Learng Kiswahili from the source

Learning Kiswahili from the source

Introduction

We are the undisputable authority in being the hub of Kiswahili in the world as determined by the East African Swahili Committee of the Interteritorial Dependencies in 1930 which chose the Zanzibar dialect as an official dialet to be developed as standard Kswahili.

The Zanzibar dialect was selected among more than 15 Kiswahili dialects along the coast of East Africa from Siu in Southern Somalia to Cape Delgado (Pemba) in Northern Mozambique.

We have comprehensive teaching materials in the form of texts, video clips, pictures and audio.

The teaching materials are prepared to suit both foreigners and locals who want to learn Kiswahili   at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Tutorials and on line courses are organized to suit different levels of competence.

Online courses are organized to suit students studying Kiswahili at Primary, secondary and diploma levels.

We guarantee our full cooperation in fulfilling your needs and assure you of our commitment to suit your competence and ambitions.

The course is devided into three parts: Elementray, Intermediate and Advanced Levels.

          A book to teach Kiswahili to foreigners

This book for teaching Kiswahili to foreigners is of immense value to students who want to study Swahili language as beginners. We organize teaching materials to fit your level beginning with low level to advanced stage.

This level for beginners is intended to benefit students who start learning the language for the first time and would like to use it as a language of communication at a working place, at home, in a hotel, in a market, at bus or railway stations, preparing for a safari, etc.

Background

Swahili is a Bantu language whose morphology is very similar to other Bantu languages in the following details such as:

1. Consonants
2. Vowels
3. Combination of consonants and vowels form syllables
4. Syllables form words
5. Words form phrases
6. Phrases form sentences.

Consonants:

Swahili has 24 alphabets in Standard Swahili. Alphabets which are not used are Q and X. The alphabets are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z.

Five vowels are E, I, O, U.

Syllables are formed by combining a consonant and a vowel for example m and a to make ma, b and e to make be, k and u to make ku. , l and u to make lu, etc.

Also two consonants can be combined and a vowel to form a word such as:

Ch =  Cha i (tea)

Gh =  gh ali (expensive

Mb = mb oga (vegetables)

Nd = Nd ugu (relative)

Th= th amani (value)

Dh = Dh ambi (sin)

Mw = Mw alimu (teacher), etc.

Finally there are also words which can be formed by combinig three consonants and a vowel such as;

mbw =mbwa (a dog)

Nyw =nywele (hair)

Ngw= ngwada (a small boat for fishing)

Stadi za lugha/Study skills

Wakati wa kujifunza lugha, ziko stadi za kuzingatiwa ili kuwe na ufanisi, nazo ni:

When learning a language there are skills which have to be adhered to in order to be proficient and these are:

Stadi za lugha /Languge skills

1. Listening (Kusikiliza)
2. Speaking (Kuzungumza)
3. Reading (Kusoma)
4. Writing (Kuandika)

Stadi hizi zinatakiwa kuzingatiwa na mwalimu na zinaandamana na vitendo pamoja na vifaa vya aina mbalimbali vya kufundishia.

These skills will be used by a teacher accompanied by activities and equipment for teaching.