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Yoruba
Save Yoruba as a language-learning interest while level-specific, reviewed instruction is developed.
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- reviewer identity, qualification, evidence, and approval date are required
- yoruba-a1-dialogues: required audio asset is not ready
- yoruba-a1-tone-pronunciation: required audio asset is not ready
What this course establishes
- Read and write introductory Yoruba with meaning-bearing underdots and tone marks
- Exchange greetings, names, origin, residence, and languages with context-appropriate address
- State non-understanding and request repetition, slower speech, written form, or confirmation
Entry knowledge
- No prior Yoruba required
- Ability to display or access an alternative to Latin text with underdots and tone marks
Scope boundaries
- A1-oriented Standard Yoruba interaction only; not full tonal phonology, assimilation, elision, grammar, literature, regional-variety, interpretation, translation, fluency, certification, college-credit, or professional mastery
Fastest competency route
No fluency or fastest-hour guarantee; acceleration depends on demonstrated listening, speaking, reading, writing, interaction, tone, orthography, address, grammar, meaning, and repair.
- Pass orthography, tone-mark, underdot, address, pronoun, and progressive-marker diagnostics after approved audio exists
- Complete greeting, identity, location, language, and repair performances
- Correct tone, spelling, meaning, address, grammar, and interaction errors in a final portfolio
Full self-paced route
- Orthography, tone, pronunciation, greetings, address, and approved audio
- Identity, origin, residence, languages, pronouns, locatives, and progressive marking
- Clarification, written form, and confirmation
- Portfolio, feedback, revision, and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
Àkọtọ́, àmì ohùn, àti ìkíni
Read and write introductory greetings and names with correct underdots, tone marks, and contextual address.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Ìbílẹ̀, ibùgbé, àti èdè
Exchange stated origin, residence, and languages using introductory pronouns, locatives, and the progressive marker.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Ìbéèrè àlàyé àti ìmúdájú
State non-understanding and request repetition, slower speech, written form, or confirmation.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
Yoruba introductory interaction portfolio
Create greeting, identity, and repair interactions with fully tone-marked Yoruba, underdots, functional English meanings, address and regional labels, and revision. Listening and pronunciation remain unscored until qualified audio is approved.
- Familiar and respectful/plural greeting/name exchanges
- Origin, residence, and language exchange with pronoun, locative, and progressive-marker notes
- Repair exchange with matched request, written-form check, and confirmation
- Line-by-line functional English meaning plus tone, orthography, address, and grammar notes
- Pronunciation evidence tied to approved audio when available
- Revision memo correcting a substantive language problem
Passing standard: 80 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- Qualified-speaker listening and pronunciation across documented regions and communities
- Tone, vowel harmony, nasal vowels, syllable structure, elision, assimilation, pronouns, tense-aspect markers, negation, serial verbs, and focus
- Reading, writing, conversation, oral literature, and cultural practice with community-authored sources
- Academic or professional Yoruba with independently validated assessment