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- "Wakulima waholanzi wachache"
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I feel the same way about "Knabino" from esperanto and "schildpadden" from dutch xD
Schildpadden is just a nice word, though I rarely use it. You really have to learn that if you want to learn Dutch?
Eh, in the duolingo course animals is one of the first few courses they teach. I don't know, I guess it's not suuuuper important I know what a turtle is in dutch, but I feel like animals are easy enough :)
Yes, though still a very simple sentence. In many cases you find a lot more prefixes and suffixes to words. It can be a real puzzle to locate the core words. That makes it a nice language to learn.
To say "The dutch farmers are few" is a full statement (independent clause) whereas "Few Dutch farmers" are a group, and that group is the subject of the sentence (though it's an incomplete sentence.) That's english grammar though...
Should Waholanzi/Wakenya etc always be capitalized or no? It's lower case here "waholanzi"
The adj for counting are mostly at the end of the sentence, if you hear someone speaking swahili you can get it.... For example you order some drinks at the restaurant... Maji moja Na cocacola mbili
Here is a typical example of an african who can not pronounce certain consonants. A 'l' ... turns into a 'r' holanzi becomes horanzi ... even the 'h' is a problem here .... it almost becomes 'faranzi' in stead of holanzi. Many people of bantu origin have this problem.
Again the problem with pronunciation.... 'holanzi' becomes 'faranzi'.... in the audio...
that's just how Tanzanians speak. What he says comes out as 'Wahoranzi', he is not saying 'faranzi'
It seems the "L" and "R" sounds are interchangeable which makes it very confusing for me.
it's a bit of a Tanzanian accent 'quirk', as a rule Swahili is completely phonetic
