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With the Rosetta Stone® method, you'll speak Swahili from the very first lesson. And you'll receive real-time feedback every time you speak. Our proprietary speech recognition engine, the most advanced in the industry, compares your pronunciation to millions of native speakers 100 times per second. Instant feedback means that at every step, you'll know exactly how you're doing.
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| 1 | Level One Foundation Gain Confidence by mastering basic conversational skills. This includes greetings, introductions, simple Q&As, and much more | Exchange simple greetings & farewells. | Introduce yourself, friends & family. | Go shopping & place orders. |
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| 3 | Level Three Exploration Learn to share your ideas and opinions, express feelings, and talk everyday life. This includes your interests, profession, current events, and more. | Health and well-being. | Weight and measure things. | Celebrate important events. |
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| 5 | Level Five Conversation Discuss entertainment, culture, government, and the marketplace. Level Five is the place to refine and perfect your conversational skills. | Talk about work in various industries. | Discuss pop culture, arts & entertainment. | Converse about school, work & studies. |
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Do you speak English?
Je, wewe huongea Kiingereza?
How much does this cost?
Hili ni bei gani?
What is your name?
Jina lako ni nani?
I would like to check in.
Ningependa kujiandikisha kwamba nimefika.
I have a reservation.
Nimeshika nafasi.
I would like the bill, please.
Ningependa unipe bili, tafadhali.
I am lost.
Nimepotea.
Excuse me. Where is the grocery store?
Samahani. Duka la mboga liko wapi?
Can you write it down?
Je, unaweza kuliandika mahali?
Swahili is an official language of Tanzania and Kenya, and it's used as a lingua franca throughout many parts of East Africa. Swahili is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family. Only about two-thirds of the Swahili lexicon is made up of Bantu words; the rest is comprised of words borrowed from other languages, like Arabic, Persian, English, German, Portuguese, and Malagasy.
Learn Swahili and gain access to the language used as a lingua franca throughout many parts of East Africa.
The earliest recorded Swahili, from 1711, was written in the Arabic script, but the Latin alphabet began to be used during European colonization of Africa in the nineteenth century. In the 1930s, British colonial authorities, together with African scholars, standardized spoken and written Swahili. Here's an interesting fact: The letters Q and X are not in the Swahili alphabet, and C is used only in combination with H.
The word Swahili is derived from an Arabic word referring to the coastline. In pre-colonial East Africa, the Swahili peoples lived along the coast and on the islands, participating in robust trade with Arabs, Persians, and others that lived around the Indian Ocean. Only in the early nineteenth century did Swahili influence spread inland.
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