Does anyone want to get together for conversation? I’m learning Swahili, and am a skilled native speaker of English.

Is there a native Swahili speaker who could correct this for me? Thanks! Kuna manyama wengi aina tofauti wa Afrika wanaweza kufa wote. Mnyama mmoja ni twiga ya Rothschild.Marafiki wa wazizi wangu wanasaidia wao. Walifanya kimbilio kwa wao. Walileta twiga mahali pa kimbilio. Ni muhimu sana kwa kujenga kimbilio mjini kwa sababu watoto wanaishi mjini hawaonani manyama wa Afrika, hivi hawajui kwa nini ni muhimu ili kuiokoa. Katika kimbilio, anaweza kutembea kijia cha juu na anaonana twiga uso kwa uso.

In Swahili, what’s the difference between the verb suffix ‘-sha” and “-shwa “? Thank you.

SWAHILI I’m looking for a FREE LANGUAGE EXCHANGE PARTNER (I speak English; you speak Swahili) or someone who will correspond with me in Swahili. I’d prefer conversation, but I am a real beginner so I speak very, very slowly, and I can only use italki, FaceTime, or zoom, or we can write. I can help you with vocabulary, grammar, writing style and punctuation, and accent. I have a graduate degree and have written and lectured professionally. Plus, I’m nice. I like to talk about food, movies and tv, animals, family, and culture, but I’ll talk about your interests, too. I want to be able to help people from Africa with their communication needs when they come to the US.

Mwanangu alinipea kitu kunoa visu. Si rahisi kufungua zawadi kwa sababu visu changu si Makali!

What is the word for "sailboat" in Swahili? (I'll bet it's of Arabic origin.)

Help! I can't find a previous post and I want to correct my comment! It was about saying, "My grandparents have been vaccinated" or "My grandparents were vaccinated." I realized of course that one is not wrong or right, but that they are saying different things. "My grandparents were vaccinated" would mean, my grandparents went and had the physical vaccine one time. "My grandparents have been vaccinated" would be, as the other person said, an ongoing situation, as in "My grandparents have been vaccinated so they feel safer now." I still think I'd say or commonly hear "were" for either situation, although it's not perfectly correct. I'm sorry for the confusion, but then language *is* confusing.