Colloquial SomaliColloquial Somali Is specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Somali. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD/MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquial pack. Recorded by native speakers, these will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
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Contents
Acknowledgements | vii |
Introduction | viii |
How are you? | 11 |
Good morning | 26 |
Bill and Zaynab | 38 |
Bill is going to the Horn of Africa | 56 |
The airport | 72 |
The taxi | 88 |
The beginning of the journey | 147 |
Staying in a village | 165 |
Are you ill? | 184 |
The newspaper | 203 |
The radio | 223 |
Grammatical tables | 237 |
Key to exercises | 248 |
EnglishSomali glossary | 266 |
The hotel | 105 |
Bill makes a telephone call | 117 |
Bill changes some money | 131 |
SomaliEnglish glossary | 279 |
Index | 293 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives aqaan attrib Axmed ay taa ayaa aynu baad baan badan BILL Burco Cali camels Canab collec conjugation consonant cusub declension definite article Djibouti doonaa dugsiga ending verb form English example final vowel find first focus marker following sentences furan Gaalkacyo geminate Guriga guttural consonant head noun hilib Idil iman imperative infinitive joogso kari keen keenay keénayay koob laba lesson Maanta main clause Maxamed Maxmuud miyaad negative Ninka Ninku Note noun phrase odhan plural present progressive present tense preverbal preposition reduced paradigm relative clause saddex sentences into Somali shaah Shaleyto singular Somali language sound changes stem ending verb stress-tone stress-tone pattern subject pronoun subject verbal pronoun subordinate clauses suffix tagay Translate the following verb stem ending vowel Waa yahay waan wanaagsan Warqad warran waxa Waxaan waxay word wuxuu yidhi yimi Yoonis YuusuF