ISH YOWE!!!The office has been full of laughs this week as I’ve been struggling to learn the basics of Changana, one of the native Mozambican dialects. The office maid really gets off on it, she started doing extra sweeping around my desk so that she can teach me more words and laugh at me. It’s a fun language, particularly when you start improvising and by improvising I mean spouting of noises that sound like Changana followed by a hearty ISH YOWE!!! So here you have it, a few of the basics accompanied by a video aide. Learn it, love it! I expect to return home to a chorus os ISH YOWEs!!!
Ish Yowe – Cool, awesome, hyphy, let’s do this!
Mati Ya Tchane – Breakfast
Mati – Water
Dzixile – Good Morning
Na Ku Zanzda- I love you
