Learn Good SWAHILI: Step by Step: A Complete Language Textbook

By Zahir K Dhalla

An 800+ page textbook for anyone new to Swahili or wants to improve or brush up. Step by step explanation with examples and exercises, plus indexes, a 3,500+ bidirectional vocabulary* with mini-thesaurus**, and appendices. [*, ** - see examples below.] If you are going to East Africa, this is the text book you need to enhance your experience there, for being able to communicate with locals in their language is always most satisfying. ALL proceeds go to needy school children in Tanga, Tanzania, where the author was born, raised and finished high school. ----------------------------------- *An example of a vocabulary entry: lingana v match e.g. kusoma kwa mtoto kunalingana umri wake , the child's reading matches her age where "v" indicates verb. Note: All Swahili text in the book is italicized as seen above, to visually distinguish it from all the other English text. --------------------------------------------- **The built-in mini-thesaurus takes two forms: (1) Related Words e.g. the entry for " abadan " has Related Words, as follows: ["F" = foreign-origin; "adv" = adverb] abadan F adv always e.g. yeye abadan haridhi , he is never contented Related Words: baadaye , later/then daima , always halafu , then huenda , sometimes kabla ya , before kamwe , never kila mara , always kisha , afterwards milele , forever punde , shortly sasa , now zamani , earlier (2) Words grouped under the following categories: body, building structure, fauna, food, person, produce, terrain, tool, utensil, vegetation (including flora) and for adjectives, colours e.g. some of the entries under body are, in alphabetical order in English: [entries in brackets such as " (m,mi) " = (singular, plural prefixes); "n" = noun; "V", "xFF", "xFV", "U", "T" are noun groups as explained in Chapter 3: Nouns] mkono(m,mi) n body: arm V kwapa(-,ma) n body: armpit xFF mgongo(m,mi) n body: back V ndevu(-) n body: beard xFV mshipa(m,mi) n body: blood vessel V mfupa(m,mi) n body: bone V ubongo(u,m) n body: brain U ... tumbo(-,ma) n body: stomach xFF mkia(m,mi) n body: tail (animal) V paja(-,ma) n body: thigh xFF koo(-,ma) n body: throat xFF ulimi(ul,nd) n body: tongue U mkonga(m,mi) n body: trunk (elephant) V kiuno(ki,vi) n body: waist T (A total of over 70 entries under body )

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522774432
• ISBN13: 9781522774433
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 828 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.9" x 6.0"