Swahili-English/English-Swahili Practical Dictionary

This up-to-date dictionary has helped me significantly for increasing my Swahili vocabulary very rapidly. It has many additions in the new version, and is applicable to modern usage in East African countries, as well as American and British English. The shipping was prompt and the item was received without damage.

Hodi! This book was a lifesaver for me when I was learning Kiswahili. I was always hearing words I did not know, and found myself consulting this book multiple times a day. I highly recommend you use it in combination with immersion and a structured language course. I still use this book regularly, and find that it keeps me fluent.

This Swahili-English / English-Swahili pocket dictionary is very handy. Its 596 pages cover over 35,000 entries in both languages. The English words have the phonetic transcriptions, whereas the Swahili nouns have their plurals shown in brackets. As it is written in the foreword, this practical dictionary proves to be "an aid in navigating the growing global vocabulary of politics, telecommunications, computers, the Internet, tourism, business and travel." At the end of the book there are some useful pages on English irregular verbs (infinitive Swahili verbs are given in brackets), Swahili noun classes, useful phrases and vocabulary, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, weighs and measures, time, days of the week, months, star signs.

This small dictionary and phrase book fits easily into your lab coat pocket and will prove to be infinately helpful for physicians and students traveling among Swahili speaking populations. There is a small but comprehensive medical section in the back that outlines body parts and useful questions like, "are you having diarrhea".

This was the biggest swahili-english dictionary I saw, with a ton of words to help me learn more swahili!