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Colloquial

Swahili

The Colloquial Series

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Colloquial

Swahili

The Complete Course

for Beginners

Donovan McGrath and Lutz Marten

First published in 2003 by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

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This book is dedicated to the memory

of my brother Michael

D. McG.

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Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 Karibu! 9

Welcome!

2 Unatoka wapi? 26

Where do you come from?

3 Familia 44

The family

4 Kusaﬁri 61

Travelling

5 Safarini 79

On the move

6 Shambani 97

In the countryside

7 Ugonjwa na matibabu 113

Sickness and medical treatment

8 Kutembelea 132

Visiting

9 Kufanya utaﬁti wa jamii 150

Doing social research

10 Sherehe ya arusi 164

A wedding celebration

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11 Taabu za nyumbani 180

Trouble at home

12 Hadithi na magazeti 194

Stories and newspapers

13 Mawasiliano 209

Communications

14 Muziki wa aina mbalimbali 222

Various kinds of music

Key to exercises 231

Swahili–English glossary 265

English–Swahili glossary 281

Language structure index 296

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Ben Rawlence for helping with the audioscripts

and Lauren Jeffs for helping with the manuscript and audioscripts.

We would also like to express our thanks to: our teachers Sauda

Barwani, Ridder Samsom, Thilo Schadeberg, Farouk Topan,

friends, teachers and students at the School of Oriental and African

Studies in London, Muhammed Said Ali and his colleagues from

the Institute of Kiswahili and Foreign Languages in Zanzibar,

lecturers and students from the Department of Kiswahili at the

University of Dar es Salaam, in particular Kimizi Moshi and

Chambala Mtumwa; Iyola Solanke and students from the Swahili

workshop at the Community College Hackney in London, espe-

cially David Payne for his comments on early units, and Rukiza

Okera for his musical contribution; African Studies lecturer Femi

Biko, Yvonne Munnichs, an anonymous reviewer for detailed

comments and suggestions, and the editorial and production staff

at Routledge’s Language Learning section, as well as all those who

have helped to make this book possible. Finally, we would like to

thank our families and beloved partners, Lauren and Nancy, for

their love and support throughout this project.

Donovan McGrath and

Lutz Marten

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