Every day as part of our Swahili homework, we write a journal entry about what we did that day. I thought I’d post an English translation here as a way of giving a window on what an average day looks like at the moment. Plus, it should give an idea […]
At the end of our first week of language learning, there’s a lot to like about Swahili. It’s way more phonetic than English (goodbye diphthongs!) and the grammar structure is more like Hebrew, except the verb stems are long enough that they don’t disappear. Plus, there are no gendered pronouns […]
One of the first activities we did when we got to St Andrew’s Hall was to do a DISC profile. Obviously these sorts of tools are open to all kinds of abuse but for our group, it showed up something very interesting: almost all of us identified ‘I’ as either […]
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