Thank you for showing interest in learning this language, you have made the right dicision to study with us. we are going to take you step by step through out this program. Your fisrt lesson will be to get familiar  with the alphabets.


The Hausa alphabet consists of 29 letters, as shown below,
  Here are some of the letters you need to get familiar to it, and how to pronounce them.

LETTER

SOUNDS LIKE (IN ENGLISH)

short: 'a' in cat
long: 'a' in father

'b in bee

'ch' in child

'd' in dog

short: 'e' in get
long: English letter 'a'

a

b

c

d

a

'sh' in shout

sh

ENGLISH PHRASE

HAUSA PHRASE

Hello

Good Morning

Good Day

Good afternoon

Good evening

Good night

Good night (until tomorrow)

Goodbye

Sannu
Barka da safe
Barka da rana
Barka da yamma
Barka da yamma
Mu kwana lafiya
Sai gobe
Sai an jima
Don Allah
Na gode
I
A'a

Please
Thank you
Yes
No

This will be the end of our lesson  for  today, if you like this program, you can
sign up for a complete class  which will be 14 lessons  at $25
E-mail  us if you are interested.

Here are some common phrases in the language, written and spoken. When speaking the Hausa language.
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