Hausa Online

Some ideas for learning Hausa (and other less commonly taught languages) using the Internet

Bible stories and christian songs in Hausa and other less commonly taught languages

Posted by useibert on Wednesday, April 2, 2008

grn.jpg

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:

Can you recognize which story is told?

You can find more audio files at the website of Global Recordings Network

Posted in Hausa, LCTL | Tagged: , | 3 Comments »

Dandali: Good place for Hausa Audio files

Posted by hausaonline on Monday, March 24, 2008

Dandali - Dandali - Audio

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:

Go and visit Dandali for more.

Posted in Hausa | Tagged: , | No Comments »

Bukin ranar mata ta duniya

Posted by hausaonline on Saturday, March 8, 2008

Today is international women’s day. On a website run by Groupe Alternative Niger in French and Hausa, I found the following Hausa text (published in 2005) on this topic:

Bukin zagayowar ranar mata ta duniya a kasar Nijar

african_women.jpgKamar 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!

(Picture: © Kunstzirkus/ PIXELIO)

Posted in Hausa | Tagged: | No Comments »

New kids on the blog: Ina Mafita

Posted by hausaonline on Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Ina_mafita

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.

Posted in Hausa | Tagged: , | No Comments »

Is Hausa Online useful for language teaching?

Posted by hausaonline on Friday, February 8, 2008

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.

Students, please post your comments about this blog and give me some input how I could improve it!

Posted in Hausa, LCTL | Tagged: , | No Comments »

Computing with Hausa

Posted by hausaonline on Sunday, January 20, 2008

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 in Hausa | Tagged: , | No Comments »

Barka da sabuwar shekara

Posted by useibert on Tuesday, January 1, 2008

fireworks_2008.jpg

Photo: © bikemen / PIXELIO

I wish a blessed, healthy, peaceful, and successful year 2008 to all the readers of Hausa Online.

Uwe Seibert

Posted in Hausa | 4 Comments »

Special edition of Magama

Posted by hausaonline on Friday, December 28, 2007

magama

The new (Dec 07/Jan 0 8) 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.

Posted in Hausa | Tagged: , | No Comments »

Bukin Kirismetti tsakanin al´umomi daban daban a Bonn

Posted by hausaonline on Thursday, December 20, 2007

Bukin Kirismetti tsakanin al´umomi daban daban a Bonn | Zamantakewa | Deutsche Welle | 20.12.2007Under the rubric “Zamantakewa” of Radio Deutsche Welle you can find a Hausa article about Christmas and other religious festivals in Germany . Click on the screenshot to the left in order to read it.

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 in Hausa | Tagged: , , , | No Comments »

LangSource and LangNet - two valuable resources for LCTLs

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.

Here is a link to their message

Posted in Hausa, LCTL | Tagged: , | No Comments »