I recently discovered
Chichewa 101, the online course for learning Chichewa, the main language of Malawi. I've no intention of actually trying to develop fluency in the language given I would have very rare opportunity to ever use it and I struggled to learn it to any useful level while I lived in Malawi (particularly given that I taught solely in English and there was another native language spoken in the area I lived in).
However, it is a lovely language and I'm enjoying the regular
Chichewa word with definition tweets. Yesterday, I learned what must be my favourite ever Chichewa word.
Anyakwawa.
This translates as village chieftain.
I wish I'd known that while our adorable bunny Anya was alive. It would have been a perfect nickname for her.
She was after all very much our village chieftain.
7 comments:
so cute.
and she was so adorable too!xx Rachel
Your bunny is so pretty, nice name! Enjoy the rest of your week!
Sounds like a wonderful way to enrich your vocabulary. Today, over here, is thanksgiving, so Happy Thanksgiving!
adorable bunny
I like that word. Thanks for the introduction. It must have been quite an experience to live in Malawi and teach English there. :-)
Greetings from London.
So she does look. Will you ever get another?
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