Resources to Learn Swahili!

Online courses, videos, etc. to help you learn Swahili!

“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.” - David Attenborough

Online Resources

• Swahili Language Brochure (National African Language Resource Center)

• This list of resources from the Discover Discomfort blog

• Duolingo - Swahili (Good for vocab and nothing else in my opinion)

• This list of resources from St. Lawrence University

• FSI Swahili Courses (Created by the Foreign Service Institute - Free)

• Swahili Children’s books (Good practice when you are starting out!)

Textbooks

*These are links to websites where you can download these textbooks in pdf form for free, I use all of these books myself and downloaded them at these websites. I’ve had no trouble with anything so far. :)*

• Swahili by National African Language Resource Center

• Colloquial Swahili: The Complete Course for Beginners by Donovan McGrath, Lutz Marten (Review on Goodreads)

• Swahili Grammar and Workbook by Fidèle Mpiranya (Review on Goodreads)

Youtube

• Channels:

• SwahiliPod (Great for vocabulary)

• Learn Swahili With Patricia (Relatively new but a good resource)

• FCLangMedia (Playlist of videos - wonderful!)

• Videos:

• Langfocus - Swahili (About the history of the language)

*There are different types of Swahili (Kiswahili), Tanzanian and Kenyan, and I'm not sure which of these sources are for which!*