Sesotho: Complete Language Pack (A1–C2)

Your first steps in Sesotho: greet people, count, shop, find your way and talk about family, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Greet people warmly at any time of day, ask how they are and say goodbye correctly to one or many
• Introduce yourself (your name, where you come from and where you live) and ask someone else the same
• Count from one to twenty, use the tens, hundred and thousand, and ask and state a price

Step beyond the basics into everyday Sesotho: your daily routine, plans and invitations, the weather, health, getting around town, and chatting about what you did yesterday and will do tomorrow.

By the end you can:

• Describe your daily routine and say what you usually do, using the present tense
• Talk about the recent past (what you did yesterday) and simple plans for tomorrow
• Describe the weather and name the four seasons

An intermediate pack for Southern Sotho that carries you into real conversation about work, study, the phone, travel, shopping, health, feelings and plans, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Describe my job, studies and daily duties, and ask others about theirs
• Manage a phone call or text exchange: greet, ask who is calling, leave a message
• Book travel, ask about times and fares, and follow simple directions

An upper-intermediate pack for confident speakers: voicing opinions, following the news, handling work, money and technology, and discussing community, custom and advice with real fluency.

By the end you can:

• Express and defend an opinion, and agree or disagree politely with reasons
• Follow and react to news and current affairs, summarising the main points
• Take an active part in a workplace meeting: propose, question and conclude

An advanced C1 pack for near-fluent speakers: debate and persuasion, proverbs and idioms, formal register, officialdom and heritage, with real Sesotho grammar and a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Argue, persuade and concede a point in structured debate using natural Sesotho discourse markers
• Use proverbs (maele) and idioms aptly to add weight and nuance to what you say
• Switch confidently between formal/professional register and warm, intimate family register

A near-native pack: proverbs, oratory, shifting register, praise and naming, and the language of botho, for speakers who want to hold their own among elders.

By the end you can:

• Quote, interpret and use Sesotho proverbs (maele) aptly in live conversation and debate
• Open, sustain and close formal oratory at a lekhotla, greeting and thanking the gathering correctly
• Shift register (blunt, neutral, deferential, euphemistic) to match an elder, a peer or a child