What are you going to learn ?
I accommodate absolute beginners, intermediate, and advanced Swahili learners. After a brief evaluation of each student’s current language level, I will design a syllabus geared specifically for each student.
Typically, lessons will follow the general outline below.
- CONTENT FOR BEGINNERS:
- Self-introduction and greetings
- Numbers
- Telling time
- Positive Subject Prefix, Tense markers, and Verbs.
- Construction of Positive tense.
- Construction of Negative tense.
- Present Perfect tense marker “has and have” (Positive “me” and its Negative “ja”).
- Verbs “to have” and “to be” (Positive and Negative).
- CONTENT FOR INTERMEDIATE:
- Relative of time “when”
- Question words
- Object pronouns
- Prepositional form (someone doing something for, to, or on behalf of someone else)
- Subjunctive form
- Conditional tense marker
- Passive form
- Imperative form
- Prepositional “kwa”
- Reading skills
- STROV formula
- CONTENT FOR ADVANCED:
- Causative form
- Reciprocal form
- Reflexive form
- Noun Classes – introduction
- Noun Classes – in depth
- Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading and Writing skills
- Storytelling in Swahili