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Tanya - I got as far as guessing it was an African language. Probably from something I heard in a movie--or I think in an introduction to a man at a lecture in some university. I think I'll pay special attention to any foreign speech I hear in the New York area, which is not difficult. On my suburban street, neighbors speak Armenian, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and who knows what else. I'm a native Spanish speaker and would love to be able to communicate in Portuguese which is actually so different in sound from Spanish, the whole positioning of the mouth and lips totally different. Maybe I'll give it a try one of these Fridays! By the way, I didn't hear/feel the "clicks" in the phrase you read.

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That's right! There are no clicks in Swahili, it's an exception to other Bantu languages in that sense. Yes Portuguese is much harder for Spanish speakers to understand than vice versa from what I know, at least in oral speech.

oh, and I wasn't reading :) I was just saying stuff. not that it matters :):) i just feel that i learn a lot more when i speak from memory rather than from a piece of paper.

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Feb 17Liked by Tanya Mozias

Hi there! I’m so sorry you’ve been sick. Why can’t you learn Rusyn? I did agree with the other comment her that it’s either a indigenous language, or a tribal African language like Zulu or something.

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Rusyn is too close to Russian and I already understand like 80% percent of it without learning anything, so I'm finding it really hard to get my brain into a foreign language mode and learn the remaining 20% :)

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What an amazing idea ti make a fool of ourselves speaking our target languages. You've inspired me to do the same but I'll probably keep it for myself 😅

The language to me sounded like it could be an Indigenous language the only ones I'm familiar with are in Canada. I guess I was kind of close as swahilli is Indigenous to Africa.

The closest I've got to learning an agglutinative language is Icelandic but it's only kind of one. And it has cases which isn't fun.

Hope things go well with Swahilli! 😊

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Yay! I'm glad I've inspired you :)

Cases are brutal.

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