harrydre wrote:Come back home Professor!How come all those Years Ngugi has been mayuu he has never developed an accent, yet @ kiash 1 year later he couldn't understand kiswahili?
Accent is not a problem for as long as you know how to switch to make yourself understood without looking down at those you are talking to. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the president of Liberia does it effortlessly, one minute she is speaking like the Havard graduate that she is, the next she speaks the pidgin Liberian English like a local market woman. Uhuru speaks English like an Elite, Kiswahili like a mwananchi and Kikuyu like a Wangige matatu tout.
There is a certain Akorino family in Texas that still wears their vilemba. When they come home and their Texas bred children speak at the Akorino conventions, they speak deeper and more fluent Kikuyu than their Kenyan counterparts. In Texas the children speak with a Texas accent and recently one of their daughters started working for a community that deals with Spanish speaking people because of her fluency in Spanish.....