Title: Only for those who already know some Swahili
Product review: If you already know basic Swahili, this product might help you expand your vocabulary. Otherwise I would not recommend buying this four CD set even though the price is low. Three of the CDs offer only seemingly random and disorganized words and 1 CD offers similarly disorganized short phrases. (To illustrate how randomly chosen they are, I'll just give you the first 4 so-called expressions: "My pleasure," It's over," "Why not?" and "It's about time.") A first time visitor needs the basics - greetings, numbers, polite phrases - and this product doesn't offer those necessities, at least in any way that's easily accessible. Words and phrases are spoken in English and then repeated once in Swahili; later on the same CD Swahili comes first and the English second, but the words are not in the same order. The whole thing's a mishmash.
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