According to content creator Vincent Mboya, he is looking for a Kiswahili teacher.
Nine months after moving to Canada, the contentious YouTuber voiced his concern that he’s starting to lose his language skills.
Mboya said that since he now speaks English, Spanish, and French most of the time, moving to Toronto has drastically decreased his opportunities to speak Kiswahili in an internet video.
He fears that he will become less proficient in his original tongue as a result of his lack of practice.
The young man asked people to get in touch with him on social media if they could help him learn Kiswahili again.
“It has been nine months since I came to Toronto, and I’ve started forgetting Kiswahili. Here, I speak English, Spanish, and French, and I can’t remember the last time I spoke Kiswahili.
I’m getting worried because I’m forgetting my language. If you can help me, please DM me on Instagram or TikTok,” Mboya appealed.
Here are some of their reactions from Kenyans
Babake Willie: “Does he even look like a person who has forgotten Kiswahili leave alone his mother tongue.”
Makokha James: “Hope he remembers how he failed English exam.”
Kiru Rozina: “Let him forget English too before we help him,,,, after that fb family will decide how to help.”
Keh Ruboh: “this is how I used to forget my mother tongue after travelling to Nairobi for holidays,until I got chased by a dog I instantly got back to factory settings😂😂”
Mum Marcella Wamboi: “I have a friend who based in America more twenty years but maina let me tell you…we communicate our mother tongue like no one’s business,so let him aache kutubeba ufala.”
Silver Bradon: “What I know you cannot forget your first language.”
Protus Matere: “I have been away for 3 good years but I came back speaking Kiswahili fluently,what of nine months bro,hio yako sijui.”
