Comments/Feedback on 2,000 words Swahili (Intermediate/Advanced)

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You’re welcome to post any comments or feedback on 2,000 words Swahili (Intermediate/Advanced) here.

Thanks,
jacaks

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Thank you very much for creating the course! It’s always useful to paste the link to the course in concern.

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Thank you very much for creating this course! It is really comprehensive and helping me a lot :slight_smile:

Sometimes I notice words which I feel are not completely correct, and I will post them here so maybe they can be changed. For now I am just noting a few from level 6, as that’s what I was studying today:

  • nyambo ya (beyond, on the other side of) - I have been taught this as “ng’ambo ya”
  • blashi (brush) should be brashi
  • nyongeza - rather than “giveaway”, I would translate this as “addition” or “supplement”
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Thanks, this is really helpful. You are right on all three points, I’ll correct the wordlist. Please keep these helpful comments coming!

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Thank you for making those changes! A few more suggestions :slight_smile:

Level 2: kiko (pipe) - maybe clarify that this is a tobacco pipe only (right?)
Level 4: kupona (to be healthy) - more accurate translation would be ’to recover, heal’
Level 4: kuisha (to finish) - subtle difference but I learned this as ’to end’ whereas ’to finish/complete’ is normally ‘kumaliza’
Level 5: kuchefua (to make sick) - more accurate might be ’to disturb, upset’ (uchefu = disturbance)
Level 7: mwenyeji (person who lives there) - indeed resident/native person, can also mean ‘host’ (in the sense of person receiving guest)
Level 8: msumeno (saw) - also ’sickle’ (the farming tool)
Level 8: kujikita (to boast) - when I look this up I find the translation as 'to be rooted, firmly established’ (derived from kiti = chair) or in some places as ’to focus, settle on’

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Thanks, made a few corrections, but I didn’t find evidence in my dictionaries or on the internet for your suggestions re kuchefua and msumeno. For kujikita, my dictionary does give the additional meaning of holding firmly, so I added that.