FSI. Swahili An Active Introduction. General Conversation

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Издатель/Автор: Foreign Service Institute
Год: 1966
Количество страниц: 167
Based on materials supplied by John Indakwa, Daudi Ballali
Organized and edited by Earl W. Stevick Marianne Lehr, Paul G. Imhoff

In the summer of 1965, the Foreign Service Institute produced for Peace Corps use an Experimental Course in Swahili. The distinctive feature of that course was its 'microwave' style of lesson organization, which emphasizes communicative use of each structural element as soon as it appears. Subsequent experience in a number of Peace Corps training programs as well as at the Foreign Service Institute has led to extensive revision and supplementation, and to division of the one course into two.
The subject matter of this booklet is taken from the area of general, socially useful, conversation. The student is introduced to the rudiments of Swahili grammar as well as to a number of the highest frequency patterns and cliches which he will need immediately upon arrival in East Africa.
The companion booklet, An Active Introduction to Swahili: Geography, may be
used before this one, or after it, or concurrently with it. Both have been produced with financial support from the Peace Corps,
Supervising linguist for the project was Earl W. Stevick, assisted by Marianne Lehr and Paul Imhoff. Swahili materials were supplied and checked by John Indakwa and Daudi Ballali. Mr. Indakwa also supervised in one of the principal training programs in which the Experimental Course was first used.
The Institute wishes to thank the many persons who, through their criticisms and corrections of the Experimental Course, have contributed to the improvement of the present version.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Суахили