Setswana: Complete Language Pack (A1–C2)

A complete beginner's foundation in Setswana: greet, introduce yourself, count, shop, find your way, talk about family and home, and build your first real sentences, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Greet people and say goodbye politely, the Setswana way
• Introduce yourself, ask someone's name, and say where you are from
• Count from one to twenty, use the tens, and say 100 and 1000

An elementary pack for everyday life: your daily routine, plans, the weather, health, travel and town errands, talked through naturally, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Describe your daily routine: when you wake, wash, eat, work and rest
• Talk about yesterday and the near future using the recent past and future markers
• Describe the weather and name the seasons, and say what you do in each

An intermediate pack for building real fluency: work, study, phone calls, travel, health, shopping and giving your opinion, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Talk about your work, your role and your working day in connected sentences
• Describe your studies, ask and answer questions about learning, and follow simple explanations
• Hold a basic phone call: greet, ask for someone, leave a message and arrange to call back

An upper-intermediate pack for confident speakers: giving and defending opinions, talking news, work and money, the internet, the environment and customs, solving problems, and telling a full story about the past.

By the end you can:

• Give, justify and defend an opinion, and agree or disagree with someone politely but firmly
• Follow and discuss the gist of news reports and current affairs
• Take part in a workplace meeting: raise a point, make a proposal and reach a decision

An advanced pack: debating and persuading, proverbs and idioms, formal and academic register, the language of law and media, oral tradition, emotion and figurative speech, with a say-it-like guide on every line.

By the end you can:

• Build and defend a reasoned argument, conceding points and rebutting others with appropriate connectors
• Understand and use proverbs (diane) and idioms naturally to add weight and colour to your speech
• Switch confidently between everyday, formal and academic registers as the situation demands

A pack for near-native speakers: proverbs, oratory, register and connotation, and the idea of botho that runs through the language.

By the end you can:

• Quote and apply diane (proverbs) precisely, choosing the one that settles the moment the way a native elder would
• Open and carry a formal address at the kgotla: greeting, honouring, persuading and closing with the right humility
• Shift register at will between honorific, formal, professional and intimate speech without a false note