Africa music – Swahili rap: X Plastaz (Hi Quality version)
August 23, 2008 by Admin · 4 Comments
High Quality version (select ‘watch in high quality’).
Not Bongo Flava, this is East African / Tanzanian Hip Hop. Last video of the late mc Faza Nelly from X Plastaz, Tanzania’s most well known hip hop crew who merge Swahili rap and traditional Maasai music. This video to the song ‘Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki?’ about poverty in Tanzania was partly recorded on top of Ol Doinyo Lengai, a remote, active volcano and the Maasai’s ‘Mountain of God’ which had its 1st major eruption in years the day after Nelly died.
Languages: Kiswahili and Maa (kiMaasai)
LYRICS:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus…
TRANSLATION:
http://www.xplastaz.com/v2/ninidhambi…
More info and music at www.xplastaz.com and www.myspace.com/xplastaz
And check out more on African hip hop at www.africanhiphop.com
Duration : 0:4:45
KU IVUKO (Rwanda African Music in Kinyarwanda and Swahili)
August 19, 2008 by Admin · 25 Comments
Ku Ivuko is a music video (Musique Rwandaise Vidéo Clip) in Kinyarwanda and swahili about how I miss Rwanda and all of those that I was raised with. Iyi ni Indirimbo iri mu Ikinyarwanda Umunyarwanda wese yakunda. Ihere amaso iyo video. Music by Mr. D ft. Didi (aka African Sun) Music Video done by DJ. Yoniyo the the own of The YONIYO PRODUCTION STUDIO that produces computer generated music beats but specialize more in Videos (Leave or send a message and contact info to user (YoniyoProduction) if you want any of your work to be Put together by Yoniyo’s Production Studio) Muhorane Imana! (God Bless)
Duration : 0:6:22
I need a translation from Swahili to English: Harusi Ni Furaha Sote Tufurahi?
August 16, 2008 by Admin · 1 Comment
I think it means: joy to everybody: we shall rejoice.
Yesu Nakupenda
August 13, 2008 by Admin · 25 Comments
African dancing they don’t show you on National Geographic – Rose Muhando sings praises to Jesus
Duration : 0:7:5
Is Swahili a particularly hard language to learn for an English-speaking person?
August 9, 2008 by Admin · 4 Comments
I know there are a lot of things that someone’s ability to learn a language depends on, but, as a whole, is Swahili fairly straightforward or overly complicated?
Cheers!
The sound system of Swahili is quite easy for an English-speaker to learn. The problem is that the grammar is very different. Where English and the other European languages use suffixes to do all the work, Swahili uses prefixes. It’s a very interesting system, but until you get used to it it will be difficult.
Swahili BBC
August 9, 2008 by Admin · Leave a Comment
When Learning kiswahili you could use BBC Swahili: a great option would be to read the news in Swahili with a dictionary or translator at hand.
BBC Swahili can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/swahili/.
SWAHILI LANGUAGE TEACHER PART 2
August 8, 2008 by Admin · 24 Comments
Interesting video on learning swahili :
The video teaches basic Kiswahili language for traveller. Eliminate the fear of learning Kiswahili because kiswahili has very few words to learn.
Duration : 0:8:44
How hard is swahili to learn?
August 6, 2008 by Admin · 5 Comments
I’m thinking about learning swahili? How hard is it to learn when english is my first language? Any other good language ideas for me? I want to be a linguist and a translator. I was thinking maybe Farsi…thanks!
It’s pretty hard to learn if you come from a purely English language backround. It is much easier to read than to speak. However, you should try learning French or perhaps some Latin.
check the how hard is Swahili to learn post for an answer to this question
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