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Dibaji vii Introduction ix PART ONE Lessons 1. The Swahili Pronunciation . . 2 2. Swahili Greetings And Manners . . . . . . . 4 3. The Classification of Swahili Nouns. . . . . . 7 4. The Swahili Adjective. . . 11 5. The MI - MI Class . . . . 15 6. The KI-VI Class . . . . . 17 7. The N Class. . . . . . . 19 8. The MA Class . . . . . . 22 9. The U Class. . . . . . . 24 10. The PA and KU Classes . . 27 11. Swahili Numbers. . . . . 28 12. Comparison. . . . . . . 32 13. The Swahili Verbs . . . . 34 14. KUWA, Kuwa Na, Kuwako . . . . . . . . 39 15. Who? Whose? Which? What? . . . . . . . . . 44 16. More About Personal Pronouns . . . . . . . . 48 17. The Swahili Negative Forms . . . . . . . . . 51 18. Orders And Wishes . . . 56 19. Demonstratives: This And That . . . . . . . . 64 20. Possessive Adjective . . . 65 21. The Conditional Tenses . . 69 22. The Passive Voice . . . . 72 CONTENTS 23. 1. The -EKA and LKA Tenses 76 2. Swahili Auxiliary Verbs . . . . . . . . . 77 24. The Impersonal and The Reciprocal Forms of Verbs . . . . . 79 25. The Relatives . . . . . . 84 26. Swahili Adverbs and Prepositions. . . . . 89 27. How to Tell time in Swahili 94 28. Nominal Prefixes. . . . . 96 PART TWO Lessons 29. Tatu na Watoto Wake Nyumbani . . . . . . . 100 30. Tatu Aenda Sokoni . . . . 106 31. Dukani . . . . . . . . . 110 32. Barabarani . . . . . . . 113 33. Tatu Baharini . . . . . . 116 34. Tatu Serengeti. . . . . . 119 35. Bars and Restaurants . . . 123 36. Kiwanja cha Ndege. . . . 125 37. Kazini . . . . . . . . . 130 38. Shule Yetu . . . . . . . 134 39. Conversation . . . . . . 137 40. Siasa ya Tanzania . . . . 139 41. Tatu Aenda Posta . . . . 143 KEY TO EXERCISES 1. Part One . . . . . . . 148 2. Part Two . . . . . . . 166 VOCABULARY 1. Swahili-English . . . . 189 2. English-Swahili . . . . 227 3. Swahili-Nouns. . . . . 238 ...