Speak Rwanda: the essential pocket guide to Kinyarwanda for communication, travel, and health. (March 2010)

Speak Rwanda is a comprehensive pocket guide and Kinyarwanda dictionary, designed for English speakers who want to learn and use Kinyarwanda for work or tourism. Created for both travelers and aid workers, Speak Rwanda offers cultural insights, historical information and all the vocabulary and language notes you’ll need to get around, make friends, do meaningful work and demonstrate respect for the local people and customs. This essential pocket guide features:

• An easy-to-navigate format
• A clear and intuitive pronunciation guide
• A two-way English and Kinyarwanda dictionary for aiding in your communications
• Tips on religion, customs and body language
• Special sections on working with children

Speak Rwanda Basic $24.99
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10 short Kinyarwanda lessons for first time or new-to-Rwanda travelers

Speak Rwanda Basic is a set of easy-to-learn mp3 audio lessons and pdf guide that teaches basic Kinyarwanda phrases. There are 10 lessons in the download, each approximately 15 minutes in length. You can learn more than 80 phrases if you study all of the lessons. Phrase topics include general greetings, food, shopping, church, medical, getting around and more.

• $24.99 for Speak Rwanda download
• Contact us for volume discounts/licensing

 

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Tryout Lesson One (Greetings)
 

 

Flash Cards: Kinyarwanda Basic Vocabulary $7.99 (download only)

200 words to practice every day

The basic flash card product is a downloadable pdf document that you print yourself. The flash card document contains 200 basic Kinyarwanda vocabulary words with English translations that will print on the back of the flash card. The list of words includes nouns, verbs, (infinitive form), adjectives, and question words, such as who, where ect.

 

The flash card document if formatted to print on perforated business card paper that can be purchased at office supply stores, or the flash cards can be printed on regular 8 by10 plain paper and cut with scissors or a paper cutter.
 

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Translation Services for Kinyarwanda

From Kinyarwanda to English, or English to Kinyarwanda

Speakrwanda offers translation services from Kinyarwanda to English, or English to Kinyarwanda.

 

If you need translation services, please email serena@speakrwanda.com and describe your project, and email images of the documents if possible.  We charge $35 per hour, and we can give you an estimate of total hours once we see the materials.  We require an advance deposit of 50%, based on our estimate of total hours for the project.

 

We can usually turn around a small translation project within 1-2 days.  Our translations are not “official” for legal purposes of the Rwandan government. But we can provide excellent, quick translations for your project.

 

Speak Rwanda Advanced (Future)

20 lessons for experienced or long-term Rwandan travelers

Speak Rwanda Advanced is an extensive audio series that expands on the teachings of Speak Rwanda Basic. There will be 20 lessons total and each will be approximately 45 minutes in length. Speak Rwanda Advanced includes a phonetic pronunciation guide and teaches deeper levels of vocabulary as well as the unique sounds of the Kinyawranda language not found in English. This product will also include an in-depth lesson developed specifically for medical workers.