Useful websites for self-study of foreign languages, online dictionaries and country-specific information sources
Advanced foreign language self-study site: Swahili language self-study site
You can learn Swahili characters and pronunciations as well as basic grammar by watching video clips of conversations.
Swahili language dictionary
Dictionary developed by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies under the Global COE Program “Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education (CbLLE).” The dictionary contains a total of 8,000 Swahili words, including those in Suwahili-Go Joyo 6,000 Go (Commonly-Used 6,000 Swahili Words), authored and edited by Tsuneo Morino and Hisashi Nakajima, 1992 (Daigaku Syorin).
English-Swahili Dictionary
Online version of the English-Swahili dictionary published by the Institute of Kiswahili Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam
Swahili-English Dictionary
Online version of the Swahili-English dictionary published by the Institute of Kiswahili Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam
NHK World-Japan: News in Swahili
NHK World-Japan: News in Swahili and Jifunze Kijapani, a site for self-studying the Japanese language in Swahili
NHK Radio Japan site in Swahili
Radio programs in Swahili
BBC Swahili News
BBC news in Swahili. Videos are also available.
VOA Swahili
Voice of America programs in Swahili. Radio programs and videos are also available.
IPP media
Official website of IPP Media, a media conglomerate in Tanzania that publishes Swahili- and English-language newspapers and owns TV and radio stations. An English site is also available. There is also detailed information about the domestic situation in Tanzania.
The Standard
Official website of The Standard, a newspaper published in Kenya, which offers news topics, mainly about the domestic affairs of Kenya, in English.