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| Katia Groupie United States Joined 7080 days ago 42 posts - 43 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 17 of 22 15 August 2005 at 7:08am | IP Logged | ||
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If you have a population of people in your community who are serious practioners of Santeria you may get some help. Santeria is derived from an African religion and the prayers and devotional oracians are in Yoruba. From what I understand, serious practioners try to learn the language. You might be met with some skepticism at first (as practioners tend to be private about their religion) , but if you perhaps inquire and are friendly you may get help. Go to Spiritual Bodega or Botanical (a spirtutual shop) in a Latina neighborhood and you may get some help. Also, you will find some interesting music at many of the shops.
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| Envinyatar Diglot Senior Member Guatemala Joined 5536 days ago 147 posts - 240 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 19 of 22 04 November 2009 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's a public domain FSI Yoruba course here.
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| Biz Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5131 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 20 of 22 12 December 2010 at 7:54am | IP Logged | ||
Also found this website for other languages. Yoruba has just been added too www.dialectcorner.com 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6373 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish | Message 21 of 22 13 December 2010 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, the FSI are apparently out of copyright and are available on ebay for about $10, including the Yoruba.
The Beginning Yoruba from Hippocrene is pretty crappy in my opinion. I bought it but gave up because of the methodology. There is also Colloquial Yoruba with cd's in the Colloquial Series. Also not that good in my opinion. The Colloquial Series is crazy. Assimil is logical and starts with, well, easy stuff. The Colloquial Series starts you off at the airport at psssport control - or at the market in the case of Yoruba, and there's just too much unexplained stuff in the first sentences. It doesn't have to be like that, they could work up to it. Assimil is king! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Muffy Bilingual Diglot Newbie France diylanguage.wordpres Joined 4753 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 22 of 22 30 November 2011 at 11:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Ekaabo!
As a Yoruba woman that speaks no Yoruba (a beg oh! no punish me), why don't you try visiting one of your local churches! Nigerians are very well known in the born again movement, and many Nigerians are fervent Christians and the best way to learn it is to meet a fellow Yoruba worshipping in one of these churches. They would be happy to help you. There are also many Yoruba gospel songs... Check out Yoruba artists like Lara George (gospel), Fela Kuti (Afro beat), Asa ... Nollywood has some crazy Yoruba films, however some subtitles are disastrous. Check out the film: Jenifa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZseREKxt1s (Lara George) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJgf-jRvmfc (Asa) Lyrics in Yoruba and English I have never searched for Yoruba language resources on the net. How hard is it? Have you been able to find anything in the last year? Edited by Muffy on 30 November 2011 at 11:28am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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