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Semi-serious kiswahili lessons: chapter 7

Talking about numbers and their meaning

19-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

We have reached the seventh of the twelve episodes of our "semi-serious lessons" of Kiswahili.
Our disenchanted, curious but certainly not academic journey around the language spoken in Kenya and much of East Africa, comes to talk about the world of numbers and how today (especially when combined with the god of money) they influence language and tend to diversify and divide, even though for Kiswahili, historically they had more of a meaning of community, of aggregation. 
Are you ready? Moja, mbili, tatu....
ENJOY YOUR VISION!
(VIDEO IN ITALIAN)
 

 

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