By the end
What you'll build
- Run a full Swahili greeting exchange without cutting it short
- Use shikamoo and the respect forms for elders correctly
- Handle numbers, prices and bargaining
- Order food and navigate a meal
- Use public transport and ask for directions
- Apply the courtesies that shape everyday East African interaction
Curriculum
What's inside
2 modules · 13 lessons
- 01
Getting By
9 lessons- The Greeting Ritual
- Numbers, Money and the Market
- Survival Vocabularyword power
- Listening: Greeting, Then Businesslistening lab
- Speaking: Your First Exchangesspeaking lab
- + 4 more lessons
- 02
Survival Booster — Numbers, Food & Getting Around
4 lessons- Numbers, Money & Timeword power
- Food & Market Essentialsword power
- Listen: At the Marketlistening lab
- Say It: Ten Survival Phrasesspeaking lab
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
13 lessons across 2 modules, 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.