I am working on it. It was smooth in the mirror. In real time I was a little too self conscious and did not want to mess up. Next time I will be better, promise
Born in Mexico her Swahili is impeccable. I am quite impressed by her Swahili accent typical of a Kenya millennium comportment , and being polite to the challenge,kudos!
If we as black Americans could speak Swahili 2,things would happen simultaneously 1 it would put us closer to the Continent of Africa 2 and make the bond of our own people that much more stronger!!! AND BLACK PEOPLE is would piss off all bigoted people in America which would be one hell of a bonus of bonuses ya dig 🔥✊🏿🔥🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿🔥🔥
Only one sentence that's it. I don't think she knows more than that. Sio wakenya wote wanaifahamu hii lugha ya kiswahili, haswa wale wenzetu wanaojiona wasomi wakiamka kiingereza, wakilala kiingereza.
The West, including Blacks, don't get African Languages and names which pretty straightforward more than 95% of the time 🙄. If it's European, then they'll get it...
@stephenmadindou7742 I had a great Professor, Dr Lenora Anyango. I can speak more than two sentences but reading and writing and being conversational is two different things. When you have to interpret and respond it is a bit more difficult. Add to that you are speaking to a gorgeous and intelligent Oscar Award winning actress, I was not trying to do too much within my four minute interview especially since her costar was also in the interview and wouldn’t understand it. So my tuition was well spent thank you 😂
@@TheHollywoodPostjust take the feedback fam!!! Expand your vocabulary and work on the accent. Nobody hating apart from the insecurities you feel when it’s being pointed out.
Seems you are the one insecure. I handle criticism just fine. If you want to insult my efforts that is a different story. Like why are you over here responding to the way I respectfully responded to someone else. You need a friend or something?
@@TheHollywoodPost actually most of the people on the comments are pleased with your swahili but more disappointed with Lupita. They were expecting her to talk more in swahili since you did a whole sentence. You did great. Hongera.
Em acha upuuz kiswahili hakina cha tanzania kenya uganda burundi wala congo kiswahili nicha wote twaongeo Kiswahili em elimika kidogo haya nikikuuliza tanzania kiswahili kimeanza lin hautonijibu.....
@@TheHollywoodPost I’m not a journalist lol, that’s a weird ass flex man! The title said “Speaking Swahili with Lupita Nyong’o, many of us watched it bcz of the title. Yet there’s barely any real Swahili spoken in the video. Nobody is criticising the interview, so climb off ur insecure tryna prove you better than me attitude. I commented on the amount of Swahili spoken in the video. Clearly you need to learn how to read better and polish up your Swahili if you gonna represent it on your page. Otherwise keep it English, no prob
It’s a weird statement to say No Swahili was spoken in the interview when you compare it to every other American journalist interview. Obviously some was spoken as “Unakwenda wapi sasa kupata mahali pa utulivu?” Is not an English sentence nor is it Yoruba or Igbo or Portuguese, so was no Swahili spoken in the interview or is that your weird flex?
@@TheHollywoodPost Ignore the trolls man! Speaking as a Kenyan they can be really critical of every little thing Lupita was impressed and that’s all that matters at the end of the day.
Honestly speaking and I mean no shades, Lupita speaks Swahili but she is not fluent. I have watched numerous interviews where she had to speak in the language but she suffered. Her first MTV Base “Shuga” TV show she only had two lines in the first episode and none for the rest. Moreover, when she visited Zanzibar she hardly spoke Swahili despite the fact that the island is one of the places where the language is originated and widely spoken.
It’s commendable that he even tried… Perhaps he didn’t want to mispronounce or enunciate it incorrectly, and it is perceived as disrespectful… You can tell he wasn’t confident and how he said it but he wanted to show that he made an effort. Apparently she was ok with it because she was pleased, and responded accordingly…🤷🏽♀️
@DoItWrightRo africans are always pleased with the minimum effort of others. I say that as an African. I would liked to have seen at least an attempt to work towards an accent. But you're right, he did make an effort... it just seemed a really lazy one.
@@DoItWrightRo He gets E for effort. Getting an accent right is difficult for a lot of people let alone cadence. You have to live in the country to get the right cadence, and even, then it's not always there. There are plenty of people from foreign countries who speak English, where English is an official language, and for the life of me I have no idea what they are saying. I am from the US.
@@gems3604 The saying is as follows: “The phrase 'A for Effort' is used when recognizing that someone tried hard to accomplish something although they might not have been successful. Example of Use: “The cake didn't turn out like she had planned, but I give her an A for effort!” But to your other point…. This should be common knowledge….. The cadence, tone, inflection in one’s dialect, is often contingent upon the region in where they reside.
