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Swahili as a Second Language @ (KSLT)
Day, Evening and Saturday Programs
If learning Swahili in Dodoma. is your goal, you have come to the right place! We offer a wide variety of Swahili programs ranging from our intensive day program with 25 hours per week and 12 different levels to customized private lessons with your own private Swahili tutor. KSLT has become known for its excellent teaching and friendly atmosphere and is committed to providing quality language instruction as well as the help, services, and support our students need to study the language.
ABOUT SWAHILI
Swahili is traditionally regarded as being the language of coastal areas of
Tanzania and
Kenya, formalised after independence by presidents of the
African Great Lakes region. It was first spoken by natives of the coastal mainland and spread as a fisherman's language to the various islands surrounding the
Swahili Coast. Traders from these islands had extensive contact with the coastal peoples from at least the 2nd century A.D. and Swahili began to spread along the Swahili Coast from at least the 6th century. There is also cultural evidence of early
Zaramo people settlement on Zanzibar from
Dar-es-salaam in present-day
Tanzania. The African population of the island holds the tradition that it is descended from these early settlers
NOW it is the most widely spoken African language in the world, with over 50 million speakers. It is used as a lingua franca or trade language by many people in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, southern Somalia and northern coastal Mozambique. A version of Kiswahili is spoken as a first language by several million people in the eastern part of D.R. Congo. Most people in Kenya today speak at least some Kiswahili, and throughout Tanzania it is fast replacing local tongues as the first language of the new generation of children. If you plan to live, work, or travel in any of these areas, some knowledge of Kiswahili will help you communicate the way you want to.
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