The Kamusi Project
Looking for someone to SPEAK TO in Swahili (in person or on the telephone)
Submitted by shirlpearson@ya... on 16 September 2006 - 5:14am
Jambo!
I am learning Swahili on my own, and I have gone about as far as I can go learning the written language. What I really need is someone to speak to and to listen to, to help my own pronunciation and my comprehension.
Is there any fairly proficient Swahili speaker in Masssachusetts (west of Boston, around I-90 between I-495 and I-128) who would be willing to meet occasionally for coffee/tea and a chat - I could help with your English, and you could help with my Swahili... or we could both help each other with learning Swahili.
I have visited Tanzania once, and would dearly love to return, but I want to be able to speak to the people in their own language.
Asante sana!
Shirley
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mazungumzo
hi ,
i will be glad to communicate with you and speak with you in kiswahil although i dont live in boston but i can talk to you on the phone and help you with your swahili i come from the coastal side of kenya and i speak swahili fluently write to me at pkasaya @yahoo.com
Correspondence in Swahili
I also have been learning Kiswahili for many decades (!!) and while far from being in any way proficient either in written or spoken Swahili I would love the opportunity to correspond with people who have a similar interest in the language. My ultimate ambition is to pay one last visit to East Africa -- preferably in a group -- where we could enjoy meeting people and hearing folksongs and learning more of the language. One "last" visit? Preferably ten!
OK! Here goes! I'm going to try and write in Swahili:
Ningependa sana kurudi Africa ya Mashariki mpaka Unguja na Kenya na Tanzania. Zamani -- 1971 + 1972 -- nilikuwa mwalimu wa Kiingereza katika Kenya na mwaka wa 1996 pamoja na mume wa dada yangu tulikwenda kutembea tembea Unguja. Tulisikia musici ya Taarab. Mzuri sana. Tamu. Sasa nataka kurudi tena lakini singependa kwenda peke yangu tu. Nakaa hapa Ireland.
Mnaweza kuandika (kuandikia???) mimi kwa haronrasheed@hotmail.com
[Corrections of my Swahili will be very welcome]
hamjambo
hey i would love to visit you and talk to you but sorry cause i dont live where you live i live in Machanicsburg, PA, but if you want to chat you can responde back and may be i would give you my E-mail and by the way i speak kiswahili , amharic, english,oromic, somali, and a little bit of espanol may be i can teach all of the langauge that i know hope you responde back.
it's your kenyan GIRL
hujambo
Mpenzi mkuu wa lugha ya Swahili.
Je, waweza kunipigia nikiwa nchini Kenya nikupe mafunzo(I me can you call me in Kenya i offer you some Swahili teachings)