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A COMPLETE COURSE
FOR BEGINNERS
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Khalfan Mohamed and Abdulwahid Mazrui
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
‘Thanks to the Living Language team: Ton Russell, Nicole: enhabib,
Christopher Wamasch, 7viezdana Verzich, Suzanne Me(luse,
Shaina Melkin, Elhamn Shabahat, Sophie Chin, Denise De Gennaro, Linda
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DEDICATION
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Course Outline
Inuroduetion ix
How lo Use This Course fx
Swahili Spelling and Pronunciation
VOCABULARY
IGRAMMAR
teSsawrHgd Anarene ek koe a Py
Saying heflo and good-bye, other
‘grootings and courirsy expressions
Subject Pronouns
Subject Prefixes an Verbs
Verb Conju
Present Teuse of "to Be”
Yes/Nu Questions
Negalion of "to Be”
LESSON 3 ay FATHER Aybsay wOTgtge ae Fas
Talking about the family
Noun Classes and the Af Wa Class
Demonstratives
Possessives
Negation in the Present Tense
vtesson 3 tuenmdsé Jw peaunsuy «FF
Around the hotne, everyday
objects
| the ki vi Noun Class:
Ageeement with Noun Classes
The N Class
“To Have”
Adjectives
Hasson & wilat Tie Dotyou" sey Up?” s as3
Everyday actions and coutines
The Tabitual Tense
The Days of the Weck
Numbers 1 20
Telling time
Expressing *Ol” and Possession
VOCABULARY
GRAMMAR
estod gy at stag"
School subjects, studying
‘Tho Past ‘Tense of "to Be" and "ta
Have"
‘The: Negative Past Tense
Agreement with N- Gass Nouns
Numbers 21~1,000
‘Ladsoi.d soy hal Heys tae
Talking avout travel
The Jia Noun Class
subject Prefixes for the fi-Ma
Noun Class,
fidta Possessive Prefixes,
JeMa Adjpotive Agreement
Expressing Location with ~ko,
pon] - m0
Past and Future Tenses with po,
ke, and m0
“Lesson? chyhigiphyoph set ey 6 a sen
Making an appointment, using
the telephone
Commands
The Future Tense:
Manosyllabic Verbs
Dates, Months, and Years
LessoWe 14 Like FUT SOME @OTHES 6 = Hoy
Clothing and shopping.
EESSONS 9 HEOD DO! «#6
Food and restaurants
Course Outline
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‘Questions and Question Wards
| Review of Subject, Adjective,
Ponsessive, and Location Prefixes
Review of Demonstratives
Review of Kinv: Naj“to Have”
Review of Fossessive -a
kia Ws
‘The MMi Glass
M Afi Subject, Adjective,
Possessive, and Location Prefines
M Mi Demonstratives
VOCABULARY GRAMMAR
Kawa Nato Have” with MERE
Nouns
ossessive: -a with MEA Nouns
‘pessou na array Osbyfge «ae rm ays
Talking about health aud the body | Vowel Adjectives
The Causative Extension
Lhe Suijunctive
“REsSOn tn'gt Ay gitéanen care © f * Fis
Computers andl the internet The Pertuct Tense
The Perfect with -mesha
The Passive Voice
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another)
Asking “Which ?*
‘ybshoy shvogaig soma emauk,! Fg eine
Money and banking pressing "A re Whol
feat
Exprossing “Any* [-a ate]
Expressing Possession with ~enye
The U Noun Class
sLessew ty DEcaPRTIpNS a" e > @ 29 8 * See,
Jobs, professions, and occupations | Object Intixes for Peapte:
The Kee Chass
piu
“pes sOy gu: taee sine Ft aoe
Hobbies eutertainment, and “Object dafixes for Things
leisure time activities “the Keflenive inf
‘The Mahali Noun Classy
Lesson ss SRoeTs ano tHe ouroadas 2” 4” mas
Outdoor activitins, sports, ane Relative Pronouns
recreation
Expressing When’ with -po-
expressing “Wwith =k and
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Swailt English Glossary 243
Singlish-Swaili Glossary 267
Cousse Outline
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