English to Kiswahili translation?
November 10, 2008 by Admin · 5 Comments
English to Kiswahili translation?
How do you say these words/phrases in Swahili:
‘love’ (the idea – ie NOT I love, NOT he loves, etc.)
‘Unity through education’
‘World Peace through education’
‘Opportunity’if you know any african phrases (english or swahili) similar to these topics, that would be great as well. please no online dictionary translations.
love = penzi
ni kweli penzi jipya lina nguvu za ajabu= It’s true that new love has amazing strength.
Opportunity= nafasi
Unity through education= Umoja kutipia elimu
World peace through education= Amani ya duniani kutipia elimu.
Swahili course 2008?
November 10, 2008 by Admin · 1 Comment
I’ m looking for a July course during which I want to learn Swahili. I’d like it to lead to a qualification of some sort, and either be one to one or with a group. Are there any courses anyone knows of at a college or a university: I cannot do the one year course at SOAS, and I already am following the Rosetta Stone course.
Thank you,
Katherine
Start with our recources section on learnswahili.net
Swahili translated into english (site or your help)?
November 10, 2008 by Admin · 2 Comments
Swahili translated into english (site or your help)?: I need to know how to say “Angel”, “God’s Gift”, “Star”, “Warrior” “Strong” and/or “Prince” in Swahili. Do you know a site where they do free translations or do you know how to say at least one of those? (if not please do not answer)
Here are the Swahili Translations:
angel – malaika (mar-lar-ee-car)
god’s gift – zawadi ya mungu (say- za-wer-dee yah moo-ngoo)
star – nyota (say nyor-ter)
warrior – mpiganaji
strong – nguvu (say ngoo-voo)
Learnig swahili?
November 10, 2008 by Admin · 2 Comments
do any one know how to learn swahili for free?
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I want to learn Russian, but I can’t understand my Swahili to Russian dictionary. What should I do?
November 7, 2008 by Admin · 16 Comments
I want to learn Russian, but I can't understand my Swahili to Russian dictionary. What should I do?
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how do you say this in Ki Swahili????
November 5, 2008 by Admin · 4 Comments
how do you say this in Ki Swahili? i wanted to say “You did not wear your special bag to school” in Swahili to my mate from Kenya, lol, (its a long story) does anyone speak Swahili here? I would love to ask someone for a few translations
Daniel
Swahili Translation by one of our blog readers: “Siyo umevaa mfuko wako maalum shuleni”
Snisper – bounce
November 3, 2008 by Admin · Leave a Comment
Swahili Music – Sniper Bounce
swahili music east africa
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GCA – Typical Home Movie in the Masai Boma
November 3, 2008 by Admin · Leave a Comment
Great Commission Air visit to Tanzania invited to a Masai wedding. This is a typical Boma or village. You can hear someone talking to a child
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Request for Swahili native speakers
November 3, 2008 by Admin · 2 Comments
Greetings!
I would be very glad if there were some Swahili native speakers here who would take a little time to help me by evaluating some sentences.
As I don’t really know to speak Swahili there might be some mistakes in, for instance, Subject-Verb-agreement. This is not, what interests me, actually. So, if I made any such mistake, it would be great if you could just correct me there and ignore that mistake for the evaluation of the sentence.
What I’m interested in is the following:
Out of verbs like -fungua you can build forms like fungu-k-a for sentences like English: “The door opens”. I would like to know for some more verbs, if you can convert them like that and how their meaning changes.
So, I will post some words/word groups, and you could tell me if you can use them like that, or if you can use them maybe in another context.
(I will add an intended reading/translation in brackets for my own understanding – if you notice mistakes in that rough translations, great if you notice me in case of mistakes as well!)
1) Halima a-na-soma kitabu (read)
2) Kitabu ki-na-som-ek-a
3) Halima a-na-som-ek-a
4)) Meli zi-na-zama (ship, sink)
5) Meli zi-na-zam-ek-a
6) Juma a-na-lala (sleep)
7) Juma a-na-lal-ek-a
Njumba i-na-waka (house, burn)
9) Njumba i-na-ungua
10) Njumba i-na-ungu-k-a
And a few more word groups; here I’m interested more in the word order and, other than in the examples above, the subject-verb-agreement.
Is this acceptable Swahili?
11) kijiji-ni pa-li-lala Juma
(in the village sleeps Juma)
12) kijiji ki-li-lala Juma
13) mtungi-ni pa-na-chemka maji
(in the pot water boils water)
14) mtungi u(?)-na-chemka maji
And for the following, are the statements utterable with the i- in front of the verb?
15) i-na-lala Halima
(it sleeps Halima)
16) i-na-ungua/waka mji
(it burns the city)
17) i-na-fung-uk-a mlango
(it opens the door)
18) i-na-fik-ik-a
(it is accessible??)
19) i-na-fungu-ka
(it is open-able)
20) i-na-lala
(meaning?)
21) i-na-lal-ek-a
(meaning??!)
So far for now. I’d be really glad if some people would help me, if just by evaluating a part of the sentences…
Asante sana!
Hi Groeg,
Apparently, there are not many Swahili (native) speakers on this forum…try contacting them here:
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Search.asp?selX3=43&selX6=1&selCountry=null&txtAgeMin=&txtAgeMax=&submit1=Search
is learning swahili difficult?
November 3, 2008 by Admin · 5 Comments
i decided i want to learn it, maybe you guys could give me some suggestions on books to help me learn
Sorry! I probably only know the day and year word but the only Swahilian word I could only think of is the word mwaka because I was interested into looking up how to say the English word "year" in many different languages. I only know that people in Swahili call 1 revolution around the sun there a mwaka. I don't even know how to pronounce mwaka. Is there a silent character in this word?
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