Learning New Things

So I've experienced a little bit of Complete Swahili, and I've learnt a couple of things, I know, surprising right?

For example, everyone assumes that Jambo is the proper way to say hello in Swahili, but most people there just accept that from tourists and reply the same politely. But its regularly Mambo, or Vipi. These are used for people of similar status or close aquaintances.

Another casual greeting is Hujambo which means how are you, its simple and many people use it.

I've also learnt about the prober names for a woman, they are either Bwana, Bibi, or Mama. Bwana and Bibi are both followed by the woman's name. But, Bibi is then shortened to Bi. Mama is usually followed by the name of her eldest or last child.

Swahili is weird.

Mary.x

Complete Swahili

Well everyone, I tried Byki and it turns out computer courses just aren't for me. There are many reasons for this, 1. I can't bring my mom's laptop to school 2. I need something small and portable 3. it's so much easier to read from a book than to work off of a screen.

I recently just got a book ordered in from McNally Robinson called Complete Swahili, and I'm a lot better at working with books. This book has different sections according to different parts of the language, so I've decided that with every chapter I finish (where each chapter is based on a different part of the language such as greetings, basic conversation, etc.) I'll post a video of what i've learned, like a little performance of the language and pronunciation.

I'll update again soon, and I hope I'll have learned more by then!

Mary.x