Dabbling in Swahili 3: implosive consonants

One of the things I love about Swahili, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese is the way native speakers pronounce the b, d, and g. They breathe in instead of out. More importantly, what are techniques I use to learn to pronounce sounds that aren't in my native English?

This video is unedited. Please excuse my stupid mistakes. For example, French and Portuguese have nasal vowels--I didn't mean to say native consonants. Also, Dar-es-Salaam obviously didn't come from French--more likely Arabic.

[hectorquinones]

Thanks for this video.

I was just going starting the Swahili course in Duolingo and it doesn't really mention anything about the implosive consonants. I only found out about those when I went into the Swahili IPA Help Wikipedia page.

[AceBuck]

This is actually fascinating. I'm still so infamilar with the phonetics world of language learning. Implosive consonants, how fantastic!

[arek]

Great video! Wish I got to learn Swahili but i have too many languages to learn already 😭

[cufflink]

Your implosives sound great. BUT where did you hear that Indonesian contains implosives? I've never heard that in my life. The Wikipedia articles on Indonesian and Malay do not contain the word "implosive." Furthermore, the Wiki article on implosive consonants does not mention Indonesian as a language that contains them. What's the source of your information?

[wesleyamorimaraujo]

I see that you've been learning KiSwahili for at least one year so far, tell, how is it going? Are you able to have a real conversation? What did you think about the learning journay? Is it an easy language to learn?