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She said she the class Fords to turn on historic power at Willowbank event Ipswich …. The Straits Times has covered it all. I'm a sports analyst on K24 and a football commentator at Radio Jambo. Billy on the other hand is a diehard campaigner for President Uhuru Jambo [online].
Nov ». English words that begin with j. English words that begin with ja. English words that begin with jam. Instead the standard reply to "Mambo" is "Poa". At Nairobi airport the announcer at least when I spent there 8 hours waiting for a connecting flight started any announcement with "Jambo".
So no surprise innocent tourists learn the wrong word If I use Swahili words in the ways that I am told they use in Kenya, then I usually get scolded and told that I am speaking poor Swahili like a Kenyan lol.
So, "Jambo" could be translated as: "Hello foreigner, may you enjoy your stay and not be bothered with negations, noun classes or other language details - unless you want to.
I've lived in various parts of TZ for almost 3 years and I've never heard "Jambo" by itself used on anyone not perceived to be a tourist. Also worth mentioning. In Tanzania this greeting is mostly used when called by an elder and responded to by a younger person. Jambo is a noun meaning "thing", "matter", "affair" an abstract thing as opposed to a tangible thing, which is a kitu. I think these phrases are basically short for. Jambo literally means "matter", or "issue", or in another context, "thing".
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