Places

A few places you might be going:

mji             town
nyumba     house (home)
hospitali    hospital
duka          shop
soko           market
mkahawa  cafe
hoteli         hotel
shule          school
kanisa        church
mskiti        mosque
mlima        mountain
ufukwe      beach

To say you are going TO a place, just add 'ni' to the end of the word.

Ninakwenda mjini
Ankwenda sokoni
Watoto wanakwenda shuleni

As usual, this changes the stress of the word, e.g.  soko   -  sokoni.

'Ni' at the end of a noun also means IN or AT a place.  But Swahili has a special construction used to talk about 'being in a place' which we don't have in English, so if you want to say "I'm at home" you wouldn't say "mimi ni nyumbani", but "nipo nyumbani".  This involves a much longer explanation, so don't worry about it yet. For now, it's enough to remember the question:

Upo wapi?    Where are you?

Nipo....          I am
mjini, dukani, sokoni, nyumbani etc.