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Learn how to speak Swahili
Swahili, also known as
Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the
Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great
Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including
Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. The closely related
Comorian language, spoken in the Comoros Islands, is
sometimes considered a dialect.
Although only around five to fifteen million people speak
Swahili as their first language, it is used as a lingua
franca in much of Southeast Africa. Estimates of the total
number of Swahili speakers vary widely, from 60 million to
over 150 million. Swahili serves as a national language of
four nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Shikomor, the official language in
Comoros and also spoken in Mayotte (Shimaore), is related to
Swahili. Swahili is also one of the working languages of the
African Union and one of the official languages of the East
African Community.
This foreign
language course was developed by The Foreign Services
institute. It is meant to be used as a crash course in
a foreign language for basic conversational ability by a
foreign traveler or diplomat. It is an introductory
course meant for beginners and includes basic conversational
language by native speakers.
This course
consists of 146 lessons in mp3 format, with 2 student texts
in PDF format of over 700 pages. Adobe Reader is
required to view the PDF files, while the mp3 files can be
listened to by any audio player on your PC.
Total run
time of course: 18 hours, 18 minutes, 9 seconds.
A must have resource for any foreign traveler!
Notice:
Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's
drive! It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to
your TV or the CD player in your car!
This is a CD-ROM disk, so you need a CD-ROM drive on your
PC to play it.
This disk contains this
foreign language course in MP3 format. This is not for
use in your CD player, it is not for your DVD player, even
if they play MP3 disks. This disk is only formatted to
be opened in your computer. You have to insert this
disk in your PC, click on "My Computer" and click on the
disk to open the files. You can copy the MP3 files to
your PC, and then load them on to any MP3 player of your
choice. Please note: that if you try to
play this disk on anything other than your computer, it
won't work! |
