Ixii wants to buy her own alto saxophone...
The Lion King
3 months ago
What better place to start than by learning what the names of those familiar Lion King characters mean? Almost all of the Disney characters have names that are simply a Swahili word. Check out the translations:
Simba means Lion
Pumbaa means Foolish One
Rafiki means Friend
Sarabi means Mirage
Shenzi means Savage
and for those of you who have seen the Lion King II:
Kovu means Scar
Zira means Hatred
Nuka means Stink
Vitani – a play on Shetani (She-demon) Vita means War.
I’ll never look at Disney the same way.
Aug 01, 06:22PM PDT | 1 comment
Ixii wants to buy her own alto saxophone...
I’m not entirely sure why I want to do this. I think a fascination with African culture and an overzealous Social Studies teacher may be to blame… Now the question is…where do I start?
Jul 29, 01:07PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Soucha studying the horizon, how to get there?
Have been reviewing the cards about once or twice a week. Its actually starting to stick! What a neat language!
Jul 07, 04:54AM PDT | 2 cheers | 2 comments
So excited I will be leaving for Kenya in just over a week. Well, I will never be fluent but I’m looking forward to picking up some phrases when I get there next week.
Jambo = hello that’s all I’ve got for now :)
Jul 06, 08:43PM PDT | 0 comments
Soucha studying the horizon, how to get there?
Completed! Found awesome website to make some flash cards from. (i did this today) www.glcom.com/hassan/lessons/useful_swahili_words.html
Will begin reviewing over the week. Have 2 more potential websites to move on to after mastering most of the cards.
Step 2 will be trying to find children’s books in Swahili or newspapers… I expect this to be a challenge but I haven’t looked yet.
May 24, 09:31PM PDT | 1 cheer | 2 comments
Soucha studying the horizon, how to get there?
Mostly we pick languages to learn randomly and this one just sounds cool! Makes sense to learn french, it’s the other international language, so I want to learn one for no particular reason. ;-)
May 15, 05:26AM PDT | 0 comments
Hujambo!
Want to visit (possibly move to) East Africa so should probably get this down! Also the official language of pan-Africanism, which I study.
Kwaherini!
Apr 15, 11:49AM PDT | 0 comments
Apr 14, 01:51PM PDT | 0 comments
i’m goin to kenya in august of 2010 and i need to not look like a dumbass american (which i am so…)
Apr 12, 08:21PM PDT | 3 cheers | 1 comment
Is there a swahili study group in maryland?
Mar 26, 12:33PM PDT | 0 comments