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DJCat

The Duolingo tree for Swahili has been updated, there are now 4 checkpoints and many more lessons. The tree is still the old format, not the new path.

DJCat

Swahili compared to English uses noun classes does not use articles uses prefixes to bring verbs, adjectives, and demonstrative and possessive forms into agreement with the subject of a sentence it is completely phonetic it has one word for he and she verb structure is STROVE (Subject Prefix, Subje...

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I have it but never purchased it. I have never used it.

DJCat

panyamnyenyekevu wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:53 pm
DJCat wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:01 pm
Kuongea = to speak / talk e.g. unasema kifaransa (you speak French)

Is this use of “unasema” a typo? Sorry in advance if I’m off.

Yes it is, thanks for catching that, I will fix it

DJCat

For me: Canadian English - native (a combination of British and American English - spell like the British, speak like the Americans) Swahili - my partner is Tanzanian and none of his family speak English and I want to be able to communicate with them, also I will be moving to Tanzania French - took ...

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Kuongea = to speak / talk e.g. unaongea kifaransa (you speak French) Kusema = to say e.g. unaweza kusema hivyo tena? (can you say that again?) In some areas, kusema is only "to say" and you wouldn't use it to talk about speaking a language. Kuongea is commonly used to talk about speaking a...

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My dictionaries say the anywhere = mahali popote and nowhere = mahali pasipo but in Duolingo, it is leaving the word mahali out. Which is correct or are there certain circumstances where you use each? Thanks

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I think we need here SD sub-forums for each course. I suggested that too and I hope it can be done here. Otherwise this wouldn't be necessary if we actually KNEW if the SDs will stay locked forever or it will be just temporarily (I know Kevin said that he's 'fairly certain' that's the case). But th...

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According to KevinR..., this is a temporary thing. The trouble now is... with no more forum, Kevin won't be able to update about this either. This is in the FAQ on Duolingo, I don't think the sentence forums will ever change from read only. "What will happen to Sentence Discussions? Sentence d...

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I will keep my streak until I have finished the Swahili tree. I just use it to hold me accountable for studying (and not just in Duolingo).

DJCat

Swahili: paka

Paka anasema mwao (a cat says meow)

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I took the test, here are my results Our top three guesses for your English dialect: Canadian - correct American (Standard) South African This makes sense except the South African. I speak Western Canadian English but watch a lot of British TV so I would have thought that British English would have ...

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Here is a noun class table that my Swahili teacher gave to me and which I have added to. I hope it helps someone.

Kiswahili Noun Class Table.pdf: (115.9 KiB) Downloaded 78 times

Edit to add: if you want to print it you need 11x14 paper (not sure what that is in European sizes)

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I have a table I want to insert into a post. If I copy and paste it is just jibberish. How do I insert a table or upload a word document (with the table in it)? Thanks

DJCat

I put the flag of the country where I live.

DJCat

My goal is to increase my study time for Swahili. I have been studying for a few years but kind of just casually. This year I am really focusing on it. I am using Duolingo, Language Transfer, Mango Languages, Anki, and my grammar books and will start to incorporate listening via Youtube and more rea...

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I will stay with Duo until I finish the Swahili course. I find I am learning over there.

DJCat

I thought I would share some Swahili resources that I have found. Some are free and some are paid. http://www.africa.uga.edu/Kiswahili/doe/unitSelect.html https://languagedrops.com/language/learn-swahili https://www.ted.com/talks?sort=popular&language=sw (Ted Talks subtitled in Swahili) https://...

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Here are some stories for Swahili:

https://global-asp.github.io/storybooks ... tories/sw/

https://storyweaver.org.in/stories?lang ... rt=Ratings

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/library/lang35.html

https://www.storybookscanada.ca/stories/sw/

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Duolingo Swahili - Updated

Re: What's the difference between your L1 and your TL

Re: Change with the Streak Freeze

Re: Kuongea vs Kusema

Re: your languages

Re: Kuongea vs Kusema

Anywhere and Nowhere in Swahili

Re: All sentence discussions now read only!

Re: Sentence Discussion? No More!

Re: Are you keeping your streak after the forums close?

Re: Saying Cat in Different Languages

Re: (Archive) Quiz: Which English do you speak?

Noun Class Table

How to insert a table

Re: Is this new “Flag” supposed to classify your target language or your native language?

Re: What are your Language Learning Goals for 2022?

Re: Forum Use & Language Learning

Resources for Learning Swahili

Free Stories for Swahili