Karibu (Welcome)
KiSwahili is spoken by an estimated 80 million people in East and Central Africa. It is the official language in Tanzania and Kenya, and is also used in Uganda, Somalia, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Congo (formerly Zaire). The vast majority of speakers of KiSwahili are native speakers of other African languages and use KiSwahili as a lingua franca. After Arabic, KiSwahili is the most widely understood language in Africa.
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- Introduction to the KiSwahili Language
- Lesson 1: Classroom Instructions
- Lesson 2: Greetings
- Lesson 3: Classroom Vocabulary
- Lesson 4: Personal Pronouns
- Lesson 5: Possessive Pronouns
- Lesson 6: School Subjects
- Lesson 7: Languages, Countries and Nationality
- Lesson 8: Locations
- Lesson 9: Noun Classes
- Lesson 10: Family
- Lesson 11: The Verb -NA
- Lesson 12: Various Personalities and Professions
- Lesson 13: Tenses
- Lesson 14: Numbers and Counting
- Lesson 15: Days of the Week
- Lesson 16: Months of the Year
- Lesson 17: Time
- Lesson 18: Courses, Schedules, Routines
- Lesson 19: Household Chores and Daily Activities
- Lesson 20: Foods
- Lesson 21: Fruits
- Lesson 22: Drinks
- Lesson 23: Buying and Selling
- Lesson 24: Adjectives
- Lesson 25: Clothes
- Lesson 26: Colors
- Lesson 27: Decorations and Accessories
- Lesson 28: Proverbs
- Lesson 29: External Body Parts
- Lesson 30: Diseases
- Lesson 31: Subject and Object Prefixes
- Lesson 32: Interrogatives and Question Formation
- Lesson 33: Weather
- Lesson 34: Environment
- Lesson 35: Seasons
- Lesson 36: Housing and Accommodation
- Lesson 37: Places
- Lesson 38: Transport Mechanisms
- Lesson 39: The Conditional Markers -NGE- and -NGALI-
- Lesson 40: Locatives
- Lesson 41: Compass
- Lesson 42: Demonstratives
- Lesson 43: Imperatives
- Lesson 44: Prepositions
- Lesson 45: Possessive Pronouns
- Lesson 46: Reversives / Opposites
- Lesson 47: Sports
- Lesson 48: Tenses
- Lesson 49: Negation
- Lesson 50: Domestic Animals, Wild Animals & Tourist Attractions
- Lesson 51: Connective -A of Association
- Lesson 52: States of Being
- Lesson 53: Terms of Endearment
- Lesson 54: Reduplication
- Lesson 55: Subjunctive
- Lesson 56: Business: Shopping, Buying and Selling
- Lesson 57: Comparatives
- Lesson 58: Passive Verbs
- Lesson 59: Relative Marker AMBA- and -O- of Reference
- Lesson 60: Quantifiers -OTE and -O-OTE
- Lesson 61: Conjunctions
- Lesson 62: Letter Writing
- Lesson 63: Modifiers -INGI and -INGINE
- Lesson 64: Relative Marker -PO-
- Lesson 65: Musical Instruments