I had my first Kiswahili test yesterday; unexpectedly I don’t think I failed. The Kiswahili words stick to my head like glue and stay there, which is very rare in my case, I studied Spanish for 4 years and French for 2 and cant say a word in any of the languages. Yesterday I even understood when one of the women in the kitchen told another woman in Kiswahili that it was time to take out the fruit for our snack time, but I probably only understood that because the subject concerned food. I can now count in Kiswahili too which helps when I want to bargain about prices in the markets, the vendors at Toy market and the Masai Market are less likely to try and trick you if you speak their language (and they stop insulting you in Kiswahili as fast as they realize that you might understand).
But what will happen with this knowledge after my year in Kenya, will I ever benefit from it? Could I continue learning it in Sweden or should I just drop it? It doesn’t really matter because it is a very fun language to learn and classes with Lazarus are the best so for now I’m just going to have fun learning something new.
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