Kiswahili

Hamjambo!

About a week has passed since we started learning Swahili(Kiswahili) in the class. My teacher is from Tanzania. She is a well-trained and good teacher. In the first lesson, she said to us, "You have to learn Kiswahili before you leave for Tanzania, otherwise you cannot live there!"

We started learning how to greet each other in Kiswahili. Greeting is very very important in the conversation in Tanzania. It is said that people spend some time to greet each other and the greeting is the key to be on good terms with Tanzanian people. We learned several expressions to ask how they are, however the answer must be always " Good!" or "Very good!"

Our training is very intensive, so that now we can already say "I must do・・・・”　or "I must not do ・・・・” I must study Kiswahili every day now.

We have about 65 days training, which is mainly language training.

I hope I will be albe to manage to speak Swahili after this intensive training.

Kuwa heri (Good by)

* the photo above・・・ the English -Swahili dictionary and the Swahili-English dictionary, which my teacher borrowed me.