Luganda Language

The FSI Luganda Basic course consists of 94 lessons that each begin by presenting new language, mostly in the form of sentences, before explaining them and then practising them through drills. This is slightly different from most other FSI Basic courses in that this course doesn’t contain dialogues to read or listen to.

The 94 lessons that make up the bulk of the course are preceded by a section dealing with the tones of Luganda, one of the more challenging aspects of the language for many learners.

As well as this, there is a separate “pretraining” course of 20 hours, which also deals with the pronunciation of Luganda. This is intended to be completed before starting the tones section and the rest of the main Basic course.

Unfortunately, none of the audio that is supposed to accompany these courses is currently available, which makes the material more difficult to use, especially if you have no other study materials to refer to.

If I am able to locate the audio recordings in the future, I will upload them to the site to help anyone trying to study this language.