Description

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BEGINNING SWAHILI WORKBOOK MAZOEZI YA WANAFUNZI WA MWAKA WA KWANZA This is an updated, comprehensive and richly detailed workbook designed to accompany users of Swahili: A Foundation for Speaking, Reading, and Writing by Thomas J. Hinnebusch and Sarah M. Mirza (1997). It provides extensive exercises, drills, and homework in varied forms to facilitate students acquisition of all the major communication skills. In addition, it introduces the noun groups and verb conjugation, making this book invaluable even for intermediate Swahili students. For those students who love a challenge and fun as they study Swahili, this is the work book to have.

About the Author

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Rose Sau Lugano holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania State where she graduated in 2005. She is currently teaching Swahili language and African literature at University of Florida, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, a job she has held since 2004. She has taught Swahili language and literature at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya from 1989-1999. She has been teaching Kiswahili as a foreign language since 1988, to students in study abroad programs in Kenya, in American university setting and through the University of Florida's Center for African Studies outreach programs in Gainesville, Florida. She has worked as a Swahili language consultant for several organizations in areas of translation and developing testing materials.