In the first episode of Season III, we had the pleasure of having a 21st century Dibia, Chika L. Nnabuike help us explore the topic of Dada also known as dreadlocs/ locs. Tune in to part I of this episode. Be sure to share and leave us a review.

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

S3E1: Dada I

This is part II on our episode on Dada with the 21st century Dibia, Chika L. Nnabuike . Enjoy, don't forget to like, share and subscribe.

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

S3E2: Dada II

n this episode we  have a new guest teacher by the name of Sopuruchi Aboh who is an Igbo linguist that is passionate about the development of the Igbo language. He teaches Igbo and Linguistics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and as  published articles and books on Igbo culture and language. His recent publication is an anthology of poems on coronavirus and climate change he co-edited titled, Sọọrọ Ụwa Zeere Koro. If you are interested in getting a copy of this book or any of his work, please email igbopodcast @ gmail dot com

In this episode we explore the topic of Demonstratives, so words like "this, that, those, and these" in Igbo Language as well as look at vocabulary for household objects and more. 

To purchase transcript/worksheet of episode, go to www.obodofullcircle.com

S3E3: Demonstrative I and Vocabulary

In this episode we look more closely at go-to demonstratives phrases to know to say things like "this place/here," "that place/there," and things like "this thing," "that person" etc. These are phrases that once mastered can help you create Igbo sentences with greater ease! To purchase the transcript for this episode please go to Obodofullcircle.com

S3E4: Survival Demonstratives II

In this episode we explore demonstrative pronouns which are simply where the words "this or that" are used in place of the name of a noun. We also end this episode playing the This or That Game: Igbo Edition.  To purchase the transcript for this episode please go to Obodofullcircle.com

S3E5: Demonstrative III- Nke a vs Nke ahụ

S3E6: Possession In Igbo I

In this episode we expand on the concept of possession in Igbo, exploring possessive adjectives and putting our knowledge to the test with exercises.  To purchase a transcript of it please go to https://obodofullcircle.com/transcripts.

S3E7: Possession in Igbo II

Reflexive pronouns are used to depict when something does something to itself. In English, Reflexive pronouns are things like " myself, himself, herself, themselves etc." In this episode we will be exploring how to create reflexive pronouns in Igbo. To purchase a transcript of it please go to https://obodofullcircle.com/transcripts.

S3E8: Reflexive Pronouns I

In this episode we explore more phrases to know with the reflexive pronouns, then we put those phrases to the test with scenarios where we select the most appropriate phrase to respond to the scenario. To purchase a transcript of it please go to https://obodofullcircle.com/transcripts.

S3E9: Reflexive Pronouns II

Check out this exclusive episode with the founder of Igbo Podcast, Ifunanya, and  Ụmụ Igbo Unite, an organization that promotes and preserves Igbo culture across the diaspora while empowering and connecting young Igbo professionals. In this episode Ifunanya discusses in her journey of how she went from not being able to speak any Igbo to becoming  conversational in Igbo and equipped to pioneer the Igbo Podcast brand. She also discusses more about her experience going back to Nigeria for 6 months with the primary goal of learning Igbo and immersing herself in the language and culture! 



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S3E10: Igbo Podcast x Ụmụ Igbo Unite Exclusive Interview

This is the Introductory Episode to "Ọjị Abịala: An Igbo Podcast" which seeks to help individuals improve their Igbo speaking, comprehension, and more.  The series is pioneered by a fellow Igbo learner who, in making great strides with her Igbo, wants to help others do the same.
 
Each episode focuses on specific topics or themes and features a guest  Igbo teacher/linguist.  In this episode the founder, Ifunanya,  gives an overview of how episodes will be conducted and also how the listeners can best begin their Igbo language journeys.  

Overall Tips for Success
        1. Learning a new language is learning how to think a thought differently, welcome this!

       2. Practice Regularly, episodes should be listened to and worked on repeatedly depending on ones level, to really get the most out of them.
 
      3. Be Brave and Patient, in order to improve speech you have to have the courage to speak in the language and the willingness to make inevitable mistakes. 

     4. Make SMART goals meaning Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound goal.

Tips for effectively learning with the podcast:

1. Listen in stages: For the first listen just be okay listening all the way through. Don’t feel you have to memorize or learn everything all at once. This will allow you to listen again to the episode with more specific objectives.  

