Course Description

In second year first semester Swahili, students continue to improve communicative competence by expanding basic sentence structures to more complex sentences and acquire a wider range of vocabulary for everyday life situations. By the end of the semester, students will be able to understand paragraph -length passages pertaining  to daily topics such as travel, life in rural and urban areas, occupations, likes and dislikes and life in East Africa. Students will be able to organize their thoughts in simple short essays and can sustain a conversation in familiar topics such as described above.  The aim of the course is to develop literacy in Swahili, Swahili that allows student to function (ie. ability to understand and be understood in meaningful linguistic and cultural exchanges) in Swahili speaking regions of Africa.