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As part of an overhaul of Unit 3 of the Beginner Bambara course, I have made an entirely new Workbook chapter with some mixed drills for beginners to practice the very basics of verbs in the present.
Need to practice? Want to see if it’s easy peasy for you now? 
Any feedback, let me know!
It’s straight forward and useful.
I just continue to be confused with the progressive somehow, on when to jse it, also because the conjugation in dioula and bambara is different, so Il am still sometimes confused …
Hmmm. Well, this exercise wasn’t about the progressive per se. All the Bambara/Jula sentences were in the imperfective/incomplete (AKA “the present”). But the translations were sometimes progressive in English because well, Bambara/Jula uses the “present” (e.g., N bɛ taa! [when announcing that one is leaving to friends]) in places where I think most English speakers would use the progressive (e.g., “I’m going!”).
I guess my advice would be to use the progressive (e.g., bɛ ka or bɛ (object) VERB-ra/la/na) when you feel that you would do so in English. It will always work. But then observe the ways around you that the formally progressive forms are used less in Bambara/Jula than in English.
PS - It’s worth noting maybe that I always find that Germans use English progressives in a weird way (e.g., “I am speaking Bambara all the time!” instead of “I speak Bambara all the time”), so it’s a common issue across languages 
Very interesting! That may explain my coɲmnfusion! I will try to look out for when people use it in jula/bambara to be able to mimic it eventually 
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