Thursday, March 24, 2011

Word.


During my study abroad in Uganda and Rwanda i picked up alot of new words in Kinyarwanda, Acholi, Luganda & even some french words! Unfortunately i have forgotten most of them, so i decided to make a list of the ones i do remember so that i never forget them:
WARNING : my spelling is very very off.

Kinyarwanda:
-muraho (hello)
-muracoze (thank you)
-tuzongera (bye)
-avoka (avocado)
-kugura (buy)
-amazi (water)
-amakuru? (how are you?)
-nimeza (i am well)

Luganda:
-banange (OMG!/ thats crazy)

Acholi:
-kuce (peace)

French:
jeswe segus (i am happy)
fegme la pomp (close the pump)
ovgeeg la pomp (open the pump)
tabl (table)
fromage (cheese)

and then of course there is one word i will probably never forget: Mzungu (white person).
Almost everywhere i went many people would point at me and yell  "mzungu, mzungu!"

Thats all i remember for now, i will add to this list whenever another word comes to me!

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