Swahili

Area where Swahili is spoken natively in Africa—it has spread further south and west as a regional lingua franca.

First Steps

• Introduction
• Pronunciation
• Greetings
• Personal Pronouns
• Common Phrases
• References and materials

First Lesson

• Verbs (General Structure, Subject Prefixes, Negation, Infinitive)
• Present (+Habitual)
• Nouns (Overview, Concept of Noun Classes, Concord)
• M/W

Second Lesson

• M/Mi
• Imperative and Subjunctive
• Past (Simple Past and Past Perfect)
• Questions

Third Lesson

• Ji/Ma
• Future
• Possesives
• Hotelini (Ordering at the Restaurant)

Fourth Lesson

• Ki/Vi
• Locative
• Demonstratives (Here, There and beyond)
• Directions (Telling the Way)

Fifth Lesson

• N/N
• Passive
• Numbers
• Cooking

Sixth Lesson

• U/N
• Object
• Family

Seventh Lesson

• Conditional
• "Already"
• Public Transport

Eighth Lesson

• Relative
• Participle
• Time

Ninth Lesson

• Single Syllable

Structured Overview

Verbs

• General (General Structure, Subject Prefixes, Negation)
• Present (+Habitual)
• Imperative
• Past (Simple Past and Past Perfect)
• Future
• Subjunctive
• "Already"
• Passive
• Object
• Conditional
• Relative
• Participle
• Locative
• Single Syllable
• Overview

Adjectives

• General
• Colors

Nouns

• General (Overview, Concept of Noun Classes, Concord)
• M/W
• M/Mi
• Ji/Ma
• Ki/Vi
• N/N
• U/N
• Overview

Questions

• General

Numbers

• Numbers

Demonstratives

• Demonstratives (Here, There and beyond)

Possesives

• Possesives

Time

• Time

Other

• Informal/Spoken Language
• Regional differences

Topics

• Greetings
• Hotelini (Ordering at the Restaurant)
• Directions (Telling the Way)
• Cooking
• Family
• Public Transport

Swahili I
Lesson One
Lesson Two
Lesson Three

Swahili II
Lesson One
Lesson Two
Lesson Three