This is an opportunity for any sensible person who desire to speak and even write Yoruba very well.
This is how it goes: At the end of every lesson there shall be an assignment to be taken by the students.
Such answers shall be mailed to arckola05@yahoo.co.uk for corrections.If any desires his/her corrections to be done on this thread
or on any given e-mail address the person should consider it done.
This thread is mainly for learning please THANK YOU ALL

LESSON ONE
Parts of the body------------------------Awon eya ara

HEAD ---------------- ORI
EYE --------------- OJU
EAR --------------- ETI
NOSE --------------- IMU
MOUTH --------------- ENU
LIP -------------------- ETE
UPPER LIP --------- ETE OKE upper means oke
LOWER LIP --------- ETE ISALE lower means isale
NECK ------------ ORUN
ARM ---------------- APA
LEG -------------- ESE
RIGHT means OTUN
LEFT means OSIN
FRONT means IWAJU
BACK means EYIN / EHIN
WHAT means KI NI?
WHY means KILODE or KI NI IDI?
REASON means IDI
WHERE means NIBO
HOW MANY means ME LO

Assignment
1. What is apa otun?
2. What is ese osin?
3. What is enu for?
4. Me lo ni eti?
5. Where is orun?

Oluko ,Left is 'osi', not 'osin'

thank you so much for the opportunity.
you are wonderful.

E Se Gan Kola! 

I desire to do mine on the thread, this is a great help

Assignment
1. What is apa otun?
2. What is ese osin?
3. What is enu for?
4. Me lo ni eti?
5. Where is orun?

Answers
1. Right Arm
2. Left Leg
3. Mouth is for talking and eating
4. Means How many ears and there are two
6. Neck is below the Head

Below i smine, The same speeling but different meaning
OK
OKO Stone
OKO Penis
OKO Husband
OkO Farm
OB
OBO Pussy (this has a small dot under d 'O')
OBO Monkey
ILE
ILE------Home
ILE------Floor

And more

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Nice thread, make una continue now

watin be ---WERE--- ?

I suspect is goat

it great to still ve pple like u still proud of been a yoruba man but not an american man

Kola where you dey now?

oluko what is ekule in english.

its almost impossible to learn just by reading it like this, some words are spelt exactly the same but sounds different. pronunciation is the koko.

ma lo----go
ma lo----don't go

ogun----state
ogun----medicine
ogun-----will
ogun-----twenty
ogun-----war

ibkaye:

Kola where you dey now?

Sorry for not been around.Am fully back now.

dominique:

its almost impossible to learn just by reading it like this, some words are spelt exactly the same but sounds different. pronunciation is the koko.

ma lo----go
ma lo----don't go

ogun----state
ogun----medicine
ogun-----will
ogun-----twenty
ogun-----war

There is a way i think we are going to solve this challenge.We need to work on it seriously.

Please note the following:

\     d:     
r:    (it has no symbol),   
/   m:   
\ / v: (it is usually used in this type of a case below)
               
                               / \/
Police  ,------       Olopaa ,-----             r:m:v


Let us note the following
\  \
ogun   (d:d) -----  ,  state.               Your pitch here is low (down)

     /
ogun  (r:m)-----   ,  twenty / will.      Your pitch here is high (up)

ogun  (r:r)-----    ,  war.

As time goes on we shall be going deeper on this.

LESSON TWO
Note the following:

I means emi (d:r)
You ------ Iwo (d:r)
We ------- Awa (d:r)
Male ------ Okunrin (r:d:r)
Female----- Obirin (r:d:r)
He --------- Arakunrin (r:m:d:r)
She -------- Arabirin (r:m:d:r)
Small ------- Kere /kekere (m;m)
Big ------- Nla /Nila (m:m)

Assignment
Transliteration
1. Ki ni oju nla?
2. Apa kekere
3. Enu nla
4. Me lo ni ete
5. Iwaju ori

@kano shawty
u're here? no long thing

@Teacher
pls kindly fi ami si awon gbolohun yen to make sense

thank u TB

Tattooboy:


@Teacher
please kindly fi ami si awon gbolohun yen to make sense

thank u TB

OK.I will do that as soon as possible

LESSON TWO

Assignment
Transliteration
      /       /  /  /
1. Ki ni oju  nla?

       /   /    /
2. Apa kekere

          / /
3.  Enu nla

      /   \/    \  \
4.  Me lo ni  ete

        /  /   /
5.  Iwaju ori

May be i should simplify it further

LESSON TWO

Assignment
Transliteration
/ / / /
1. Ki ni oju nla? m: r: r:m m:m?

/ / /
2. Apa kekere r:m m:r:m

/ /
3. Enu nla r:r m:m

/ \/ \ \
4. Me lo ni ete m: v: r: d:d

/ / /
5. Iwaju ori r:m:m r:m

EXPO
Go through lesson one again for easiest way out.
Never forget this: you can ask any question but not on the assignment given.

Are the students on break?

No they've dropped out.

Lazy students, they need to be caned six strokes each.

Kola

Good thread and thanks!

I don't understand the method to show how words should be pronounced though. Maybe you could try spelling out the words phonetically to help.

EloSela:

Kola

Good thread and thanks!

I don't understand the method to show how words should be pronounced though. Maybe you could try spelling out the words phonetically to help.

Your suggesstion is very good.
I would look into it and see what we can do to make it easiest.

Is there a company that you would reccommend that I can buy a CD or DVD from to learn to speak Yoruba. I would love to surprise my husband and speak in his native tounge.

Thanks

sistawoman:

Is there a company that you would reccommend that I can buy a CD or DVD from to learn to speak Yoruba. I would love to surprise my husband and speak in his native tounge.

Thanks

I haven't come across any but i shall make an enquiry on your behalf.

kola oloye:

I haven't come across any but i shall make an enquiry on your behalf.

Thanks. I learn best from hearing the languange then by reading it and trying to learn it.

Ose kola. your idea is great. Keep it up.

Cheers!

aluko kola ofe for ori wa ni kin gbogbo jajatiti yi ofe so fu wa pe o lo si ilewe giga lati ka ede Yoruba
Owa ni ise ko to wa ko awa lori net kilode ti ewon se wasti talenti
(Are u trying 2 tell us that u went 2 the university to study Yoruba and could not find a place of occupation, so not lossing ur talent u dicide coming online wat a ginus u r )

To help those who bearly no how 2 speak nor 2 come talk of reading, 2 understand ur slangs attach a voice giude expressing wat u are saying on every post

I have an idea, I think jlee is crazy
You've just posted shit. What do you mean? Someone is trying to be of help and you are here opening your mouth anyhow. So ara re o!

Its not actualy about me being crazy here its the fact am try 2 point out to kola here cos no niga would definitly do a thing 4 charity without expecting somthn in return even if not directly.

Cos i see it like his try 2 use nairaland as a forum for advert 4 his talent so he can get an application somwh

Any way kola i ve found a place 4 u, surely u will definitly get paid wel