Swahili

This book covers the whole of the Swahili language, without being in any sense a formal grammar; in fact anyone should be able to teach himself from this book, even if ignorant of the grammatical terms used in it. Such terms there must be, partly for the sake of brevity and partly for the convenience of the index, but they are few, and all are explained fully as they occur. The book begins by explaining the construction of a Swahili sentence, using about a dozen of the commonest word, and the goes on to nouns, and then by the various verb tenses. All the time new word are introduced and a useful vocabulary is built up. After each lesson there is a list of new words and an exercise