Swahili Level 1

Fairfield language technologies
135 West Market Street | Harrisonburg, VA 22801
540-432-6166 | 800-788-0822 in USA and Canada
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MS Windows (Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP)
Macintosh (Mac OS 8.6 os later, including OS X)

Teach to student swahilis basic skills.

For beginners (ages 6 to adult)
Price are about GBP 139,00

English and Swahili

Language studies

I think this product is very easy to use and maybe with it you can really learn swahilis basic kills. But when you start program, you see only menu where you should to select some exercises, but every exercises are writen by swahili, so you really don't know what kind exercises there are.

When you click some exercises they are all basicly same kind. You see in your screen some pictures and words, which are writed by swahili and so you can learn these words. Next thing what you can do is some test, how well you are learned this exercises words. In every level you have this kind exercises. You have 4 different exersice in each task. One of exercises is this word study, one is listening exersices where you see some pic and then you have some sentences which you can listen, one exersices are listening exercises where you heard some swahili sentence and then you need to select what it was. And last exercises you heard four different swahili sentence and you need choose what was that sentence which are writen on your screen.

Then you have one tab for reading exercises and one to speaking exercises, in this exercises you can record your own speak and last tab are for writing exercises.

One thing what I was searching in this program was dictionary, but I didn't found it.

As a learning environment this program have five different subjects. And these all subjects serve learning goals very well. You don't need only read and write swahili words, but you can really practise as well speaking and program will analyse your speaking and articulation and tells in meter how wrong it was. For basic kills study this program gives all what you need. Only what you don't know when you are study these thing from program is grammer. With this program you get good curriculum text book, but all what is writen on it are in swahili. So it's little hard to understand it.

Overall I think this program is very handy in this subject area and if you like to learn swahilis basic kills.

Kijomba ni rahisi na masihara.

Useful Swahili words:
Ninakula - I am eating
Mimi - I
Wewe - You
Yeye - She and he
Sisi - We
Nyinyi - You
Wao - They
Ninaitwa Mauri. Wewe unaitwaje? - My name is Mauri. What's your name?
Ninaitwa ??????. Nimefurahi kukujua. - My name is ???????. I'm pleased to know you.
Habari - Hello/Hi
Samahani - Excuse me!
Asante - Thank you