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Chewa (Nyanja)

A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

39 lessons

Lesson 1While English uses Lesson 2be Lesson 3ndi Lesson 4a Lesson 5 Lesson 6ku Lesson 7 Lesson 8I Lesson 9 Lesson 10it Lesson 11have Lesson 12to go, Lesson 13that Lesson 14for Lesson 15kuchita Lesson 16 Lesson 17with, Lesson 18onse Lesson 19this Lesson 20not Lesson 21 Lesson 22 Lesson 23but Lesson 24 Lesson 25to say, Lesson 26at, Lesson 27 Lesson 28 Lesson 29 Lesson 30 Lesson 31 Lesson 32 Lesson 33 Lesson 34she Lesson 35 Lesson 36 Lesson 37other Lesson 38 Lesson 39