Learn English With Africa

by Thandi Ngwira Gatignol

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- Captivating short stories & books
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Captivating English lessons
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Thandi Ngwira Gatignol (Learn English With Africa)
Designed by passionate English teacher from Malawi
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Bringing out the best of the African continent

Hello and welcome to Learn English With Africa!

This language website is for students, teachers and anybody who would like to perfect their English and learn more about African culture in general.

As a learner or curious visitor, we always encourage you to play an active role through creativity and adventure. Additionally, you are constantly challenged so that you can continue to improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

We teach in a colourful and pleasant way through rich stories, vivid emotions and striking imagery. These include comprehensive vocabulary and grammar lessons, short stories, poems, quizzes, varied audio and original video content. You will equally find dozens of creative and original charts to help you understand concepts in a quick and easy-to-remember way.

Let’s have a closer look at what you can get.

Learn English With Africa short stories

African history is steeped into oral story-telling traditions.
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As a child in Malawi, I grew up with absorbing short stories that we called ‘nthano’. They were often about wild animals and Hare was often the cunning hero while Hyena was always in trouble.

Later on, I discovered more short stories in the weekend editions of the Malawi News or Nation newspapers. They were highly entertaining and often morally-based. Above all, they provided us with a lot of vocabulary and useful expressions that enabled us to read more books and improve our English fluency.

Indeed, stories are a great way of learning languages in general. They allow us to discover new words and worlds. In fact, they are a clever way of meeting and studying grammar in context. Besides, they allow students to build their autonomy and self-confidence as their language skills improve.

Our short stories are set in Africa and in the diaspora and are all an interesting read. Some of them also come with vocabulary or grammar charts, a reading comprehension or vocabulary worksheet to facilitate understanding.

We have beginner (A1-A2), intermediate (A2-B1) to advanced levels (B1-B2). You can also buy short stories as a paperback or e-book  >here< 

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Our Best Christmas Stories
Intermediate stories (A2-B1)

Our BEST Christmas Stories (Level A2-B1)

Get ready for this festive season with our best Christmas stories. These are mostly beginner to intermediate short stories and they are packed with Christmas Vocabulary.

Are you a fan of English short stories?

You can also purchase our books. Available as pdf, kindle or paperback book.

Learn English With Africa vocabulary lessons

Our vocabulary lessons are aimed at giving you the right tools to create your own sentences, paragraphs or full descriptions.
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With our thorough lessons, you can learn how to describe yourself, your family, your school, your nearest hospital, your city or village. You can also learn how to talk about a famous historical character or an inspirational person. You can equally describe a poster, an advert, a photograph or a drawing. As a matter of fact, why not also learn how to describe the African continent and its landscape? The vocabulary lessons are numerous and the sky is the limit!

When you learn with us, it is often a step-by-step process where you are able to see how to use words in context. We give you many examples so that you can reuse them as models. You thus become an active and mature learner who is not afraid to take risks or make mistakes.

Besides, we even provide you with a variety of situations. Hence, you can be more creative and adventurous. In the end, you can show off your newly acquired skills to your friends, classmates, colleagues, family members or teachers through practice!

Finally, we encourage you to check the pronunciation or meaning of new words in a bilingual or unilingual dictionary for phonetic accuracy. Remember—speaking is as important as writing! Once you have mastered a vocabulary field then you can enjoy our compelling short stories that give you insightful glimpses into African culture and how people live on a day-to-day basis.

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Learn English With Africa grammar lessons

Our grammar lessons are aimed at teaching you grammar in context with the help of memorable charts.
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We kill boredom with fascinating situations. Often, you actually forget that you are learning boring grammar information (that you need to know anyway), as you are constantly active. You are invited to think, create, correct, imagine situations so that you see how these grammar tools are actually friendly and easy to use.

Thus, you can learn about the Present Perfect Tense through a short story that is called ‘The Perfect Present’. You can know more about Conditionals by immersing yourself in a short story entitled ‘Unconditional Love’.

The accompanying charts are original and clear. You can always refer to them when you need to clarify a point and do not want to use a cumbersome grammar handbook.

You will also find more lessons on BE, HAVE, the Present Continuous tense, Modal Verbs, Reported Speech and many more.

Finally, as with vocabulary lessons, you get to see grammar in action in rivetting and unforgettable short stories .

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...but you can also join us as a member to get full access to all materials.

Reviews - English teachers speak about our offer

Our courses have gained positive reviews worldwide!

I founded Learn English With Africa in 2015 with the aim of providing authentic learning and teaching materials about Africa. Since then, thousands of people from all over the world have been using this website’s content to perfect their English or learn more about Africa in general.

It’s always a pleasure to hear from you!
Marianafrom Argentina
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Hi Thandi! I'm Mariana and I'm an English teacher from Argentina. I was searching for material and preparing lessons for my students and I found your website. I wanted to say thank you for such a beautiful and useful web.
Upasnafrom India
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Hi! I am an English teacher in India. Today I came across this website. It's really beautiful, the content is amazing and it will be very helpful in planning my classes. Thank you very much and congratulations for this superb achievement.
Mariofrom Peru
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Hello Thandi. It is nice to say hello to you and congratulate on your varied activities. I like reading and teaching English and I have found your site Learning English with Africa very useful and interesting. I am from Peru so my native language is Spanish. Greetings from Peru.
Madeleinefrom Eritrea
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Dear Thandi, I just wanted to say that your website is fantastic! I'm teaching a group of students from Eritrea at the moment and it's great to be able to use stories set in Africa to do so. All the best in everything you do.
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