We suggest printing out the swahili exercise book and working through the exercises with a pencil or a pen. We have designed it to give you a very easy way to learn to speak, read, and even write swahili words correctly. Portuguese, english and german, due to colonial influence. It is the official language in tanzania and kenya, and is also used in uganda, somalia, mozambique, malawi, rwanda, burundi, zambia, and congo formerly zaire. Presenting the essentials of swahili grammar in a highly accessible fashion, it reduces complex language topics to helpful rules and mnemonic aids, enabling maxi. Had it been called a course in swahili or a handbook o swahili the title would have been much more appropriate than the rather misleading swahili grammar and syntax. It assumes no formal knowledge of english grammar and is written in very simple language. Swahili swa iso 6392 grammar is typical for bantu languages, bearing all the hallmarks of this language family. Im sure kansas university must be a great place to learn swahili. Free swahili lessons and courses multilingual books. Presenting the essentials of swahili grammar in a highly accessible fashion, it reduces complex language topics to helpful rules and mnemonic aids, enabling maximum grammar retention and accurate usage. Its hundreds of pages long, wellorganised and all built into a lightweight pdf.
I even got some compliments on my accent and grammar, even though my swahili is far from perfect. Pdf swahili made easy download full pdf book download. Fsi swahili an active introduction general conversation. Free swahili lessons and courses we have gathered together here a number of free swahili language lessons and language courses for those learning swahili, along with some other swahili language resources, such as swahili online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers. The later migration to the south of the swahili people helped further spread the language to presentday kenya, tanzania, malawi, and mozambique. Engimas and aphorisms with explanations as given by waswahili study 4. Krapf, a dictionary of the swahili language, london, trubner.
Most kenyans you meet will love to hear you speaking swahili. Perfect for use on a smart phone or an ipad using the ibooks app. The first column of the table gives example nouns in each class. Fsi swahili basic course student text fsi language courses. Swahili or kiswahili is a bantu language spoken throughout the indian ocean coastline from kenya to mozambique, and including the comoros islands.
Shop foreign language study swahili books at alibris. The discover discomfort swahili noun classes and grammar cheat sheet. The following areas of swahili grammar are also covered in detail. Download learn swahili level 1 introduction to swahili ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Swahili represents an african world view quite different. Modern swahili grammar is an important contribution to the study of swahili grammar from pedagogical and lingustic perspectives, and thus relevant to both students of swahili and scholars of linguistics and sociolinguistics. A full 20 pages of exercises in swahili to help you learn the key words and phrases in the language. Aside from our standard starter pack for languages of books, teachers, flashcards and glossika, weve also been looking around the web for anything we can find. We will first learn about prepositions, negation, questions, adverbs, and pronouns including. For example, in the mwa class, the example is mtu a person or watu people.
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