Session 1 is now full — join the waitlist for Session 2 →
In 6 weeks,
you’ll hold a
real chiShona
conversation.
A small-group, live-taught cohort for anyone who wants to speak chiShona — whether you’re starting from scratch or finally doing something about the language you grew up hearing.
- 6 live Friday lessons with Tsitsi
- 6 student-led conversation circles
- Lifetime recordings
- mazwi Premium — lifetime
- Shonaverse Premium membership
- WhatsApp accountability circle
Session 2 coming later in 2026
Introduce yourself and ask someone else’s name — in chiShona, not in your head.
Talk about your family, your totem, and where you come from.
Navigate everyday life — food, time, stories — without freezing up.
Hold a 5-minute conversation in your graduation circle, with no teacher in the room.
From mhoro to a real conversation.
Six weeks. Two calls per week. Every lesson builds on the last. No grammar drills. No memorisation tests. Just real chiShona, spoken by real people, in a room small enough to actually practise.
Every piece is here because it works.
One price. No upsells. No drip-fed extras.
A 60-min live lesson with Tsitsi every Friday, plus a 30–45 min student-led conversation circle. That’s 12 sessions across 6 weeks.
Every session recorded and yours to keep. Rewatch a lesson, catch something you missed, or revisit week 1 from week 6.
Tsitsi’s own Shona vocabulary app. Lifetime Premium access included with your enrolment — yours to keep long after the cohort ends.
The Speak Shona community. Premium membership gives you access to cohort archives, community discussions, and future resources.
A private group with your cohort. Ask questions between sessions, share wins, practise writing in chiShona — the thing that actually keeps people going.
One price. No hidden fees. No subscription after. One payment, one cohort, everything above included. Class is intentionally small.
$197. Less than half the price of equivalent 1:1 lessons.
A single 1:1 Shona lesson costs $45. Six weeks of weekly lessons alone would run you $270 — and that’s before recordings, community, or the app.
- ✕ Conversation practice
- ✕ Session recordings
- ✕ mazwi Premium
- ✕ Shonaverse Premium
- ✕ WhatsApp accountability
- ✕ Small group community
- ✓ 6 live lessons + 6 conversation circles
- ✓ Lifetime recordings
- ✓ mazwi Premium — lifetime
- ✓ Shonaverse Premium
- ✓ WhatsApp accountability circle
- ✓ Small group, real conversation
“You’re not buying 6 sessions. You’re buying the ability to speak to your family.”
Tsitsi has taught Shona for 20 years. She wrote the mazwi app.
Tsitsi is a native chiShona speaker, founder of Speak Shona, and the creator of mazwi — the Shona vocabulary app trusted by learners across 30+ countries.
She grew up with the language, spent two decades teaching it, and built Shona Jumpstart because she knows what actually works: small groups, live conversation, and enough space to make mistakes without an audience of strangers.
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