Bambara Language Lesson 1

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First video of an ongoing Bambara Language series I am working on. The material for this video comes from the following two sources: Bird and Kante, Introductory Bambara. • The audio can be found here: • http://www.iu.edu/~celtie/Bambara-Int... • And the book can be found here: • https://archive.org/details/beginning... • I decided to pull these two materials together into one video to make it easier for people to follow, using highlighting of text to call attention to what's being said and where, so that you could learn primarily how Bambara words are pronounced. • There IS an alphabet called N'ko, that was created and designed principally for languages in and around Mali like Bambara, and that is more advanced. Charles Bird and Mamadou Kante do not use that in this book, and nor do I in these videos; they use Latin characters in this series. This is more to get you acquainted with the spoken language, so that, if for example you are a follower of the following blogs: Awesome Tapes from Africa or Worldsrv, perhaps learning some of this language it will demystify some of the lyrics being sung by such artists such as Nahawa Doumbia or Oumou Sangare. • There ARE some youtube channels focused on teaching N'ko and they are great and worth your while to learn, but this course is more basic level, to help total noobs and the uninitiated, like myself LOL :) Think of Latin characters as the training wheels, so to speak, to get used to the words. Then, it will be easier to learn the N'ko. • I did this partly as an exercise to help myself learn, particularly, because repetition is key to learning languages. Instead of doing homework exercises and filling out workbooks, the making of these video sequences gave me the needed repetition I needed, plus I could share it with all of you! • Bambara is a good language to learn because alot of good music is being made today that is sung in Bambara, from Mali and other countries nearby. A number of prominent artists have sold records worldwide, singing in Bambara. The impact and influence of Malian music on Western genres such as Rock and New Wave is under-stated. But Malian music has had influence on artists ranging from Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Brian Eno, to name but a few. Besides which, some ethnomusicologists consider Mali to be the origin and home of The Blues.

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