| Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels: Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati Contributor(s): Almasi, Oswald (Author), Fallon, Michael David (Author), Wared, Nazish Pardhan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761863818 ISBN-13: 9780761863816 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $60.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Swahili |
| Dewey: 496.392 |
| LCCN: 2014937163 |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6.11" W x 8.95" (1.50 lbs) 462 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts covered in this book are greetings, numerals, telling the time, the Noun Class system, simple tenses such the past, present and future, adjectives and possessives. The book then progresses to more complex concepts such as Direct and Reported Speech, various verb typologies, other tenses, prepositions and conjunctions, adverbs and relative pronouns. Each chapter includes many examples and sample sentences, easy to read charts, practice questions, answers to the practice questions, and a list of new vocabulary used within the chapter. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence. |