Sunday 30 March 2008

Melci for the kitchen with lice

In Kinyarwanda - there is no difference between the ‘r’ and the ‘l’. Not as in the stereotype of Chinese, where every ‘r’ becomes an ‘l’. In Rwanda the ‘r’ and the ‘l’ are completely interchangeable. As are the ‘k’ and the ‘ch’ (tjsh). Don’t be amazed when you get ‘kitchen with lice and mushrooms’ when you have ordered 'chicken with rice and mushrooms'. ‘Freuls’ are ‘fleurs’ (frowels, or: flowers), sausage in the supermarket here is with or without galric, Kigali can as well be Tsjigari. Last Saturday we enjoyed a chocorate clep for dessert - aka pancake with nutella.

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