Levels taught

      Four levels of Kiswahili are taught at the University of Pennsylvania:

      elementary

      : Part 1 : Part 2

      Instructor:Denis Onyango
      intermediate
      Instructor: Ms Elaine Elaine Mshomba
      advanced
      Instructor: Ms Elaine Elaine Mshomba
      intensive (elementary) (offered every spring and summer)
      Instructor: Ms Elaine Elaine Mshomba
      Bridge course (Fourth year Swahili)

      Web exercises

      Kiswahili Web exercises developed at Penn.

      Jarida la Kiswahili na karasa za web za wanafunzi

       

      • The Jarida la Kiswahili has essays written by Kiswahili students at Penn. The first issue (Spring 97) has essays on different topics, and a poem.

        Taarifa ya habari (News broadcasts using 'realaudio')

      • KBC (Sauti ya Kiswahili ya Kenya)
      • Deutsche Welle (Sauti ya Kiswahili ya Ujerumani)
      • VOA(Sauti ya Kiswahili ya Amerika)
      • Habari kuhusu Sauti ya Kiswahili ya VOA
      • Idhaa ya Kiswahili - BBC London

        Other resources

      • A collection of links
      • Kiswahili at U of Wisconsin
      • The Kamusi Project - the Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
      • Lugha ya Kiswahili (vocabulary)
      • Introductory Kiswahili lessons
      • Audio visual resources

        For more information, please contact:

        African Studies Center
        645 Williams Hall
        Unversity of Pennsylvania
        Philadelphia, PA 19104
        Tel: 215 898 6971


    • Dr. Audrey N. Mbeje, mbeje@sas.upenn.edu
      African Language Coordinator
      visitors since April 10th, 1998