http://www.google.co.ke/preferences?hl=sw Change lugha ya Uonyesho to from Kiswahili to KIINGEREZA (or whatever language you prefer. There is Luo and it works pretty well, thanx to Uganda.) Lugha ya Uonyesho -> Onyesha vidokezo na ujumbe kutoka Google kwa: KIINGEREZA Save: Press HIFADHI MAPENDELEO On 8/25/11, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> wrote:
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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