By the end
What you'll build
- Read any Swahili word aloud correctly at first sight
- Produce the five pure vowels without English diphthongs
- Handle the prenasalised consonants mb, nd, ng, nj and ny
- Apply the fixed penultimate stress rule
- Recognise that Swahili nouns come in classes marked by prefix
- Greet, thank and introduce yourself
Curriculum
What's inside
1 module · 10 lessons
- 01
The Sound System
10 lessons- Find Your Level — Read This First
- Find Your Level — 5-Minute Placement Checkquiz
- Why Swahili Is Easy to Read
- The Vowels and the Nasalspronunciation card
- Tongue Twisters: The Clusterstongue twister
- + 5 more lessons
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
10 lessons across 1 module, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.