Colloquial Swahili: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)

✍ Scribed by Lutz Marten, Donovan Lee Mcgrath

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Colloquial Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is an excellent book for beginning Swahili. As a fluent speaker, I can tell you that this book will teach you all the grammar you need to form a functioning Swahili sentence and will also provide you with enough vocabulary to communicate in most situations. It won't make you fluent on its own (you need to be immersed in the language before you can be totally fluent), but it will give you the vital tools you'll need to attain fluency one day. When I lived in Kenya, it was much easier for me to gain fluency in the language because I had read this book before hand. Be sure to get the CD's and I'd also recommend getting this book in conjunction with Teach Yourself Swahili by Joan Russell. Between those two books, you'll have a very strong foundation for your studies of the Swahili language.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Karibu!......Page 20
2 Unatoka wapi?......Page 37
3 Familia......Page 55
4 Kusafiri......Page 72
5 Safarini......Page 90
6 Shambani......Page 108
7 Ugonjwa na matibabu......Page 124
8 Kutembelea......Page 143
9 Kufanya utafiti wa jamii......Page 161
10 Sherehe ya arusi......Page 175
11 Taabu za nyumbani......Page 191
12 Hadithi na magazeti......Page 205
13 Mawasiliano......Page 220
14 Muziki wa aina mbalimbali......Page 233
Key to exercises......Page 242
Swahili–English glossary......Page 276
English–Swahili glossary......Page 292
Language structure index......Page 307

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Суахили;Swahili;language;orthography