If South Africans are enabled to speak a variety of languages from their own continent, they will then be better able to take part in building not only their own country but also building Africa as a continent. I cannot identify any — if the process is carefully managed. This can all be done. South Africa needs to invest in textbooks, curriculum experts and researchers who can help guide the policy around Kiswahili.
The only area that might be a struggle is the provision of qualified teachers. The country must look to places like Kenya and Tanzania, which graduates tens of thousands of teachers annually who cannot find work in their home countries.
They can be the first source of teachers. Secondly, South African universities can introduce short courses in Kiswahili to prepare a mass of native South Africans to be the next batch of teachers.
But with the roll-out date set for , Motshekga warns that the plan will not come easy — or cheap. South African politician Julius Malema is advocating for Swahili to become a lingua franca in Africa. So what do Swahili speakers think? Unsurprisingly, many are excited at the prospect of their language spreading further across the continent. Sanelisiwe Ngidi, a young South African, isn't worried that it will pose a threat to other languages, jobs or the culture of South Africans.
Read more: Should African schools teach more local languages? But not everyone thinks introducing Swahili to South African classrooms is a good idea. Peter Siyanweo is currently unemployed, and believes the government should be spending its money elsewhere if it wants to help the young generation. Now they want to invest in useless stuff. But Sipho Mutema, a teacher and principal at the Christians' Institute of Learning in Hilbrow, Johannesburg, thinks an increase in the number of Kiswahili speakers could be very useful in the long run and help combat the increase in xenophobic violence across South Africa.
Benoit Nzokizwa, a researcher and doctorate student from Burundi, says there is no better language than Kiswahili to bridge the growing social divide in South Africa. There are about 16 million people throughout the world who speak a dialect of Swahili as a native language.
As a second language, it has about 82 million speakers. The language is considered to be the lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and southeastern Africa.
Most native speakers of Swahili — about 15 million — are concentrated in Tanzania, where the tongue is a national language. Other than Arabic, Swahili has been influenced and taken some words from English, for example: polisi , police boksi , box hoteli , hotel televisheni , television baiskeli , bicycle hospitali , hospital soksi , socks picha , picture muziki , music redio , radio.
The word safari means journey in Swahili. In English it means an expedition to observe, hunt animals in their natural habitats e.
National Parks in Africa or even Australia. The word chai means tea. Swahili is said to be the easiest African language for an English speaker to learn. Someone who speaks Arabic may find it easier to learn Swahili because Swahili is a combination of words from Arabic and the Bantu-speaking communities of East Africa. One of the main differences with English is that Swahili uses particles at the beginning of the word to indicate verb tense present, past, future and person I, you, we, they, etc.
For example, from the verb kwenda , to go , I am going is nina-kwenda. Ni indicates I and na the present tense. Wale wari wa Liwale wala wali wa Liwali Those from Liwale eat the rice of chief Liwale Here Liwale is both a district in Tanzania and the name of a chief. Mjomba mjomba kamchapa mkia wa komba Uncle beats someone with a tail of a bush baby. Kichwa cha twiga. Mpishi mbishi kapika mchicha mbichi. A chef has cooked spinach that turned out undercooked.
Kikusikitishacho is the longest word in Swahili. Mtoto alitumwa gazeti la tarehe nane 8 , akaenda kwa muuza magazeti kununua gazeti lakini alipofika alikuta gazeti la tarehe nane hakuna kwa hiyo akachukua magazeti ya tarehe nne 4 mawili.
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