ONLINE SWAHILI LANGUAGE COURSES

Online self-paced video courses are provided at BEGINNERS LEVEL (Part 1 and Part 2) and LOWER-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, using the Lugha Swahili School Curriculum and course materials (created by Lugha Swahili School)

The courses are presented using PowerPoint Presentation slides (PDF). The course also includes weekly home exercises, quizzes and flashcards. In the sessions, the first section recaps the home exercises with homework answers provided. 

BEGINNERS COURSE is a basic Swahili lesson for beginners designed for you if you are completely new to the Kiswahili language and is tailored to enable you to begin speaking Kiswahili from the first session.

The course programme covers:
1) Introductions & Greetings
2) Personal Pronouns & Present Tense
3) Geography & Nationality
4) Numbers & Age 
5) Time & Day & Months
6) Food & Market
7) Colours & Family
8) Professions & Workplaces
9) Verbs Cont. (Past & Future)
10) Introduction to Noun Classes: Ki-Vi Noun Class

LOWER-INTERMEDIATE COURSE is a continuation of the beginner’s course, containing 9 lesson topics, 6 theoretical with exercises and 3 recap practical sessions. 

The course programme covers:
1) Tense Negations
2) Hobbies & Prepositional Form of Verbs
3) Practical Session
4) MA Plural Noun Class & M-Mi Noun Class
5) Travel, Tourism & Object Markers
6) Practical Session
7) Locatives & Around the House
8) Adjectives
9) Practical Session

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