You must sacrifice your productivity especially at a time where there seems not be enough time to do things. Promoting spoken Swahili seems to have been working well (the media has been doing it). Then a few dedicate individuals can work on the written one to keep it going. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, William Muriithi < william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > >>> Of late we've ranted about being forced to use Google in Swahili. > >>> But > >>> it's good to realize that Swa is so recognized that it's on > >>> Wikipedia as > >>> well! > >>> http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges > >>> I prefer to read the article in English though considering the > >>> amount of > >>> time in my hands... > >>> --
This unfortunately very true. I find that I can read far faster in English than in Swahili. This make it very hard to be loyal to it when you are in a rush. Unfortunately, as we use it infrequently, we rust further which just keep reinforcing the original problem. I kind of now understand how languages goes belly up.
I used to be a wikipedia editor sometime back and I did not know how bad my swahili was until I tried to write a swahili version of an article I had authored in English. It was barely Swahili and I just had to trash it as it was embarrassing. Kind of felt sad about myself after that for a moment.
William
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