Kiswahili ni lugha nzuri

Learning Swahili is not easy. Attending a course four hours per day and learning about fifty new words each time is even more difficult. Honestly, our minds are about to explode! We spend our free time reciting words like poems: tembea - to walk, tembelea - to visit, tegemea - to depend, tengeneza - to construct, tangaza - to announce...

But the language is also funny and offers insights into the culture. When we learned about kitchen stuff and cooking, for example, our teacher Loyce told us how young people tell that they got married.
The man says: "Nimepata jiko", meaning "I got a kitchen", and
the woman says: "Nimepata nyumba", meaning "I got a house". Sounds familiar, right?

So when the people ask us, which they always do, if we find Swahili to be a good language, what can we say but yes: "Kiswahili ni lugha nzuri".