Jostein
Habari Habari. Jina langu ni Jostein. Natoka Unowe. Sijui yoyote Kiswahili, lakini nataka kujifunza.
Nov 13, 2015 2:10 PM
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Habari

Habari gani? Jina langu ni Jostein. Natoka Unowe. Sijui yoyote Kiswahili, lakini nataka kujifunza.

 

Welcome to a fantastic language! It will be useful in a large block of African countries. I see that you speak fluent English. I consider myself an upper intermediate level Kiswahili speaker but you will find that for some reason one else corrects entries in this section. So a few things:

1. "Habari" means literally "news" and is usually but not always followed by something else:

"Habari gani" (Literally: What kind of news?) 

"Habari ya asubuhi?" (Lit.: News of the morning?)

"Habari yako" (Lit: What's your news? to one person)

"Habari zenu" (Lit: What's your news? to more than one person)

2. "yoyote" - not needed here. You will learn that this will need to agree with the noun Kiswahili and would become "chochote" for a noun from the Ki-/Vi noun class.

November 14, 2015
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Habari

Habari. Jina langu ni Jostein. Natoka Unowe. Sijui Kiswahili chochote, lakini nataka kujifunza.

 

You can use plain "Habari". "Habari gani" is often used by foreigners, "wazungu".

 

November 19, 2015

Habari

Habari. Jina langu ni Jostein. Natoka Unowe. Sijui yoyote Kiswahili   simjui mtu yeyote anayeongea kiswahili, lakini nataka kujifunza.
February 25, 2016
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