Sisi Tulisoma Kiswahili Leo. (Today we studied Swahili)

We are in the midst of our Swahili lessons. It is actually a very simple language to learn. Joel is satisfied having learned the sentence "Mimi nitakunwya Kilimanjero" which means I am going to drink a beer, and is literally one letter away from saying I am going to shit a beer "mimi nitakunya Kilimanjero" .. we have quickly learned to be very careful in what we say.
Anyways, me being the language nerd am excited to learn more in next few days.  He also likes the word Kechapu (Ketchup) and the phrase "WataKula" (not watercooler as you may have guessed, but it actually "They are going to eat"... it is just fun to say).
For those other language nerds reading this blog, here is a run down on Kiswahili.  It has verbs, but no cojugations (SOO unlike French and Spanish, and Enligsh). If you speak in the present you ad the prefix "na" to the verb, (no matter 1st person, second, 3rd, pluaral etc.), "li" for past tense, and the prefix "ta" for future tense. For examples,

Nikula - Am eating
Likula - ate
Takula - will eat

 Kiswahili is a very phonetic language. It is spelled exactly how it sounds. They also have a lot less words than other languages, so words they have borrowed, they just add an 'i' at the end to make it their own. For example
chipsi = chips
benki = bank
tiketi = ticket
rocketi = rocket
husbandi = husband.. and so on. It's not rocket science (rocketi scienci) .. ok that was an exaggeration.

Well, that is all for now.
Mimi Nitaandika Kesho (I will write again tomorrow)