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Swahili

A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

23 lessons

Lesson 1### Introduction Lesson 2In Swahili, the Lesson 3and. Lesson 4The English indefinite Lesson 5of Lesson 6to Lesson 7In expresses Lesson 8In Swahili, "I Lesson 9you Lesson 10it Lesson 11have Lesson 12to Lesson 13that Lesson 14The English word Lesson 15do Lesson 16Yeye Lesson 17na Lesson 18on Lesson 19this. Lesson 20In Swahili, "don't Lesson 21 Lesson 22 Lesson 23but