Recordings of Bible stories and christian songs in Hausa and other less commonly taught languages can be found at the website of Global Recordings Network (GRN), a Christian organisation that wants to “communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ, through audio recordings, to all peoples in their own language.”Here is a link to one of the Hausa recordings:
A great place to look for Hausa audio files — and other Hausa-related materials — is Dandali, a Hausa website run by some Hausa speakers, including Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu, a Professor of Science Education and Curriculum Studies of Bayero University Kano (BUK).
Just to give you a small taste of what can be found there, click on the following:
Bukin zagayowar ranar mata ta duniya a kasar Nijar
Kamar dai ranar takwas ga watan Maris na kowace skekara, ko a bana mata a sassa daban daban na duniya sun gudanar da shagulgula a ranar ta takwas ga watan na Maris domin murnar zagayowar wannan rana da majalisar dinkin duniya ta kebe masu. A shekarar bana dai kamar sauran shekaru, kungiyoyin mata a kasashen duniya daban daban sun yi amfani da wannan rana, domin yin bitar irin matsaloli ko kuma cigaban da suka sama a cikin rayuwar su. (continue reading)
Happy women’s day to all the hard-working women in Africa and elsewhere!
I have just come across Ina Mafita, a new weblog for speakers and writers of Hausa and other languages spoken in Niger Republic. Its motto is: “Rubutu a cikin harsunan gida”. So far, there are only few posts, but it looks like there is more to come. I will subscribe to their RSS-Feed and hope to read more in future.
I just found out that this my Hausa learning blog is currently used as an example in a course for language teachers at Columbia University in New York State. As an assignment, the course participants were asked to examine three different language websites or software applications:
one from the perspective of a LANGUAGE LEARNER (choose a language that you don’t know)
one from the perspective of a LANGUAGE TEACHER (choose the target language of your students)
one from the perspective of a LANGUAGE EXPERT (look for some behaviorist characteristics)
They were asked to post their reflections on the course’s online discussion board. Unfortunately, I do not have access to their reflections on this blog, if there are any.
Would you like to write Hausa materials? Are you having difficulties with the Hausa special characters? On the website “Teaching and Learning with Technology" at Penn State University you can find some useful suggestions for writing Hausa and other less commonly taught languages. In addition, they provide many useful links to other websites where you can download special character fonts, keyboard utilities and other useful things.
Posted by hausaonline on Friday, December 28, 2007
The new (Dec 07/Jan 0 edition of the Magama magazine has just appeared. It is a special edition on education (Ilimi). Magama can be ordered by email from the US embassy in Nigeria. At their website, there is also an archive of the older editions of Magama.
Last year, on this weblog, I posted a simplified Hausa version of the story of Jesus’ birth, as it is written in the Bible in the gospel of Luke, chapter 2. Read it
Posted by hausaonline on Sunday, November 25, 2007
Are you looking for course and self-study material in Hausa or some other less commonly taught language? A good place to start looking for it is at LangSource, a searchable database for language resources offered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. Currently, the LangSource catalogue offers resources in Arabic, Chinese, German, Hausa, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Quechua, Spanish, Tamil, and Yoruba.
They have also developed LangNet, “a state-of-the-art online foreign language learning and maintenance system”. In a message on the H-Hausa discussion list, they have recently asked for educated Hausa speakers who are willing to contribute to a new Hausa project. Part of this would be creating online activities for Hausa learners.
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