Colloquial Swahili: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) - Softcover

Marten, Lutz; Mcgrath, Donovan Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415575443 ISBN 13: 9780415575447

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

COLLOQUIAL SWAHILI is easy to use and completely up to date!

Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Swahili. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes this new edition of COLLOQUIAL SWAHILI your best choice in personal language learning?

• Interactive – lots of exercises for regular practice
• Clear – concise grammar notes
• Practical – useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
• Complete – including answer key and reference section

Whether you’re a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday – if you’d like to get up and running with Swahili, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.

Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on two CDs or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value COLLOQUIAL SWAHILI paperback and CDs complete course. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

About this title

About the Author:

Lutz Marten has worked and studied in Hamburg, London, and Dar es Salaam. He is currently a Millennium Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he works on the dynamics of interpretation and the relation between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as
well as on the analysis of African languages, especially Swahili.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415575443
• ISBN 13: 9780415575447
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352