Comments on: Culture Guide: How to learn Swahili

By: salama

salama — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:14:09 +0000

Naweza pata rafiki apa?

By: rob

rob — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Hmmm dowry price? Such a difference in cultures. Awesome and hilarious.

By: grandma mack

grandma mack — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:45:45 +0000

Jess, Such a neat video clip and description of learning something so different. you are writing so well! I am in Mich. with Sherri while Jay and Loran are in Wash. D.C. for a fun trip. sherri sends her greeting s to. You are in our prayers. Love, grandma mack

By: shelli

shelli — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:26:07 +0000

I know what you mean about needing to see a word written down! When my friends Cyrus and Susan Gikori lived in Indy for a year they would often greet me at their home with a friendly “Karibu” (welcome/come in). For the longest time (about the whole year) every time they said that I had a picture of a caribou in my head. I knew what they were saying was some form of welcome and it wasn’t English but I still couldn’t help picturing a big hairy reindeer each and every time. Gave me a good chuckle in my head.

By: Aaron Elliott

Aaron Elliott — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:38:07 +0000

Way to go Jessica!!

Baraka!

Aaron

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:43:55 +0000

Thanks for modeling a go-for-it attitude to learn your host country’s language when it would be so much easier (and less embarrassing!) to stick with English. I appreciate the challenge, as I come into contact with Latino people here, to make an attempt to converse in my very elementary Spanish! And Happy Birthday!!!