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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