Kiswahili Lessons

Today I had my first Kiswahili lesson and my head is overflowing with information! I am back into school mode and need to make flash cards to keep all this straight. The good thing about Kiswahili is that it's very easy to read. There are no weird sounds and you say it just as you would read it. Sentence formulation is a little more tricky. For example, take the word to run. In Kiswahili, the word is kimbia. You build the tense and who it's about into the word. Nilikimbia means I was running. Ni refers to me. Li is past tense and kimbia is running. Ninakimbia means I am running. Nitakimbia means I was running. If you want to say "you were running" it would be ulikimbia. U refers to you, li is past tense and kimbia is running. It makes sense, but will take some quick thinking when I try to put it all together. It will be a lot of work, but I am excited to learn.