
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Miami Ghosts

Sunday, 3 January 2010
Chinglish

Monday, 19 October 2009
Kenya - Mombasa & Swahili
Mombasa is Kenya’s vibrant coastal city on the Indian Ocean. Home to the Swahili tribe in Kenya, one can visually see the influences left behind by more than twelve centuries of contact with Arab traders; the mosques, the calling sound to player and the parade of Kaftans and Hijabs.
The Swahili tribe are coastal people with very rich historical and cultural heritage. Some of the earliest inhabitants of the East African coast were their ancestors, Cushitic herdsmen. The Cushitic people were joined by Bantu speaking tribes. Other groups later migrated to this coastline, including Arab, Hindi, Portuguese, and Indonesian traders. They, too, intermarried with the indigenous people, giving rise to a new culture, people and language.
The Arabic culture though has had the greatest influence in shaping Swahili traditions. One major legacy of the Arab culture is the prevalence of the Islamic religion among the Swahili people. Swahili children, for example, must attend Madrassa - religious classes in which they study the Koran and learn the Arabic language -from an early age.
Friday, 2 October 2009
JAM.HOW FOR EVERYONE

Language Lovers & Survivors
1. Learn: a new word a day on the go
2. Quiz yourself: memory recall
3. Take with you while you wait...doctor's office, airport, bank, post office, bus stop, tube stop...
4. Take JAM with you everywhere, even to private places ...we'll leave it to your imagination :)
5. Leave laptop & instead take some JAM on holiday
6. Play with friends (memory and snap with 2 JAM packs)
The creativity with jam is endless. Share it & Spread it!
JAM English Flashcards: Fruit & Vegetables