Ghanaian Language
RVO 2 weeks Culture & Language program
This 2-weeks Ghanaian language and cultural lessons is uniquely designed to help volunteers to acclimatize themselves with the Ghanaian culture, people and environment which may be new to them in their first 2-weeks of arrival in Ghana.
Most volunteers love applying for this project aside their chosen projects because of its interesting and educative aspects.
This Program takes place in Kumasi, a historical city of the Ashanti region during the first 2-weeks of their arrival in Ghana. The Program help volunteers to prepare well for their chosen projects.
FIRST WEEK (TWI LESSONS)
Volunteers would be taking through a week of Ghanaian Twi lessons with a professional Twi teacher. Lessons would involve:
History of Ashanti’s, Kumasi and Ghana.
Culture Ghanaian names and dates of birth
Social and common words used in daily activities.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
FIRST WEEK PROGRAM
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PROGRAM |
DESCRIPTIONS |
DAY 1. |
ORIENTATION |
Welcome to R.V.O-Ghana. Basic information about Ghana and the projects, host family, culture and profile of the region. |
DAY 2. |
CLASS BEGINS |
Ghanaian greetings, conditions, age, introduce and identify people, phrases qualify and quantify people and objects, numbers etc. |
DAY 3. |
CLASS CONTINUES |
Colours, family, feelings, making request and commands with informal future tense, training, shopping and bargaining. |
DAY 4. |
CLASS CONTINUES |
Days time Ghanaian names and their day of birth. |
DAY 5. |
SIGHT SEEING DAY |
A visit to the historic attraction centers, Ashanti palace museum, military museum, craft shop etc. |
DAY 6. |
CLASS CONTINUES |
Parts of the body, physical expressions, etc |
DAY 7 |
CLOSING |
Reverse all lectures, final test and evaluation of program. |
SECOND WEEK (VILLAGE STAYS)
Volunteers would be taking through a week of Ghanaian Twi lessons with a professional Twi teacher. Lessons would involved:
Volunteers would be transferred to a local historical village of Bonwire after a 1-week of Twi lessons.
During the village stay, participants would be livining with a local host family where they would have the opportunity of practicising their language lessons with host family whiles learning rural village livining of Ghanaians and Africans as well.
Volunteers will also engage themselves with learning of ancient way of cooking / preparing meals, palm wine tapping, farming with a local host family, joining a community durbar, weaving of the colorful / popular kente cloth.
Participants will be taking through trekking sessions to the nearby villages.
R.V.O encourages all volunteers to apply for this project alongside their chosen projects in Ghana .
All this Programme would be done with a well trained R.V.O staff members.
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