💃🏽Tango-my-Lingo💃🏽
If you’ve lived in SA in the early 2000s…the first four greetings in that order will remind you of a kiddies show we used to watch😹, I think it was called, Fundani nathi … Surprisingly enough, that inspired this writing piece. Enjoy
Sanibonani. Dumelang. Absheni. Hello. Bonjour. Bom dia. Olà. Môre. Mambo. Jambo. Wetwawo. Mamuka sei.
It takes two to tango💃🏽It really does.
The art of language is a beautiful thing. In every moment at least two people have to connect in order to understand each other. To change vowels and connect through adjectives. The onomatopoeia and clichés. With the wind carrying the beauty of one language to the ears of another.
All you bilingual babies. We appreciate you. It’s not easy but it is definitely a beautiful gift to speak more than three languages at least. How more beautiful is it, to speak a few languages from different countries on top of that. Or to at least understand it, and communicate in another.
Let us embrace this art and use it whenever possible. Paint the town from the tips of our tongue. To make music with our lips and with our soul. That is the art of language.