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Pick a language and get a one-page cheat sheet of beginner phrases — the spelling, what it means, and a respelling with the stressed syllable in capitals so you can say it out loud straight away. Print it, stick it on the fridge, learn five phrases a day.
Swahili starter kit
68 phrases · Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo
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Yoruba starter kit
60 phrases · Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and a large diaspora in Brazil, Cuba and the US
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Zulu starter kit
60 phrases · South Africa, with speakers in Eswatini, Lesotho and Zimbabwe
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Igbo starter kit
57 phrases · Southeastern Nigeria
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Hausa starter kit
57 phrases · Northern Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Chad, Cameroon
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Amharic starter kit
57 phrases · Ethiopia
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Xhosa starter kit
25 phrases · South Africa, especially the Eastern and Western Cape
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Shona starter kit
25 phrases · Zimbabwe, with speakers in Mozambique and Zambia
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Somali starter kit
57 phrases · Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and a global diaspora
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Oromo starter kit
25 phrases · Ethiopia and northern Kenya
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Twi starter kit
57 phrases · Ghana
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Wolof starter kit
25 phrases · Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania
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Lingala starter kit
25 phrases · DR Congo, Republic of the Congo
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Kinyarwanda starter kit
25 phrases · Rwanda, with close relatives in Burundi and Uganda
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Luganda starter kit
25 phrases · Uganda, especially the central region and Kampala
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Tigrinya starter kit
25 phrases · Eritrea and northern Ethiopia
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Sesotho starter kit
25 phrases · Lesotho and South Africa
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Setswana starter kit
25 phrases · Botswana and South Africa
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Afrikaans starter kit
25 phrases · South Africa and Namibia
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Fula starter kit
25 phrases · Across the Sahel from Senegal to Sudan
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Bambara starter kit
25 phrases · Mali, with speakers in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea
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Ewe starter kit
25 phrases · Ghana and Togo
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Ga starter kit
25 phrases · Greater Accra, Ghana
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Chichewa starter kit
25 phrases · Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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Kikuyu starter kit
25 phrases · Central Kenya
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Tshivenda starter kit
25 phrases · Limpopo, South Africa, and southern Zimbabwe
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Sango starter kit
25 phrases · Central African Republic
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Krio starter kit
25 phrases · Sierra Leone
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Malagasy starter kit
25 phrases · Madagascar
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Berber (Tamazight) starter kit
25 phrases · Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger
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Nobiin starter kit
25 phrases · Northern Sudan along the Nile, and southern Egypt around Aswan and Kom Ombo
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