[kelly]

Just had to share this with ma peeps here in mashada. How well do y'all know your national language???


Subject: Learn Swahili Please


Utandawazi na soko huria na kukomaa kwa ukiritimba, kumesababisha
teknologia kuenea kwa urahisi. Haiyumkiniki,kuimarika na kuboreka kwa
miundo mbinu ya mawasiliano pamoja na washika-dau katika sekta hiyo ndio
matokeo halisi ya njia mbadala na anuwai katika mawasiliano.


Mathalani, katika ulimwengu huu pepe siyo lazima uwe na Nukunishi ili
kupeleka ujumbe wa maandishi, unachohitaji ni kuwa tu na Tarakilishi,
ambayo imeungwa kwenye mdahalishi na unachotakiwa kufanya nikuingia kwenye
Tovuti husika, na kutuma barua pepe.


UTANDAWAZI - Globalisation
Miundo-Mbinu - Infrastructure
Washika-Dau -Stakeholders
Ukiritimba - Monopoly
Kujipa Ukiritimba - Monopolize
Mbadala - Alternative
Ulimwengu pepe - Electronic world
Nukunishi - Fax Machine
Nukushi - Fax
Tarakilishi - Computer
Mdahalishi - Internet
Tovuti - Website
Barua Pepe - Electronic-Mail (email)
Mtandao - Network

Ati what Language did you say this was????!!!

and you thought you knew the language, hehehe!!!

Have a nice weekend!!!!!

[sparks]

Ai, kama ni hivyo...kiswahili ki***uwze...why did they have to make it that hard for. Si they just iba some words from engo...as they've done like a million times before...like the globolization thing...globolaizesheni...what?

CAN'T WE ALL JUST.....GET ALONG http://us.f214.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Sho...ame=****it.gif

[msemakweli]

Lazima Kiswahili kitukuzwe....i like to think that my Swahili's up to scratch...amakweli umeniwahi ;-) lakini aibu sio mbaya sana..knew some on the list but mislabeled others...now have to update haraka sana and incorporate new vocabulary..Thanx!! :)

Upende,Usipende,I will call it as i see it!!

[Jnzn]

And I thot I am a pro in swahili..
Enyewe KISWAHILI KITUKUZWE... or is it KITUKUKE

[jomo]

what nonsence swahili is a slave language brought by slave traders and is mostly arabic than african.
most oof the words are from persian and urdu and nothing is african.
did u know that zanzibar is persian.
zanzi means negro
and was used in many poems to talk of the backwardness of zanzibari's
Eg
the world is more confused than the hair of a zanzibari.

internet :interneti
land :tiri
money :mbesha
president :muthamaki

[Zimma Man]

Wrong wrong Wrong!
Swahili is an African language with arabic influences. The grammer and structure of Swahili is African while only about 25% of the vocabulary is of arabic origin. Ati most of the words are from Persian and Urdu? Taja 10 swahili words of Persian and Urdu origin. Note that Urdu is also an arabic hybrid so choose urdu words with no arabic root. The fact is that Swahili is the National Language of Kenya and is the most spoken African language in East, Central and Southern Africa. It is the only language in Kenya that has both an oral and written pre-colonial history. That may be a hard pill to swallow for some.

[Msoto]

yes but the language has been transformed it is no longer the same....just as latin yielded to Italian so must some kiswahili words yield to sheng...

Sheng should become the national language...(with some modifications....)

[Gaidi Sugu]

Kwani na wewe jomo?!! eishhh! Ati swa is a slave language? So what does that make the english that youre writing in? Is it any better? If anything we should all stop this english nanzenz and promote the use of swa. English ndio lugha ya slavery/colonization/racism...almost all manner of evil brought upon black people in this world.

[tusker kubwa]

Gaidi wacha Un'gombe mbwa wewe, ***uza English & then, Fisi Mla watu.

[Ruth Njoroge]

Yes swahili is the National language and it is better to make sure tha every Kenyans understand it.It is also good to learn English coz it is world language.Most of people hve difficultness
when speaking it especially when communicating with a person who don't understand Swahili.I always see many people here in US with difficultiness ofcommunicating with these wajinga wazungu.
NAPENDA SWAHILI HATA KAMA SIIJUUSANA LAKINII CAN READ IT.