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[BlackVelvet]

I heard a woman older than me by ten years or more read af Somaali. Listening to the struggle was

I think I used to be like that back in the day until I started forcing myself to read what some of you write in af Somaali. Marka aad iyo aad ayaad ugu mahadsantihiin, qoraalka af Somaaliga aad igu qasabteen in aan aqriyo. Hadda sac sac camal af Somaaliga ma u aqriyi (that might not be a word but Rome and buildings... )

[Keyblade]

I shudder to think what your Somali was like before

[FarhanYare]

am not gonna lie i struggled with reading anything written with somali, but now the struggle part is with the actual writting in somali.

[Advo]

I was in a room full of pple and someone randomly asked me to come read a somali article, I read it fast without a pause.

Everyone was looking at me like:

My only problem is my vocab sucks but asides from that, somalinet over the years

[BlackVelvet]

When writing I do it in af ad adeeg nowadays, and now when I speak I've started to sound like that too. Vocab is the one that shames, that and not knowing any mah mah apart from nin is faanshey, people start thinking there's something wrong with you if you are always talking about is nuugid.

I shudder to think what your Somali was like before

Better than a Nigerian's

[Keyblade]

[Vivacious]

Sometimes I wonder what my Somali would have been like, had I not been taught by my mum at home every day after school.

[BlackVelvet]

Mr.Furo

Hoo kan aqri : http://vocaroo.com/


Sagaal nin oo walaalo ah sideenaa
Siddeed isku bah tahay sidiinaa
Ninkuna bah gaar yahay sidaydaa
Siddeeduna ninkii siri sidiina
Ninkuna sirtii garan sidaydaa
Haddaynu isa siri siddeenaba
Mayska kala tagnaa sideedaba

[Keyblade]

Pretty sure I already did that

[AgentOfChaos]

Hadda sac sac camal af Somaaliga ma u aqriyi

You nailed it.

[Lamagoodle]

Jasmine, I noticed one thing; somali parents in Anglo saxon countries tend to think that the English language is superior to the somali. They will encourage their kids to speak English. They themselves frequently use English words even when speaking with people back home in Africa.

In Northern Europe- mainly the Nordic countries- the school curricula contains classes in somali language.

Just an observation.

[Keyblade]

Hadda sac sac camal af Somaaliga ma u aqriyi

You nailed it.

[Lamagoodle]

BTW, check these links

[BlackVelvet]

LamaG thanks for the links, this is pretty useful.

Hadda sac sac camal af Somaaliga ma u aqriyi

You nailed it.

Don't hate if you don't know what sac sac is sac sac yahoo

[BlackVelvet]

And Keyblade, Sunday afternoon perhaps you don't have your Somali friends around you today