Ninapenda kusoma historia ya nchi yangu.

Ninapenda is made up of:
• ni- – the 1st person singular subject marker (“I”)
• -na- – the present tense/progressive marker (“am …ing” or “usually …”)
• penda – the verb root meaning like or love

Swahili verbs require a tense/aspect marker between the subject and the root.
• -na- shows present/progressive/habitual action.
• Without it, penda on its own would be an imperative (“like/love!”).
• Colloquially you might hear Napenda, but the standard form is Ninapenda (ni+na+penda).
• Nipenda would mix markers incorrectly (ni+penda with no tense).

Kusoma is the infinitive form (“to read”) and also works as a gerund (“reading”). In Swahili:
• All infinitives use the prefix ku- + verb root.
• So soma (root for “read”) → kusoma (“to read” / “reading”).

Swahili has no articles like “a” or “the.” Nouns stand alone, and context or possessives show definiteness.
• historia can mean “history,” “a history,” or “the history” depending on context.

ya is the genitive (possessive) connector for noun class 9/10.
• historia and nchi are treated as class 9 (no prefix), so they take ya to link to modifiers or possessors.
• Class 1/2 (people) uses wa, class 7/8 uses cha, and so on.

In Swahili, possessive pronouns follow the noun and agree with its class.
• Pattern: noun + connector + possessive pronoun.
• nchi (class 9) + ya + yangu (my for class 9/10) → nchi yangu (“my country”).

You can say:
• Je, unapenda kusoma historia ya nchi yako?
• or simply Unapenda kusoma historia ya nchi yako? (using intonation to indicate a question)

Place sana right after penda:
Ninapenda sana kusoma historia ya nchi yangu.
This adds “very much” or “really” to your liking.