Swahili Vocabulary

Learning how to speak Swahili is not as difficult as it seems. When you decide to learn a second language you will quickly find out that it mainly consists of a lot of memorization. Learning the Swahili language is no different. Memorizing vocabulary words will make up the bulk of your language learning efforts. If you need some suggestions for how to boost your Swahili vocabulary below are a few ideas.

Memorizing words takes a lot of repetition, but there are also ways to make it fun. Swahili words are easy to read because they sound exactly the way they are spelled. One easy trick to memorizing large lists of words is to write them down by hand over and over again until you’ve committed them to memory. Although this can take a while it is one of the best ways to memorize anything. There is something about the act of putting a pencil or pen to paper and writing down each word that helps it stick in your mind.

As you’re learning how to speak Swahili you will come across a lot of words that are difficult to remember only because you haven’t had much practice with them. An easy way to fix this problem is to string the word together to a melody and make a song out of them. This works best when the song actually makes sense and means something. If you need help finding a song why not try looking up popular Swahili songs and videos online? After you’ve translated them play the song until you have memorized it. Not only will you quickly learn the associated Swahili vocabulary words, but you will also have new music to listen to.

Similar to learning music, watching Swahili movies can help you learn the language quickly and easily. When you’re watching a movie you will pick up words and phrases in combinations that are commonly used by people who speak Swahili. In addition, you’ll be able to hear how the words are pronounced. Don’t forget to play the captions or you won’t know the meaning of the words you are listening to.

There are many ways to add to your vocabulary when you are trying to learn Swahili and the above tips are not only helpful, but they are fun. It’s important to keep your language learning interesting or you might not want to keep learning as your lessons become more difficult.