This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts covered in this book are greetings, numerals, telling the time, the Noun Class system, simple tenses such the past, present and future, adjectives and possessives. The book then progresses to more complex concepts such as Direct and Reported Speech, various verb typologies, other tenses, prepositions and conjunctions, adverbs and relative pronouns. Each chapter includes many examples and sample sentences, easy to read charts, practice questions, answers to the practice questions, and a list of new vocabulary used within the chapter. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence.



Autorentext

Oswald Almasi was born in Tanzania and educated at the University of Dar-es-Salaam. He has been an educator for more than 40 years, in the last 17 years as a professor of Swahili at the University of Toronto and also at York University since 2005.

Titel
Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels
Untertitel
Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati
EAN
9780761879817
Format
PDF
Veröffentlichung
24.09.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.12 MB
Anzahl Seiten
462