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Say No to a Lot of Yeses

Katika maisha watu watakufitini, watakurubuni na watakukatisha tamaa. Sema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi.

Katika maisha watu wengi hawataki kukuona ukiendelea kwa sababu ukiendelea unakuwa kioo kwao. Ghafla wataanza kukutazama. Wanajua wana akili kama wewe, wamesoma kama wewe, au wana akili kuliko wewe, au wamesoma kuliko wewe, na labda wanazijua sifa zako za udhaifu na sifa zako za ushupavu toka…

LESSON #86: Yes or No…

If you speak 2 or more languages, you are likely to have discovered that different languages use yes/no in different ways. What I mean is, for example my native language being Swahili, when I first started learning English I really struggled because the two words weren’t used in the same way as in Swahili. Whereas I’d normally reply with ndiyo in Swahili, I soon discovered that I should actually…