Biggest challenges for Swahili speakers learning English
If you know what’s hard in advance, you can learn faster. These are the main things that slow down Swahili speakers when they learn English.
- •Swahili noun class system has no equivalent in English
- •Swahili verb prefixes encode subject, tense, and object — English uses separate words for each
- •English prepositions are unpredictable — Swahili uses different locative structures
- •Swahili has fewer vowel sounds — English vowel variety is challenging
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