Siwezi kukumbuka mengi ya yale niliyojifunza shuleni.
|remember|many||that|I learned|
I cannot remember much of what I learned at school either.
Kwangu mimi, hakuna mengi ya kusahau.
to me|||||to forget
In my case there is not too much to forget.
Mimi pia!
Me too!
Lakini njia niliyotumia kujifunza lugha shuleni ilinifanya nichukie kujifunza lugha.
|way|that I used||||made me|hate it||
But the way I learned languages at school made me hate learning languages.
Ilifanya nikaidi lugha niliyojifunza.
It made|I ignored||
It made me resist the language I was learning.
Nina hakika hilo ni kweli kwa watu wengi.
|certainly|that|||||
I am sure that is true for many people.
Ndio Watu wanapaswa kujifunza kufurahia lugha.
||should||to enjoy|
Yes, People have to learn to enjoy the language.
Watu wanapaswa kuacha kukaidi lugha na kuichukua kama kitu cha kawaida.
||leave|defy|||take it||||normal thing
People have to stop resisting the language and take it in naturally.
Naam, nadhani ilifaulu kwako.
name|I think|it succeeded|
Well I guess it really worked for you.
Kwa uhakika.
|for sure
Oh yes.
Ibrahim alinifundisha hilo, nami nikamruhusu kuishi katika nyumba yangu.
|taught me||I also|let him|to live|||
George taught me that so I let him stay in my apartment.
Kwa hivyo hukumkataa Ibrahim aidha?
||you didn't reject||either
So you did not resist George either?
Unamaanisha nini?
What do you mean|
What are you trying to say?
Yeye sio mpenzi wangu.
He is not my boyfriend.
Hatulali kitanda kimoja!
We don't sleep||one
We did not share the same bed!
Ilikuwa jambo nzuri kumruhusu kuishi katika nyumba yako.
|||allow him||||
It was nice of you to let him stay in your apartment.
Ilikuwa ni manufaa kwangu.
||beneficial|to me
It was good for me.
Nilikuwa na mazungumzo ya bure ya Kiingereza pamoja naye wakati wa kifungua kinywa na wakati wa chakula cha jioni.
||conversation||free|||with him|with him|||opens|||||||
I had free English conversations with him at breakfast and at dinner.
Wakati mwingine tunaenda kwa karamu pamoja.
|sometimes|we go||feast or party|
We would sometimes go to parties together.
Nadhani hilo lilisaidia Kiingereza chako.
||it helped||your
I guess that helped your English.
Ndiyo, lakini sasa nataka aondoke.
||||leave
Yes, but now I want him to leave.
Simhitaji tena.
I don't need|
I do not need him anymore.
Mbali na hilo, ameanza kunisumbua.
far|||has started|to bother me
Besides he is getting on my nerves.
Kwanini unasema hivyo?
Why||that
Why do you say that?
Mbona humtaki karibu tena?
Why|don't want him|close|
Why do you not want him around anymore?
Yeye ni mchafu.
||dirty
He is so messy.
Hazingatii usafi.
does not maintain|cleanliness
He does not clean up after himself.
Anacha nguo chafu kila mahali
He leaves||dirty||everywhere
He leaves dirty clothes lying around.