LEARN AND TEACH SWAHILI BY YOURSELF (ADVANCED LEVEL): GRADE ELEVEN: HOW CAN YOU TEACH SWAHILI BY YOURSELF?

Learn and Teach Swahili by yourself is advanced stage of a Kiswahili learner as foreigner. With this stage you should be with your interaction with language because now you are comfortable at manipulating your own sentences and constructions. As reminded earlier in the beginner's level, Kiswahili language is among the easiest language to learn over the world’s languages. This is due the fact that, you pronounce a word as you write it. This is contrary to Indo-European languages such as German, English and French to mention just a few whose pronunciations are quite different from how they are written. With this book in your hand you will find your life very easy due to the friendly ways or learning this language as presented by your coach who is 'me'. I have enough experience on teaching Kiswahili as a second language for foreigners. Specifically I have taught students from ACM programme, Brown, Florida, Ohio and Georgetown all of these students were from United States of America. Also I taught students from Japan, China, South Korea, South Africa, Ghana, and UK. I have 12 years experience now in this field. I will give you a secret to fulfill your dreams. Here's the secret, in the first week after you have started learning or teaching this language by yourself, you should try to acquire more than fifty new vocabularies. In week two, three times of the first week. From the third week to a month, more than a thousand new vocabularies should be acquired. In addition to this, you as a learner you are supposed to construct five sentences in week one. In week two, you are supposed to write a story about half a page. Week three, you are supposed to write one page story while in week four, you should write two pages (I call them 'story' but you can just call essay). You can write about yourself or about your lovely dog. You can also write from the tours to museums, or trips to Mount Kilimanjaro or Serengeti. Or you can write from your experiences gained so far in your interaction with Kiswahili. Or otherwise you can compose or write a story or essay about what things made you happy or worse in a new environment (in case you have decided to travel abroad to Tanzania to have interaction with language, culture and people). Or you can write about your host family in Tanzania, et cetera. Kiswahili is one of the simplest languages to learn as I have said early and this is due to the fact that, “you write a word as it is pronounced” compared to other languages which differ in writing from the way they are pronounced. Interacting with native speakers will improve your pronunciation as long as you will listen to the way people communicate with each other. With this intermediate level the book will expose you to moderate complex Kiswahili grammatical processes that are crucial for your second step towards mastering Kiswahili language. Among the topics covered in this manual are as follows: Demonstratives in Kiswahilli; Association markers in Kiswahili; Relative markers; Passive voice; Causatives; Statives; Reciprocal; Applicative; Kiswahili word order; Useful Kiswahili phrases and Kiswahili colour system. Every topic has some examples on how to go about, together with simple exercises which have their answers at the back. Enjoy your study.