Twi
Level 1
Basic Course
Foreign Service Institute
Department of State
The Course Used by Diplomats
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This FSI Audio-Forum® Course Features:
* 5.6 hours of audio, 20 units
* 240-page text
* Tone terracing and sentence intonation
* Tone and length drills
* Basic dialog and conversation
* Vowels, pronouns, and noun plurals
* Grammar notes and writing awareness
* Lexical and sentence drills
* Substitution and combination drills
* Grammatical drills
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About the Language
Twi (also known as Akan) belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. It is the principal native language of the Akan regions of southern Ghana, with over 9 million native speakers, and is also spoken in Cote d'Ivoire and Benin. It is a tone language, each syllable in a word having its own tone or pitch. Three dialects have developed as literary standards: Asante, Akuapem (together called Twi), and Fante. Although the spoken forms were mutually intelligible, the written forms historically were not understood by speakers of the other dialects; thus, a common writing system for all of Akan was established in 1978.
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System Requirements for Enhanced PDF Features
Mac® OS X® 10.5 & up
Intel® processor
512 MB RAM
Windows® 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP
233 MHz or faster processor
128 MB RAM