2. Visuals: each episode has a description that has the key words and phrases written out, use this to supplement your auditory learning during one or more of your stages of listening.

3. Exercises: Actively participate in the exercises of each episode, practice saying things out loud and testing your comprehension.

4. Recap Audio- these are short sub-clips of all the words and phrases from the previous episode. This is helpful for a learner who really wants to hone in on pronunciation and comprehension. Use this along with full episodes to help solidify what you’ve learned. 


Music: Eriwa by Ruffcoin

Introduction: Nnọọ

In this episode, listeners will learn a few basic Igbo Greetings as well as phrases for their Beginner Igbo Language Survival Kits--- that is phrases that can get the listener to start speaking Igbo in their daily lives as well as beginning to navigate through different real life scenarios using the Igbo language. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Ezigbo Mmadu Adiro Fechaa by Osadebe

Episode 1: Learn Igbo in 30 mins

This sub-audio is a recap of the phrases and vocabulary of Episode 1 only. It is designed, especially for beginners, who need a bit more resources to help commit these phrases into memory as well as work on pronunciation. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Ezigbo Mmadu Adiro Fechaa by Osadebe

Episode 2: Recap of Survival Igbo

This episode builds upon the previous episode with more phrases that can easily be integrated in everyday life. It also explores basic phrases a learner may hear and use to introduce him/herself to another Igbo speaker.

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Agbalụ aka na azọ anị by Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

Episode 3: Beginner phrases cont., Introduction, & More

This audio puts into action the phrases learned in the previous Episode 3 and then recaps all of the phrases, depending on your goals, I would suggest going through the exercise without looking through the visual at first to test your knowledge then refer back. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com

Music: Agbalụ aka na azọ anị by Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

Episode 4: Exercises And Recap

This episode focuses on what is known as Udamkpi in Igbo, as digraphs by linguist, and more colloquially as  "double consonants." 

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Ejeagha by Obiako Nnwam

Episode 5: Udamkpi (Double Consonants)

Pronouns are known as "Nnọchi Aha" in Igbo, which translates to “to be in the place of a name”. At the very basic sentence structure level, Igbo follows a similar pattern with English in that sentences are also constructed in the “subject-verb-object” format. When addressing pronouns, we will look both at the pronouns used when as subjects and as objects.

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Na Kwa Echeki by Dr Sir Warrior and Oriental Brothers

Episode 7: Nnọchi Aha(Pronouns)

In this Episode, we put our question words into action by role playing two scenarios. This is a good exercise to help with comprehension as well as working on pronunciation and command of the Igbo question words.

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Onye bu nwanne m by Onyeka

Episode 12: Ajụjụ In Action

Ọnụọgụgụ  means Numbers in Igbo. 

 In this lesson, we go over Igbo number 1-10 and then using this knowledge formulate other numbers from 1-99. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Ijele by Flavour ft Zoro

Episode 13: Ọnụọgụgụ

This episode gives a bit more practice on formulating numbers and then introduces numbers such as 100, 1000,  and 1,000,000

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Ijele by Flavour ft Zoro

Episode 14: Advanced Numbers

In english, everything simply just is. The "to be" verb can be used when stating, I am a girl,  He is 32 years old, or They are at the house. Also notice that in english the "to be" verb also changes or is conjugated based off the pronoun, ie: "is, are, am." 

The way Igbo people conceptualize the "to be" verb is different however. In this episode we explain that the "Ịbụ" "to be" verb in Igbo is used more when expressing a category of an object or its literally "being" while "Ịdị" is more so used to qualify that being or to speak towards an attribute. There is another form of the "to be" verb in the igbo language used to explain "to be at a place," (explored in the next upcoming episode). 

Note luckily in Igbo the "to be" verb remains the same "bụ" or "dị" or " nọ" irregardless of the pronoun uses. Listen to this episode to explore more and also practice with exercises. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music- Akula: Owu Onye Ara by The Funkees

Episode 15: Ịbụ vs Ịdị

In this episode we explore,  "Ịnọ" the "to be" verb which means being at a place for both living and non living items. (Note there are examples where ịdị can also be the "to be" verb used to describe "to be at a place" for inanimate objects. This concept is not explored in this episode however.) We then explore common vocabulary words for names of places in Igbo. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Zoro ft Flavour - Ogene (Instrumental) Produced by KexyKlef x Majorbangz

Episode 16: Ịnọ

The Igbo word for “family” is Ezinaụlọ, a compound word made of two separate words: (1) Ezi - compound or outside and (2) Ụlọ - house. In this episode, we explore 6 key words, as explained by @nwaadaigbo, that act as building blocks to refer to many different family members.

