How do you learn to speak Swahili?

To learn to speak it, you'll have to have people to talk with. That might be hard to arrange. But here's what you can do in the meantime. Learn to read it! Get a "teach yourself" book, make flashcards, and find some easy texts to read, especially one's that exist with an English translation to help you. The Bible is an obvious choice.

Tigris has a good suggestion and a good website! But when you've learned some early basics, you certainly could benefit from practicing!

I used to live in Tanzania and I did pretty good talking in Swahili -- I lived in the village, and most people knew very little or no English. I came back to the States 3 years ago, and I could really use the practice if you'd like to "pen pal" a bit! My grammar isn't perfect by any means, but I myself would love the chance to stay in practice. I could always write in both languages so you can see translations...

I also have quite a few friends back in Tanzania who would love to have a pen pal also, if you would like.

Just a friendly offer of help! :)

http://fsi-language-courses.com/Swahili.aspx

In my opinion, the above is one of the best and most complete courses for learning the language on or offline...

Rosetta Stone will teach you how to say several basic sentences in Swahili, useful, practical sentences such as "This dog is brown." After wasting dozens and dozens of hours and hundreds and hundreds of dollars on Rosetta Stone, you won't even be able to make it one day in a Swahili speaking area. Just my opinion based on experience. (not with Swahili, though)

To my expertise, Swahili is an particularly complicated language, with an emphasis on the aural sound of the words (no longer basically the written be conscious). it may be no longer likely which you will hit upon a internet course, till it grow to be teleconferencing, as that is going to require you to the two pay attention to a close-by speaker and talk the language to somebody who would desire to choose your pronunciation. after all, you may would desire to pay for the course. a greater appropriate decision would be to learn colleges on your area that would coach that language and take a classification in individual. Your effects would be extremely greater appropriate!

Just more practice in using the language :) i'm from zanzibar/tanzania and i speak fluent swahili and if you would like to practice your swahili with me feel free to contact me.

http://www.rosettastone.com/personal/languages/swa...

The Kamusi project has some useful stuff. http://kamusiproject.org/

what the heck the Swahili people leave in??? and who they are??

Google it.