Saturday 21 July 2012

"ANY ANIMAL!"



Drawing animals for my students is something I've done before.
Note for the folks at home: English is the second or third language of many Kenyans, behind their mother tongue and Kiswahili. Taking this into consideration, Kenyan high schoolers are surprisingly proficient in the language, and all of their classes (besides Kiswahili class) are taught in English. In general, Kenyans speak "British English", including such words as "lorry" (which is a truck), "tuition" (to replace "tutoring"), and "loo" (an outrageously melodic name for a toilet). Misunderstandings between Americans and Kenyans speaking English are common: it took me a month or so to figure out that "smart" means "fashionable", not "intelligent".