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How about some lessons in Swahili from those of you who have made the trip a few times. What do I need to know. Any good Swahili jokes,curse words, or pick-up lines appreciated.

Elmo
 
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My votes go, in this order, for:

1. "Piga! Kufa!" ["He's hit! He's dead!" (Said by a Maasai tracker when the hunter makes a good shot.)]

2. "Na kunywa, na kunywa, simba!" ["Drink, drink to the lion!" (Sung and chanted by the entire camp staff, all festooned with leafy bushes tied to their heads, wearing capes of colored cloth and shaking tin can, rock filled maracas as the successful hunter fires his rifle into the air while returning to camp with his lion. Followed, of course, by a round of drinks for everyone in camp on the hunter!)]

3. And last but not least: "Chakula tayari!" ["Food's ready!" (Speaks for itself.]

4. One more: "Maji moto." ["Hot water's here." (Tent boy, every morning and night, right on time, in a well run camp.)]

Sorry. Edited to provide translations, etc.


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That's great Mrlexma, but it would help me considerably if you put the english translations in your post also wave

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Mbogo, kubwa sana !!

Nataka pombe biridi tafadahli !!

Wapi choo??
 
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Good shootie baass!


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Alright dammit, lets do this the hard way Roll Eyes

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Yes that is a big fine buff. Here's yer beer and the john is down the hall on the left.

mrlexma

I'm thinking that's SHOOT...DEAD and something something Lion, and Dinner's Ready, but I could be wrong.

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Sheeet, chute em twice times more baaas..or maybe thats Masai, oh well nut


Ray Atkinson
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Asante, M'zee Atkinson.. You are always a great help. May the nyokas always kambi in your choo Big Grin

Elmo
 
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1. Dr. Mbogo! Dr. Mbogo! Pesce! Pesce!

2. Toa 577 Tyrannosaur

3. Simba Hapana Simba! Pesce! Pesce!

But my all time favorite is:

Msasi haogopi mwiba
 
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Favorite as below nut




 
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Show mercy on the ignorant and give the english translation also wave

Elmo
 
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elmo,
Don't tell anyone shame
but the translation is:

"- A hippopotamus has destroyd my hut" jump

This was the first words in Swahili my father heard when he entered Tanzania and asked a man why he was so sad...

This was in the late 1970.s..

husky




 
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Guys,

The best is Towa kitu kidogo Big Grin



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That's a good one. I'll try to use "Kiboko ameharibu Kibanda yetu" as often as possible on my trip in July. I expect it will be the proper answer to questions such as...

How could you miss such an easy shot..?

What happenned to the last of the scotch...?

Can I see your passport, please...etc.,etc.

It's kind of a "one size fits all" answer

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I may not get this exactly right but here goes"haraki, haraki, hapana baraki" It is used for when you are trying to get something done on first world time schedule and progress occurs at the african rate. It translates "To hurry, to hurry, is not a blessing". I was taught this phrase at the airport waiting for supplies to arrive so our small charter plane could leave to take us out onto the Kilombero floodplane for buffalo. We were told to be at the airport at 8 to leave by 9. Around noon the supplies arrived and we were out of the airport before one in the afternoon. Haraki, haraki, hapana baraki.


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One that is handy to know in advance (sounds like) ana ni ujaj - "it is coming".

It is heard as the trackers go flying past you to the rear.


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Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

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Anything John Wayne says in "Hatari!"

RCG
 
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Originally posted by elmo:
How about some lessons in Swahili from those of you who have made the trip a few times. What do I need to know. Any good Swahili jokes,curse words, or pick-up lines appreciated.

Elmo


Elmo, here are a few:

1- Mambo poa! Slang for "things are coo" or Mambo? Poa! if asked What's up? Cool!
2- Wapi? Where? when you are looking at what they are seeing and you can't!
3- Nashukuru: I am grateful.
4- Unasemaje? What do you say? What are you saying?
5- Kabubi: Party - held after a succesful "cat" hunt as described in above post.
6- Nyoka! Kimbia: Snake! run!


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J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa

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Elmo;

How about "poli poli" meaning "slowly, slowly". My PH said we went poli poli because he couldn't drive any faster!!!! Eeker

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bunduki - English: gun / rifle
piga bunduki - English: shoot (a gun)

-Bob F. Smiler

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BFaucett

My hat's off to you for providing that excellent link thumb

Poa post, Bwanamich

Regards

Elmo
 
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It wasn't Swahili, and I didn't catch the phrase, but when I asked the PH for a translation of what the tracker said it came out "That 416 don't take no shit!"
 
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