Angalia, Ibrahim ni mwalimu katika tovuti ya lugha inayoitwa LingQ.
Look|||||website|||called|
You see, George is a tutor at an online language system called LingQ.
Sielewi.
I don't understand
I do not understand.
Alinionyeshea jinsi ya kujifunza kwenye LingQ.
showed me|how||||
He showed me how to learn on LingQ.
Hiyo ndiyo iliyonisaidia sana.
that||that helped me|
That is what really helped me.
Unamaanisha LingQ ilikusaidia zaidi kuliko kuishi na Ibrahim?
you mean||helped you|||||
You mean LingQ's system helped you even more than living with George?
Wote wawili walinisaidia, lakini LingQ ndiyo iliyonisaidia sana.
||they helped me|but||is|that helped me|
Well they both helped me, but LingQ is what really helped me.
Sikuamini, Sikuelewi.
I didn't believe|I do not understand
I do not believe you, I don't get it.
Ibrahim alinisaidia kugundua kwamba njia niliyotumia kujifunza Kiingereza ilikuwa mbaya.
|helped me|discover|||I used|||was|bad
George made me understand that the way I was learning English was wrong.
Nilikuwa na wasiwasi sana kuhusu sarufi.
||worry|||grammar
I was too concerned about grammar.
Niliogopa sana kufanya makosa.
I was afraid|||mistakes
I was too afraid to make mistakes.
Nilikuwa na wasiwasi sana kuaibika.
||||to be embarrassed
I was too worried about being embarrassed.
Lakini si unahitaji kujua sarufi ili kuzungumza vizuri?
|is not|you need||grammar|to|speak|
But don't you need to know grammar to speak well?
Hapana.
No.
Nilianza kutambua kwamba kama nilifurahia kujifunza Kiingereza, haikujalisha ikiwa nilikosea.
I started|to recognize|||I enjoyed|||didn't matter||I made mistakes
I started to realize that if I enjoyed learning English, it did not matter if I made mistakes.
Singeaibika kufanya makosa.
Would be embarrassed||mistakes
Making mistakes would not embarrass me.
Kufanya makosa ni sehemu ya kujifunza.
|mistakes||part||
Making mistakes is a part of learning.
Kwa hivyo umejifunza jinsi gani?
|so|you have learned|how|
So how did you learn?
Ibrahim alinieleza tu nisikilize na nisome kwa wingi na nihifandhi maneno na misemo kwenye LingQ.
|explained to me||||read to me||abundance||store|||proverbs and sayings||
George told me to just listen and read a lot and to save words and phrases on LingQ.
Hapo ndipo nilipoanza kufurahia lugha.
there|there|I started|to enjoy|
That is when I started to enjoy the language.
Hapo ndipo nilipoanza kuboresha Kiingereza changu.
|||to improve||
That is when I started to really improve my English.
Kwa kutojali kuhusu sarufi, ulianza kuzungumza vizuri?
|not caring||||speaking|
Just by not thinking of grammar you actually started to speak better?
Ndiyo, ilibidi nisijalishwe na yale niliyofundishwa shuleni kwa miaka mingi.
|had to|I shouldn't be judged||those|what I was taught||||many
Yes, I had to forget what I had been taught at school for so many years.