Overview of the Igbo Basic Course
The Igbo Basic Course consists of four parts: tone drills;
units 1-24 covering dialogues, notes, and drills; units 25-30 covering dialogues
and short narratives; and vocabulary. The dialogues are presented in four columns headed pronunciation,
structure, spelling and English.The course assumes the student has no prior knowledge of Igbo and is fully
self-instructional. This means that while an instructor/native speaker would be helpful, it is not imperative to
learn Igbo with this course. There are 21 CDs and a 512 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the
textbook in a PDF file format.
Unit 1: Good morning. Have you awakened. Where are you going? I want to go to the market.
Unit 2: Greetings. Hello, how are you? We're well. Are you en route to work?
Unit 3: Greetings! Have you begun to work? Yes, my friend. I went to Umuahia
Unit 4: Did you go the market? Did you do the laundry? to eat, to drink, to want, to buy....
Unit 5: Are they going to cook eggs? Are you going outside? Is he going to read?
Unit 6: What is this person doing? I thought he was drinking palm wine
Unit 7: What are you selling? How much for how many. Negotiation and currency exchange.
Unit 8:Where are we now? We are at Orlu. Owerri is still far from here
Unit 9: Entertaining in-laws, you go to the market and buy vegetables, fish, meat, tomatoes and melons/i>
Unit 10: Going to the post office, mailing a parcel
Unit 11: Going to the hospital, a friends wife had a baby
Unit 12: What do you want to eat and drink. Chicken and rice< with milk.
Unit 13: Going to the river to catch fish
Unit 14: Hello, I have not seen you in a long time, how have you been?
Unit 15: Times of the day. Arranging a time to meet, noon is not good, how about in the evening, at 7?
Unit 16: I want to eat cassava meal and gumbo soup.
Unit 17: Inquiring about the cassava meals
Unit 18: Times of the week
Unit 19: Dealing with scarcity and poverty
Unit 20: Discussion over cooking lunch
Unit 21: Go see who is knocking at the door
Unit 22: Getting your hair cut and buying cigarettes
Unit 23: Do you live in the hotel? How much do you owe?
Unit 24: Greetings to you here! Who is it? It is I. Welcoming friends
Unit 25: How are you my friend? I'm an American. Welcome, what is your name.
Unit 26: Going to buy home furniture, and dealing with theft
Unit 27: Going to visit friends
Unit 28: to wait, stop and hold. Hold it, I'll set down the wine I'm carrying first
Unit 29: Dealing with a flat tire, and crashing a car
Unit 30: School lets out. The day is over. People are returning from work
Igbo is based on the speech of two members of the Ezinehite group of Igbos in the central Owerri
Province between the towns of Owerri and Umuahia, eastern Nigeria. The essential phological and
grammatical structure of Igbo is presented within a small vocabulary.
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