I am a car
Last week I said to our teacher Mama Anti (in Swahili): «We didn´t wake up this morning». On Wednesday I told her that “I was a car”. So yes, learning a language is fun!
It’s really good to have a teacher. She corrects us and stops/prevents us from telling people you meet strange things. I guess taxi-drivers in the town would have had a good laugh if I replied “I am a car” whenever they ask us if we need a car… well, and if I’d start my conversation telling them that I didn’t wake up this morning, there might be rumors in the town about this strange European guy.
Swahili might not be the easiest language to learn. The grammar is not so complicated but it’s a bit tricky and challenging to learn. There are nine classes with nouns (each class having singular and plural), and each class having their own near- and far- demonstratives (so it’s not only “this & these, that & those”, but there are new “this & these, that & those” for each of the nine classes. And of course they add the prefixes to the verbs so that verbs also reflect the class of the nouns… and then you also have to add the tense to the verb and at the end the result is a word that looks really different for the initial one.
So after 20 hours with Swahili lessons (2 hours x twice a week) we dear to say that Swahili is quite challenging and not so simple…
But at least I know now that I´m not a car!!!
Its quite funny to learn swahili. We have had 20 lessons so far.
Jurgita practise how to tell people what the time is.
