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I just started Colloquial Swahili and it's great!Lessons are bunch of dialogs in different situations.For example this is the first lesson:
Nick Braun, a German consultant working for the Tanzania–
Zambia railway company TAZARA and Kathy Houston, an
American overseas student, are both based in the Tanzanian city of
Dar es Salaam. The two visitors have decided to take a short break
from work and study to go to Zanzibar Island, fifty miles from the
coast of Dar es Salaam. After arriving by ferry, they are now
approaching the harbour Customs Office
KATHY: Hodi!
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Karibu!
KATHY: (After entering the office) Asante. Habari yako
bwana?
CO: Nzuri. Karibuni.
KATHY AND NICK: Asante.
CO: Hamjambo?
KATHY AND NICK: Hatujambo.
NICK: Na wewe, hujambo bwana?
CO: Mimi sijambo. Habari zenu?
KATHY AND NICK: Nzuri.
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KATHY: May we enter?
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Welcome! Come in!
KATHY: (After entering the office) Thanks. How are
things with you, sir?
CO: Fine. Welcome.
KATHY AND NICK: Thanks.
CO: How are you both?
KATHY AND NICK: We are well.
NICK: And how about you sir?
CO: I am well. How are things with you?
NICK AND KATHY: Good.
So basically you listen the audio and follow the dialogs in the book.
Then after the dialog you have vocabulary section with all the words that were used, some useful expressions, a little grammar and couple of exercises.
It's pretty fun, you should try it!
I'm also using Pimsleur, where you only listen to audio without books, it's little boring but it's not bad.