Beginner's Nubi

This course is targeted at those who wish to learn to speak Nubi as beginners. The author and his colleagues hope it will help Nubi youths who wish to speak their venerable wazee's language as well as foreign students/researchers who wish to enjoy the unique Arabic-based creole as spoken in the multilingual East African metropoleis. 

Each lesson includes a dialogue text with a sound file (recorded by Yakub Hassan and Zaria Hussein in September 2019) followed by grammatical and cultural notes. 

The dialogue texts of this course are organized basically in parallel with New Express Swahili 『ニューエクスプレス スワヒリ語』by Keiko Takemura 竹村景子 (Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2010), a concise introduction to Swahili for Japanese students. 

❋ This page is (also) under construction. Now you can try <<Lesson 1>> as a sample page. 

Lesson 1. Assalam aleikum. 

Lesson 2. Asma tai Ibrahim.

Lesson 3. Kujura taki fi kefin?

Lesson 4. Tagaagara sunu fi jamia ini?

Lesson 5. Saba, taburua fi jamia?

Lesson 6. Hodi, hodi. Ajuma jua de fi?

Lesson 7. Umbari asha taakul sunu?

Lesson 8. Taakul akil ta minnahar?

Lesson 9. Umbari ana ma ain ita. Kan ita fuwen?

Lesson 10. Ijaza al gija de, taburua nekum fi Bombo?

Lesson 11. Bas al ina bi panda bitala saa kam?

Lesson 12. Wede mayine, ama bulgas. 

Lesson 13. De kisamvu ma fulu. Ebu, keta abur. 

Lesson 14. Taal fi jikoni. 

Lesson 15. Dolde ginadi sunu de fi Kinubi?

Lesson 16. Okelem na ana gal ukti taki Zaitun amil. 

Lesson 17. Takalas asma kalam "Weraba"?

Lesson 18. Malim Solo gikun fijo klas de?

Lesson 19. Zaman gijere ja mshale. 

Lesson 20. Kheir ta sana jedid. 

❋ Below are sound files of Lessons 2-20. 

Lesson 2. sound

Lesson 3. sound

Lesson 4. sound

Lesson 5. sound

Lesson 6. sound

Lesson 7. sound

Lesson 8. sound

Lesson 9. sound

Lesson 10. sound

Lesson 11. sound

Lesson 12. sound

Lesson 13. sound

Lesson 14. sound

Lesson 15. sound

Lesson 16. sound

Lesson 17. sound

Lesson 18. sound

Lesson 19. sound

Lesson 20. sound