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Flavour Ada Ada (karaoke version)

Episode 17: Ezinaụlọ Part 1

This episode reviews key words a learner should know when discussing the immediate family and then provides additional vocabulary for other family members and related phrases.

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Nwa by Ifé

Episode 18: Ezinaụlọ Part  II

This Episode Recaps some key vocabulary that we have learned about the family and related terms.  Listen and try to see what you can recall and also practice saying these words out loud with the correct pronunciation. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Chief Osita Osadebe- Ife onye metalu

Episode 19: Ezinaụlọ/Related Terms Vocab Recap

In this Episode, we work on comprehension using some of the family-related terms.

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Obiako Nnwam by Ejeagha

Episode 20: Ezinaụlọ Comprehension

In this episode, we highlight 4 phrases and verbs that are commonly used when talking about the family and related terms: Inwe (to have), Iyi (to resemble in appearance), Idi ka (to resemble in character/values/behaviors), Ito (to be older than).

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Episode 21: Ezinaụlọ Phrases To Know

In this episode, we put together all we've learned so far this season to review vocabulary, pronunciation and comprehension.

This finale is extra special because there is a visual episode along with our audio recording! Check out the visual here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyb8G9IS-jU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1uokxUNdURaho7yDQn07qEJEqcyqveDiQQu2ImjUooGVmQlfmOcDIXTPg

For full transcript and/or worksheet go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Music: Culture by Umu Obiligbo ft Flavour and Phyno. 
Instrumentals: Endeetone

Season 1 Finale

This is the introductory episode of Season II of this podcast series. In this audio, the founder, Ifunanya, gives a glimpse of what can be expected this season, a reminder of the format, and some encouragement towards our overall goals in this language learning journey!

Enjoy =)


Music:  Eriwa by Ruffcoin

Season II Introduction: O teego!

Ọjị, which is kola nut in the Igbo language, is a very significant part of Igbo culture in regards to greetings, offerings, covenants, communion, prayers, and more.  The Kola nut can only be blessed in the Igbo language and as such, the fate of this crucial cultural phenomenon depends on those who can speak the language and who can respect and upkeep the culture.  In this episode, we  dissect the first half of short clip of a kola nut prayer by Obyno Daddy Muna with a new and special guest teacher, Ugochinyerennaya. 

Theme Music by Jon Deux

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

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S2E1: Kola Nut Prayer I

Ọjị, which is kola nut in the Igbo language, is a very significant part of Igbo culture in regards to greetings, offerings, covenants, communion, prayers, and more. The Kola nut can only be blessed in the Igbo language and as such, the fate of this crucial cultural phenomenon depends on those who can speak the language and who can respect and upkeep the culture. In this episode, we dissect the second half of short clip of a kola nut prayer by Obyno Daddy Muna with a new and special guest teacher, Ugochinyerennaya.

Theme Music by Jon Deux

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

Like what we do? Consider supporting by donating with this link here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=aRGqnrGaCBfJzWaP7tpxK7pviD67UMEXHQg0SMOfDdlHzmb_o9n0cMFvajCfw20YTJkkyW&country.x=US&locale.x=

S2E2: Kola Nut Prayer II

So this episode is part II of our episode on creating your own prayer in igbo, which seeks to give a blueprint or guide to creating a personal prayer in Igbo. In the previous episode we went over some "must know phrases" and then a list of names used in glorifying God.  In this part of the episode, we will explore how to show Adoration and thanksgiving,. 
So to explore this part of prayer we will introduce 4 phrases that can be used when beginning your sentences of thanks.  It's important to note that there are many ways to say thank you in Igbo  or to convey these means, but here are just a few phrases to get you started. 

For full transcript/worksheet go to obodofullcircle.com

S2E7: Prayer 101- Thanksgiving/Adoration

This episode provides an intro to Igbo vocabulary of different parts of the body. 

For full transcript and/or worksheet, go to www.obodofullcircle.com.

S2E18: Body Parts Intro

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