Tanzania to open Kiswahili teaching offices in foreign countries

[Ab-Titchaz]

Tanzania to open Kiswahili teaching offices in foreign countries

Traders sell their wares in Arusha, Tanzania. Kiswahili has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC) lingua franca.


The Tanzanian government will establish offices in foreign countries for the teaching of Kiswahili, a senior official has said.

Deputy Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports Amos Makalla said in an interview that the government will open a Kiswahili teaching office in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa very soon.

Thereafter, Tanzanian embassies will get instruction on setting up offices in countries where they are accredited.

Makalla said the move will help strengthen Kiswahili, which for over 50 years, has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC) lingua franca.

The language is also recognised and used in the African Union and the United Nations.

The Tanzanian Parliament last Thursday ratified a protocol on the establishment of the East African Kiswahili Commission, making Tanzania the second country that has ratified it after Kenya.

Ugandan parliament is yet to ratify the protocol, though it is one of the three countries which initially worked on it.

Burundi and Rwanda have already placed their requests with the EAC secretariat to work for the promotion of Kiswahili, but will have to wait until the initial signatories of the protocol, including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, ratify it.

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa...ountries/-/1066/1613920/-/ojmign/-/index.html

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Ajira hizo changamkeni!

 

[Sijali]

Usidhani watachukuliwa wanaosema ajila na laisi!

 

[KAIJED]

Vivid. So vivid.

 

[Ashantikingdom]

At least I can see a ray of hope.

 

[Thanda]

IDI AMIN IN THE USA

After the UK blunder, when IDi Amin was invited to the USA the Foreign Affairs team decided to coach him on what to say. They told him when he gets to the USA at JFK Kennedy Airport in New York, President Reagan would meet him. He was told to look at him in the eye American style and give a firm handshake. They told him after the handshake to ask Reagan "How are you?' Repeat "How are you?". The team told him Reagan would say many things in English after this statement but adviced Idi Amin not to try at all to repeat what Reagan says but at the end to say "Mee too."

When Idi Amin got to JFK Kennedy Airport in New York, Ronald Reagan was there to meet him. Idi Amin looked at him straight in the eye and offered a long and powerful African handshake to Reagan and asked him "Who are you?". Reagan was surprised but being an actor he took things in stride. Reagan said "I am Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States of America and the Husband of Nancy Reagan who is here with me'. Idi Amin remembering the coaching responded "Mee too."

On seeing this and knowing Amin's fury on return, the Foreign Relations team went to exile!

The Ugandans during Idi Amin's time did not know what was better – to suffer him at home or to be embarrassed abroad.

So knowing language is very important

• Tanzania to open Kiswahili teaching offices in foreign countries
  
  

  

  
  
  
  Traders sell their wares in Arusha, Tanzania. Kiswahili has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC) lingua franca.
  
  
  The Tanzanian government will establish offices in foreign countries for the teaching of Kiswahili, a senior official has said.
  
  Deputy Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports Amos Makalla said in an interview that the government will open a Kiswahili teaching office in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa very soon.
  
  Thereafter, Tanzanian embassies will get instruction on setting up offices in countries where they are accredited.
  
  Makalla said the move will help strengthen Kiswahili, which for over 50 years, has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC) lingua franca.
  
  The language is also recognised and used in the African Union and the United Nations.
  
  The Tanzanian Parliament last Thursday ratified a protocol on the establishment of the East African Kiswahili Commission, making Tanzania the second country that has ratified it after Kenya.
  
  Ugandan parliament is yet to ratify the protocol, though it is one of the three countries which initially worked on it.
  
  Burundi and Rwanda have already placed their requests with the EAC secretariat to work for the promotion of Kiswahili, but will have to wait until the initial signatories of the protocol, including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, ratify it.
  
  Tanzania to open Kiswahili teaching offices in foreign countries - Africa - nation.co.ke

 

[livinu]

its a good idea since it will expand the use of our kiswahili and creatig job opportunities.

 

[Said S Yande]

that is good 4 that

 

[Mwana wa Faraja]

Itakuza Lugha yetu kama litafanyiwa kazi.

 

[Adharusi]

nafuatilia hii

 

[nuoclocc2]

mu moi, mu moi ra, murongbay.net,mu moi open, mu moi open hom nay, mu sap openmu moi, mu moi ra, murongbay.net,mu moi open, mu moi open hom nay, mu sap open

 

[Kigogo]

Hivi hii nchi ina vipaumbele kweli

 

[rubaman]

Usidhani watachukuliwa wanaosema ajila na laisi!

Kwa kiswahili cha namna hii itatubidi tuhakikishe tunajifunza wenyewe kuongea na kuandika kiswahili sanifu kabla ya kuwafundisha wengine LOL

 

[rubaman]

Tanzania to open Kiswahili teaching offices in foreign countries

Traders sell their wares in Arusha, Tanzania. Kiswahili has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC) lingua franca.


The Tanzanian government will establish offices in foreign countries for the teaching of Kiswahili, a senior official has said.

Deputy Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports Amos Makalla said in an interview that the government will open a Kiswahili teaching office in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa very soon.

Thereafter, Tanzanian embassies will get instruction on setting up offices in countries where they are accredited.

Makalla said the move will help strengthen Kiswahili, which for over 50 years, has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC) lingua franca.

The language is also recognised and used in the African Union and the United Nations.

The Tanzanian Parliament last Thursday ratified a protocol on the establishment of the East African Kiswahili Commission, making Tanzania the second country that has ratified it after Kenya.

Ugandan parliament is yet to ratify the protocol, though it is one of the three countries which initially worked on it.

Burundi and Rwanda have already placed their requests with the EAC secretariat to work for the promotion of Kiswahili, but will have to wait until the initial signatories of the protocol, including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, ratify it.

Tanzania to open Kiswahili teaching offices in foreign countries - Africa - nation.co.ke

Ukiamini kila kisemwacho au kuahidiwa na serikali yetu utaipata.

 

[Jpk]

l don't think if the planners are serious with that.

 

[BUCHANA]

Vizuri kabisa, nami ninahitaji kazi hiyo

 

[Utingo]

Ajira hizo changamkeni!

si ajira hizo bali curse. hazitatangazwa lakini they will be filled by their daughters and sons

 

[Chachata]

Ni mhima kama kweli Tanzania tunataka kukuza Kiswahili na kutangaza taifa letu pi

 

[Ruzibiza]

Hivi hii nchi ina vipaumbele kweli

inavyo kabisa..."kufukuza watanzania wenye asili ya rwanda....

 

[Francis Dhuo]

if it'll be implemented...most of the swahili taker in various colleges and universities in tanzania 'll benefit on it..hence unemployment reduction also population.