The primary focus of Elementary Swahili AB is to get the anyone to gain basic knowledge and mastery of written and spoken Swahili. The course aims to trainstudents to write, read, speak, understandand be understood by anyone that speaksor reads Swahili. 

Provided that learners attend class regularly and participate actively, complete all the homework, and do their course work well, the general language proficiency will rank between INTERMEDIATE LOW and INTERMEDIATE HIGH as defined by the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). Students are able to handle successfully a limited number of uncomplicated communicative in a straight forward social situations