getting acquainted.

Lesson 23: A series of everyday activities

Lesson 24: More everyday activities

Lesson 25: Dialog 2: Getting acquainted. Titles of address

Lesson 26: Hours of the day

Lesson 27: Present indicative negative with the verbs of Lesson 23 & 24

Lesson 28: Dialog 3: Getting acquainted. Adjective as nucleus of sentence

Lesson 29: Times of day connected with appropriate activities

Lesson 30: Minutes after the hour

Lesson 32: 'What is this?'

Lesson 33: Perfective indicative affirmative

Lesson 34: Dialog 5: Getting Acquainted. Perfective indicative negative

Lesson 35: 'To have', affirmative and negative

Lesson 36: 'There is"

Lesson 37: Dialog 6: Getting Aquainted. Concord of numerals with nouns

Lesson 38: Text 1: Cities of Uganda: Kampala

Lesson 39: Classroom activities

Lesson 40: Parts of the day

Lesson 41: Dialog 7: Getting acquainted.

Lesson 42: Text 2: Cities of Uganda: Masindi

Lesson 43: Near past indicative affirmative

Lesson 44: Near past indicative negative

Lesson 45: Dialog 8: Getting accquainted.

Lesson 46: Text 3: Cities of Uganda: Mbarara

Lesson 47: Dropping the initial vowel in the negative

Lesson 48: Far past indicative affirmative

Lesson 49: Dialog 9: Getting acquainted

Lesson 50: Text 4: Cities of Uganda: Soroti

Lesson 51: Far past indicative negative

Lesson 52: New vocabulary

Lesson 53: Dialog 10: 'Is the master at home?'

Lesson 54: Text 5: Cities of Uganda: Mbale

Lesson 55: Object infixes with the present tense

Lesson 56: Imperatives

Lesson 57: Dialog 11: 'Is the master at home?'

Lesson 58: Text 6: Cities of Uganda: Jjinja

Lesson 59: Subjunctives

Lesson 61: Dialog 12: 'Is the mistress at home?'

Lesson 62: Text 7: Cities of Uganda: Fort Portal

Lesson 63: Near future indicative affirmative

Lesson 64: Near future with object infixes

Lesson 65: Dialog 13: Leaving a message

Lesson 66: Text 8: Cities of Uganda: Masaka

Lesson 67: Near future indicative negative

Lesson 68: General future

Lesson 69: Dialog 14: Greetings after a long absence

Lesson 70: Text 9: Cities of Uganda: Mityana

Lesson 71: General future indicative negative

Lesson 72: The suffix [-nga] within near future

Lesson 73: Dialog 15: 'Fish or meat?' 'Let's'.....

Lesson 74: Text 10: Eating schedules in Buganda.

Lesson 75: Future imperative

Lesson 76: Future imperative negative ('thou shalt never')

Lesson 77: Dialog 16: 'What a pretty place!'

Lesson 78: Text 11: The difference between [enva] and [emmere]

Lesson 79: Subjuntive negative construction with [-lema]

Lesson 80: Subject copula

Lesson 81: Dialog 17: 'What is there to eat?'

Lesson 82: Text 12: Eating schedules again

Lesson 83: Adjectives

Lesson 84: Negative relative

Lesson 85: Dialog 18: 'What shall we eat?'

Lesson 86: Text 13: Eating schedules again.

Lesson 87: The TU class

Lesson 88: 'Have never!'

Lesson 89: Dialog 19: 'Let's eat'

Lesson 90: Text 14: Travel between Kampala and Entebbe

Lesson 91: The verb [-were] 'amount to'

Lesson 92: Duration of time

Lesson 93: Dialog 20: 'Do you eat matooke?'

Lesson 94: Text 15: Travel between Entebbe and Kampala

Luganda, sometimes known as Ganda, is a major language of Uganda, spoken by over ten million people mainly in Southern Uganda which includes the Ugandan capital Kampala. It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo language family.

With about six million first-language speakers in the Buganda region and about four million others with a working knowledge, it is the most widely spoken Ugandan language, and as second language in Uganda is next to English. The language is used in some primary schools in Buganda as pupils begin to learn English, the official language of Uganda. Until the 1960s Luganda was also the official language of instruction in Primary schools in Eastern Uganda.