The English-Ciyawo Dictionary has been designed to help Yawo
learners improve their English language skills for undertaking secondary
school and university in the following ways: It helps a Yawo learner
identify and learn the 3,000 most important and frequently used words in
the English language. It gives a learner the most important meanings of
each English word. It shows a learner how an English word is used in a
sentence and also gives a translation of each sentence in Ciyawo to help
a learner fully grasp the meaning.
Price range: £47.00 through £50.00
About the editors
Ian Dicks is an Australian and is married with two children. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia where he is a lecturer in Intercultural Studies. Ian, has lived and worked in the Mangochi District of Malaŵi for 22 years and continues to work as the Senior Editor in the Ciyawo-English Dictionary Project, as well as a language and culture consultant, helping to facilitate others in language and culture acquisition in South Eastern Africa. Ian’s previous publications with the ABC include Wisdom of the Yawo People (2006), A Practical Guide to Understanding Ciyawo (2010), and An African Worldview, The Muslim Amacinga Yawo of Southern Malawi (2012).
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