Swahili is spoken Tanzania, Kenya, Ukanda, Rwanda, Burundi Congo, Somalia, Comoros Island, Mozambique, and Malawi.

Thank you for showing interest in learning this language, you have made the right dicision to study with us. we are going to take you step by step through out this program. Your fisrt lesson will be to get familiar  with the alphabets.

 Swahili has five vowel phonemes:   a    e   i    and    u

To start your lesson you must know how to pronounced this letters, and how the sound.

a  is pronounced like the   " a " in  Affer

e  is pronounced like the   " e " in  Ben

i  is pronounced like the   " i " in ski

o   is pronounced like the  " o "   home

u  is pronounced like the " u ku

Kwanza                               first or beginning.

Let's Start with this wards
Swahili                               English

           m. to. to                              child

ni.li.m.pi.ga                           I hit him

ndizi "banana" has two syllables, ndi.zi as does nenda ne.nda (not *[nen.da] ) "go".

Disclaimers

kusoma                               to  read

mahali                                 place

This will be the end of our lesson  for  today, if you like this program, you can
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Swahili language

Swahili                             English
Habari                                How are you doing
Habari ya asubuhi               Good Morning
Habari ya mchana               Good afternoon
Habari ya jioni                     Good evening
Kwa heri                             Goodbye
Vema                                 fine,okey,well,all right
Kam                                   come

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