Swahili is one of the Bantu languages, which form the branch of the Niger-Congo family. Its vocabulary is basically Bantu, but many words are borrowed from Arabic.
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Nicholas Awde is a writer and regional consultant based in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Peter Maghashyan is a freelance journalist, analyst, and consultant on regional, political, and economic issues. He is based in Yerevan, Armenia.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical indeed, and very handy!,
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This review is from: Swahili-English, English-Swahili Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) (Paperback)
This Swahili-English / English-Swahili pocket dictionary is very handy. Its 596 pages cover over 35,000 entries in both languages. The English words have the phonetic transcriptions, whereas the Swahili nouns have their plurals shown in brackets.
As it is written in the foreword, this practical dictionary proves to be "an aid in navigating the growing global vocabulary of politics, telecommunications, computers, the Internet, tourism, business and travel." At the end of the book there are some useful pages on English irregular verbs (infinitive Swahili verbs are given in brackets), Swahili noun classes, useful phrases and vocabulary, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, weighs and measures, time, days of the week, months, star signs.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not so very good,
By Katya (Tanzania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Swahili-English, English-Swahili Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) (Paperback)
Yes, this dictionary has lots of words (as another reviewer states), but that doesn't make it great. It does not tell you the most important thing about Swahili nouns - what class they are in. This means that for the learner, the dictionary is pretty useless if you're trying to construct a decent sentence!
Unfortunately it's pretty much the only big dictionary available so you probably have to buy it, but don't expect too much from it.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of words, somewhat less actual help,
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This review is from: Swahili-English, English-Swahili Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) (Paperback)
This is the biggest English-Swahili/Swahili-English dictionary I've seen, but it doesn't offer much beyond the words. I have had some success using it in conjunction with the Pimsleur audio course, which I think is really good, but on it's own I don't believe this item would be much help. I'd love to see some usage notes or idiomatic translations.
If all you need are the words themselves, this is the dictionary for you. On the other hand, if you want to learn to use the words conversationally, this is at best one tool you'll want in your toolkit.
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