“I have no idea what this means, but isn’t my pronunciation fabulous?”
Anyone who’s learned a foreign language knows that there are phases you go through. There’s that “I only know one verb in the past…
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On returning, or, “What does your language sound like?”
I had a conversation in Sierra Leone with someone who speaks an enviable number of languages. I grew up in West Virginia, where it’s…
Read MoreAnybody know where I can get some more of this?
Someone just shared with me this link “Ururabo,” an old Kinyarwanda song, by a band known as Rossisendi & His Group. The link has…
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I can’t believe it hasn’t occurred to me to do this sooner. Like every place in which English is not the mother language, the…
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I am too infrequently nursing a little burn I got hopping off a moto last week–it was my own fault, lacking as I do…
Read MoreMaybe Kinyarwanda is actually the universal language
I was sitting in the bus station in Butare and four Asian men walked in. A tall guy in an Indian-style tunic went to…
Read MoreThat is, literally, not what I meant
I was having a meal with a Rwandan friend earlier today, and in the process learned that “Dufugurua” means both “We am eating a…
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