Nov 14, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2020-21

AKAN 2110 - Intermediate Twi (Akan) I


Culture based approach to increased language proficiency. Students continue to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as they study diverse history and customs of Twi speakers.

Requisites: AKAN 1120
Credit Hours: 4
General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • The student will be able to ask for and give directions in Twi.
  • The student will be able to express emotions and opinions in Twi.
  • The student will be able to talk about different professions and their future ambitions in Twi.
  • The student will be able to talk about what they like and don’t like about their apartment in Twi.
  • The student will understand post-positions, modals of advice,
  • The students will be able to advise friends on how to prepare for bad weather in Twi.
  • The students will be able to describe their apartments in Twi.
  • The students will be able to relate first impressions of new friends in Twi.
  • The students will be able to talk about Akan food and basic cultural practices in Twi.
  • The students will be able to talk about the Akan people of Ghana in Twi.
  • The students will be able to understand serializations and predicative/attributive adjectives in Twi.
  • The students will be able to understand verbal Nouns and phrasal verbs in Twi.
  • The students will be able to describe weather conditions in Twi.


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