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Review: Pretty effective, and the readings and chapter structure are pretty good for about third-level study. The Swahili glosses are often nonsensical, but the glossary in the back defines all the words in English, so you aren't reliant on them. The glossary is not a good language resource and will not replace a dictionary.Masomo ya Kisasa does not line up precisely with any elementary-level study I know of, so students' vocabularies are almost certain not to match up reliably with the 'undefined' words in the texts, but it's workable so long as they're at the right level. The length of the readings is highly variable, but they're all real published things, rather than the tripe generally written for language-learning texts.Note that the Arabic orthography option is not touched upon.
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