My husband is from Senegal. and I have been there about 3X. I hear it all day in the house but I have not become proficient yet but working on it. I can understand more than I can reply. Really want to improve my skills. Watching the Wolof videos help too.
I don’t speak Wolof, but my brother in law is from Senegal and speaks it with his family back home. If he’s anything to go by, the reputation hospitality among senagalese is no joke! Sadly, he hasn’t shown any interest in teaching their children any Wolof (or French, for that matter) - though I believe my sister has tried to convince him otherwise.
As incredibly it sounds, I’m from Senegal but I don’t speak Wolof... I’m from the countryside: the fula tribe, so I speak Fula. Every time I go to Dakar I feel like a foreigner... I’m really looking towards to learn basic Wolof. Any book recommendations?? Awesome video btw!! ❤️👏🏾
I'm learning it because my husband is from West Africa and it will be easier to communicate with his family instead of having him translate all the time.
I really appreciate your video, people all over west Africa make our dish and call it jollof rice, the English colonials couldn't say wolof so they replace the w for j. As a mixed Senegalese and Gambian I do know that some of your facts are the opposite like the Portuguese learned the caldo dish from the jola when they first entered the river Gambia. Arabic have influenced wolof through Islam and our signature dish, benachin was not and never influenced by the Spanish dish. Please try to understand our history before the Europeans and arabs entered west Africa and you'll see the if any thing Europeans and arabs borrowed from us. Its kind of like professional archeologist saying that the pyramids were build as the resting chambers for the pheroahs and the isralites built them not because of evidence but only through how these so called professionals think. Point here is that people from different cultures, think differently and to understand them one had to understand their spiritual thinking, grammar of the language and other things.
It's good seeing a toubab motivating tu study wolof (I learnt it myself and I'm so happy even with my very basic level) but it's a pity that she doesn't pronounce well some basic words in wolof like mbalax, tiebu dien, ba beneen or even the famous musician Thione Seck. A simple tutorial by a Senegalese friend might have helped before the recording!!! 🤔😁 Thanks for encouraging people, though
I’m a British white person and to my delight my 23&me DNA 🧬 returned with Senegambia dna 5 /6 generations back my great great great great grandparent was 100% Senegambian , I’m trying to learn and research everything, it’s sad also as they were probably bought here as a Slave 🇬🇧 🇸🇳 🇬🇲
My husband is from Senegal. and I have been there about 3X. I hear it all day in the house but I have not become proficient yet but working on it. I can understand more than I can reply. Really want to improve my skills. Watching the Wolof videos help too.
I am a wolof from Sénégal and i am happy for my language
I don’t speak Wolof, but my brother in law is from Senegal and speaks it with his family back home. If he’s anything to go by, the reputation hospitality among senagalese is no joke! Sadly, he hasn’t shown any interest in teaching their children any Wolof (or French, for that matter) - though I believe my sister has tried to convince him otherwise.
Am learning wolof my friends are from the Gambia
Learning Wolof because a friend introduced me to it also I plan on visiting Senegal in the near future. Loving it so far
As incredibly it sounds, I’m from Senegal but I don’t speak Wolof... I’m from the countryside: the fula tribe, so I speak Fula. Every time I go to Dakar I feel like a foreigner... I’m really looking towards to learn basic Wolof. Any book recommendations??
Awesome video btw!! ❤️👏🏾
Katy Sidibe just communicate with me and you will be alright. I am Sénégalaise living in Canada.
I heard this language from gambian and senegalese people on my working place. maybe in the future I will learn an african language
Tutti Wolof rek la degg, am learning :)
I have been using an app to learn Wolof, but it's not as user friendly as I'd like. Do you have a system you'd recommend?
Thanks again for your time
I'm learning it because my husband is from West Africa and it will be easier to communicate with his family instead of having him translate all the time.
Thank u very much am a senegalese and i speak wolof!
I really appreciate your video, people all over west Africa make our dish and call it jollof rice, the English colonials couldn't say wolof so they replace the w for j. As a mixed Senegalese and Gambian I do know that some of your facts are the opposite like the Portuguese learned the caldo dish from the jola when they first entered the river Gambia. Arabic have influenced wolof through Islam and our signature dish, benachin was not and never influenced by the Spanish dish. Please try to understand our history before the Europeans and arabs entered west Africa and you'll see the if any thing Europeans and arabs borrowed from us.
Its kind of like professional archeologist saying that the pyramids were build as the resting chambers for the pheroahs and the isralites built them not because of evidence but only through how these so called professionals think.
Point here is that people from different cultures, think differently and to understand them one had to understand their spiritual thinking, grammar of the language and other things.
i speak wolof
Awesome!! 🙌🏻 my friend speaks Wolof! Love your videos Lindsay!
I speak wolof and is am from Gambia
Great video! Could you do igbo?
Yes i
People that speak other languages can say whatever they want about you always remember that.
I speak Wolof! My Last name was in there 😍😂😎
Good video. I speak wolof. It's cute the way you pronounce some of the words and phrases, but hey, great anyway:)
Merci
ceebu jën is pronounced: chay-boo-john :D It's yummy!
Loved this channel. Props!
Thank you sister
I’m learning!
It's good seeing a toubab motivating tu study wolof (I learnt it myself and I'm so happy even with my very basic level) but it's a pity that she doesn't pronounce well some basic words in wolof like mbalax, tiebu dien, ba beneen or even the famous musician Thione Seck. A simple tutorial by a Senegalese friend might have helped before the recording!!! 🤔😁 Thanks for encouraging people, though
Hey what would you say is the best wolof course to take on memrise
I’m a British white person and to my delight my 23&me DNA 🧬 returned with Senegambia dna 5 /6 generations back my great great great great grandparent was 100% Senegambian , I’m trying to learn and research everything, it’s sad also as they were probably bought here as a Slave 🇬🇧 🇸🇳 🇬🇲
Never heard of it till now
Not gonna lie. Didn't know wolof existed .
And I speak f 6 languages myself.
You live and you learn
Wow nice
Nice video
THANKS FOR THE TIPS
Thiebu dienne is rice with fish 😜
considering
My last name was in there
I've never even heard of this language.
Do Russian
This one is obvious. 1) See the map. 2) Study.
Yum Comes from fulani not wolof you were wrong on some facts here
I do speak Wolof very fluently 😂🔥💯🇸🇳
First comment (not that it matters)
First literally and you accidentally mispronounced Mauritania