Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press
Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press
Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press
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PREFACE<br />
This book provides an advanced beginner or intermediate student of<br />
<strong>Zulu</strong> with a variety of newspaper selections, complete with all<br />
grammatical and lexical information to decipher them. It is intended<br />
for self-study, but could as well be used in a classroom situation.<br />
Altogether there are four sections:<br />
Frontmatter: including the table of contents, acknowledgments, this<br />
preface, a list of abbreviations, the sources of the articles, and certain<br />
information regarding analytical and terminological differences<br />
found in the recommended <strong>Zulu</strong> grammar and this publication.<br />
Part 1: the 28 reading selections<br />
Part 2: English translations of the selections<br />
Part 3: <strong>Zulu</strong> glossary (a composite for all the selections including<br />
grammatical information of every form or pattern that<br />
occurred).<br />
The 28 articles have been taken from the following <strong>Zulu</strong> periodicals<br />
published between 1999 and 2001: UMAFRIKA and Bona <strong>Zulu</strong>. A<br />
full list of citations is presented later on in this introduction. The<br />
subject matter reflects a range and diversity of topics, genres and<br />
styles encountered in the <strong>Zulu</strong> press: a recipe (S1), an obituary (S2),<br />
political issues and opinions (S3, S5, S6, S7), education (S5, S13), a<br />
horoscope (S4), social issues – including Black and women’s<br />
empowerment (S8, S9, S12, S14, S18, S19, S23, S25), justice and<br />
crime (S10, S21, S26), sports (S11), local news (S13), careers (S14,<br />
S16, S18, S27), medical or health issues (S15, S20, S25), natural<br />
disaster (S17), personal ad (S22), conservation and society (S24),<br />
farming (S27), and financial advice (S28).<br />
Most articles are within the range of Level 2 of the ILR (Interagency<br />
Language Roundtable, formerly FSI or Foreign Service Institute)<br />
scale, except for selections S23, S25, S26, and S28, which go into<br />
L3. The articles start out short and simple, and get progressively<br />
more complex.<br />
Every effort has been made to make this reader as self-contained as<br />
possible. All lexical and grammatical information is presented in the<br />
order of occurrence (i.e., not in alphabetical order). In each<br />
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