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Swahili
English
Gikuyu
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From Kenya

Living in Other, Kenya

Native Swahili tutor for beginners, and intermediate students. Give me a shot! Hujambo! I’m Mapati, your friendly native Swahili tutor. Swahili isn’t just my language—it’s my culture and my passion, and I love helping learners like you build real confidence in speaking it. I have 2 years of experience as a swahili tutor, and I specialize in helping beginners and intermediate learners build confidence and speak naturally. My lessons are more than just vocabulary and grammar; I blend language, culture, and real-life experiences so that learning Swahili becomes both practical and deeply personal. I enjoy sharing stories, traditions, and everyday expressions to make your learning journey meaningful and memorable. As someone who is also learning Zulu, I truly understand the challenges, joys, and sometimes even frustrations that come with starting a new language from scratch. That personal experience shapes everything I do in the classroom, and it helps me support you every step of the way. Karibu—let’s discover Swahili together!
My teaching material
  • PDF file
  • Text Documents
  • Presentation slides/PPT
  • Audio files
  • Image files
  • Video files
  • Flashcards
  • Articles and news
  • Quizzes
  • Test templates and examples
  • Homework Assignments
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Trial Lesson
0 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Swahili For Beginners (Basic greetings)
A1
Conversation
98 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
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Verbs, tenses and adverbs made easy for beginners!
A1
Language Essentials
3 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Explore Swahili Through Literature: Stories, Poetry & Culture
B1-B2
Language Essentials
0 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Swahili music vocabulary
A1-B1
Conversation
0 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Informal Swahili. The kind you’ll hear in everyday conversations, streets, and social media, not in formal classrooms
A2
Conversation
22 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Traveling(This lesson introduces essential Swahili vocabulary and phrases used when traveling)
A1
Conversation
3 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Methali na Misemo ya kiwahili (Proverbs and Sayings in Swahili)
B1-C1
Conversation
0 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
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Student Plamen Draganov
Plamen Draganov
15 Swahili lessons
Amazing lesson with Mapati. We learned how to describe a picture and this helped me a lot to practice making my own sentences. She gently correct my mistakes and encouraged me all of the time.
Student Gary Holland
Gary Holland
39 Swahili lessons
Great lesson with Mapati! We continued learning about family and relationships. Mapati told me a bit more about different culture in Kenya and about an interesting book that she is reading. Mapati did a great job of explaining how the new vocabulary fits into sentences!
Student Plamen Draganov
Plamen Draganov
15 Swahili lessons
Great lesson with Mapati. Firstly, she reviewed my homework and corrected some of my mistakes then we proceeded with learning how to use relative pronouns like who, which, whom in Swahili. We also learned how to use them with the Ki-Vi and M-Wa noun classes. Mapati did a great job explaining the grammar to me in an easy to understand way.
Student Gary Holland
Gary Holland
39 Swahili lessons
Great lesson with Mapati! We continued talking about family and relationships. Mapati also asked me to translate several sentences from English. Mapati did a great job of explaining the new vocabulary words and reminding me of the words that we learned but I didn't remember!
Student Plamen Draganov
Plamen Draganov
15 Swahili lessons
I had another nice lesson with Mapati. We learned how to change the verb in order to say that we performed the action to someone else. Mapati explained the grammar clearly and helped me to understand it.
Student Gary Holland
Gary Holland
39 Swahili lessons
Great lesson with Mapati! We continued learning about "family". We also made different sentences describing family relationships. Mapati did a great job of helping me correct the sentences!