Swahili Beginners Course

We offer a three weeks swahili beginners course five times in a year, with a total of 90 teaching hours including excursions and language immersion sessions. This programme is intended for participants who have recently arrived in East Africa and require a basic introduction to the swahili language.

Course Code

SB 1-5

Course duration

3 weeks

When is the course

04 - 22 February 2013

04 - 22 March 2013

08 - 26 April 2013

12 - 30 August 2013

09 - 29 September 2013

Course Objectives

To enhance participant’s to converse with ease, using survival language in communities and at workplace.

Course Content

Greetings, self introduction, ordering food & drinks, bargaining & buying at a shop/market, introducing family members, talking about present, past and future activities, Swahili time telling, talking about others, talking about health problems, giving and receiving directions / instructions, describing a place.

Methodologies

Interactive methods:

• Communicative approach (Competence based approach)

• Immersion approach

• Task based approach

• Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling or (TPRS) approach

• Grammar approach & audio lingual approach

• Propriocepitve approach

Target Group

Development workers, missionaries, doctors, expatriates, researchers, tourists, students and anyone who requires to learn swahili language at beginners level.

Fee for the course

Single Room Accommodation US$ 2220
Shared double Accommodation US$1890
(incl. Tuition and full board)