Should Black Folks around the World learn Swahili?

[DarlingNikki]

Ok cuz I troll and support fukkery..ok

Mhm, troll, like this thread. I hope this shyt is trolling.

 

[observe]

Mhm, troll, like this thread. I hope this shyt is trolling.

I'm not trolling..anyway..I'm gonna learn the language one of these days

 

[DarlingNikki]

I'm not trolling..anyway..I'm gonna learn the language one of these days

Lol. Why should every black people learn Swahili?

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Doggy, i speak 3 languages fluently. 4 if you count my limited spanish. English was the 4th language I learned and it has become tied with my native language as primary.
Knowing all these languages isn't helping us communicate any better than we are. The problem with blacks across the world is more about acceptance and ignorance.

Sometimes me and my friend speak to each other in french around classmates and coworkers just to piss their nosy asses off because they're always all up in our business. But other than that there's no real purpose to it. We're not communicating any better than if we just spoke english

That's a really good reason to do it (but it would be putting the cart before the horse in our situation). There was this documentary I saw on YouTube about the black hair industry (not Good Hair, a different one) that talked about the Korean invasion. In the doc, the film maker spoke with a Korean store owner that said all of their catalogs and material is written in Korean. When the film maker asked him why he kept it 100 and said it's so they have a leg up against black competitors trying to compete with them since blacks don't speak Korean.

It wouldn't work in our situation because unfortunately we don't have an industry we own in the US. If we had one, then having all of the material in Swahili would be an advantage for obvious reasons.

 

[observe]

Lol. Why should every black people learn Swahili?

I think I already explained that as it should be a universal language for us..I would say we should all learn to speak Medu Neter, but Swahili seems more logical, plus it comes from our home continent..

 

[Lewis Black]

I heard black gang members in prison speak Swahili, to hide things from aryans n mexicans.

 

[Rawtid]

It's not Wednesday.

Got 'em!

 

[ignorethis]

No. Why should I as a Nigerian learn Swahili?? What use is that for me??
Why cant all black people learn Yoruba or Igbo??

Really, Igbo and Yoruba is where the money is at.

Lmao imagine asking a bunch of Nigerians to learn Swahili

 

[Premeditated]

I'm already in the process of that. I plan on visiting Tanzania, specifically Zanzibar one day.

 

[.༼-◕_◕-༽.]

I heard this idea brought up in a video I was watching. But it would be the one language where we can communicate with eachother no matter where we are from..like I could be talking to a brotha from Brazil in Swahili..or a brotha in France..I think I'm gonna start trying to learn the language..

This was the idea around making Kiswahili the regional language for much of East Africa and some parts of Central Africa. And I think it has actually worked. Mimi ninasema katika Kiswahili. It's REALLY awesome to have a common African language in a particular region. I know Somalis, Ugandans, Kenyans, Tanzanians and Congolese who speak Kiswahili and it's far better than trying to learn multiple languages at once.

 

[.༼-◕_◕-༽.]

Really, Igbo and Yoruba is where the money is at.

Lmao imagine asking a bunch of Nigerians to learn Swahili

For one thing, Kiswahili is waaaaaay easier to learn than Igbo or Yoruba. Yoruba is a tonal language and the average English speaker is NOT HERE FOR ALLA DAT!!!! I know people whose parents speak Yoruba to them AT HOME who got their faces cracked trying to learn Yoruba the university level. So WTF I look like as an American trying to learn it???? I think Kiswahili (as there are lots of learning resources) IS a good language to learn. Especially with the tech sector growing in Kenya. I can do a little bit in Hausa, and I know maybe ONE WORD of Igbo, but Kiswahili is spoken over a very wide region and is a very friendly language to learn.

 

[Imhotep]

This was the idea around making Kiswahili the regional language for much of East Africa and some parts of Central Africa. And I think it has actually worked. Mimi ninasema katika Kiswahili. It's REALLY awesome to have a common African language in a particular region. I know Somalis, Ugandans, Kenyans, Tanzanians and Congolese who speak Kiswahili and it's far better than trying to learn multiple languages at once.

Ala?!
Nani mwingine?

 

[IronFist]

Habari Gani

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

Why Swahili of all the languages in Africa?

 

[IronFist]

^ you have a point

Yoruba
Woloft

and some others are missing from the crux of this.