This book, Beginning English for
Somali Speakers, was written for the benefit of Somali
speakers who are learning English. The first half of each chapter is
written in English, and the second half presents the same material in
the Somali language. Chapter 1 contains a brief introduction, Chapter
2 explains the pronunciation of the English consonants and vowels,
and Chapters 3 to 11 explain various aspects of basic English grammar.
The final chapter contains an
English-Somali and Somali-English
Vocabulary of around 600 commonly used English words.
Another English-Somali and Somali-English Vocabulary can be found
at mnic.net/~cdn.
A book containing more detailed explanations of English grammar can be found here.
The contents of this site can be seen at a glance from the Table of Contents, which contains links to
all of the material covered. Anyone who would like to download the
material in order to use it more conveniently is welcome to do so. Simply
save this file: somali.exe (100Kb). This
is a self-expanding file. Once you have saved the file, if you then
double-click on it, and click on "Start" and "OK", somali.exe
will expand into 14 files which can be read on your browser,
one file for each chapter of the book. You will then have the
whole book on your computer, and can use it in electronic form
or print it out, as you wish. In order for the links to work
correctly, all of the files should be kept in a single directory.
This book has been put on the Internet in order to be used freely,
and distributed as widely as possible. Webmasters are welcome to
mirror it on other sites. However, use of the material for
commercial purposes is not permitted, and no changes to the content
may be made without the express permission of the author. Questions,
comments or corrections may be sent to stirling@dbis.ns.ca.
