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Le Wolof vivant : Wolof Live Here !
Posted by mclearskin on August 17, 2009
Posted in EN, FR | Tagged: conversation, dictionary, dictionnaire, live, talk, wolof | Comments Off
Help The Children of Senegal !
Posted by mclearskin on February 22, 2009
Posted in EN, LOUNGE | Tagged: children, senegal, talibes | Leave a Comment »
Pronunciation Guide
Posted by mclearskin on January 17, 2009
The Wolof pronunciation system is relatively simple. Every symbol stands for only one sound. Every symbol is pronounced the same way in every word.
Wolof vowels are either long or short. Long vowels are always doubled, while short vowels are not. Long vowels must be pronounced a little bit longer than a short vowel. Long and short vowels can occur anywhere in the word. The distinction between long and short vowels is very important, because it is sometimes the only way to distinguish pairs of words which have different meanings.
There is a lot of prenalization in Wolof, occurring usually with nasals such as m, n, etc.
Peace Corps The Gambia
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A Miracle
Posted by mclearskin on November 24, 2008
Millions of pilgrims go to Lourdes, a world famous city located in France, praying and hoping for wonderful miracles. Jacques did not need to go that far away. A miracle happened on his balcony, back in the nineties.
Click on the following link: African Football, and you’ll read the French story of a miracle. If you – just like me – don’t believe in miracles, you’ll be amazingly surprised. Such things can happen. Sometimes. To some people. Till now, the only miracle I could experience in my life is to collect millions of problems. Hopefully your experience is much better than mine.
See you.
Posted in EN, LOUNGE | Tagged: 1990, africa, argentina, cameroon, football, italy, miracle, organ, outsider, transplantation, world cup | Leave a Comment »
Flying Business Class with Air Internet
Posted by mclearskin on November 22, 2008
In the near future, I’ll proudly present to you some of the most important persons of our world : The Yellow Pages People of Senegal. Mbour will be our first stop. There are a lot of small businesses in Mbour.
Les voyageurs de notre Classe Affaires : Les indispensables de toute ville, petite comme Mbour, ou grande comme New York ou Paris ! Ceux sans qui nous ne serions rien, mais rien du tout. Dans cette rubrique, vous rencontrez des petits commerces du Sénégal.
Nous commencerons par ceux de Mbour La Belle Poubelle, capitale de la Petite Côte, petite ville qui fut si belle et qui pourrait encore le redevenir si seulement les bras musclés –qui n’y font pas défaut– savaient tenir un … balai et acceptaient de s’en servir.
Posted in Business Class, EN, FR | Tagged: africa, Business Class, classe affaires, entreprendre, mbour, pages jaunes, senegal, travail, yellow pages | Leave a Comment »
Le Touriste
Posted by mclearskin on September 3, 2008
Five years ago, I started entering each and every Wolof word and phrase which I came across onto all my high-tech appliances (cell phones, MP3 players, iPod video, even my Chinese electronic dictionary Besta contains Wolof stuff). Having them always handy was perfect to learn some vocab while standing in never ending queue lines or sitting on trains. But I became sick and tired of having only parts of vocab here and there, all scattered all over my high-tech world. Not to mention the files located on my PC.
A few months ago, I started to do what millions of people on the planet do : wasting their precious time blogging. So it didn’t take long to set up a new blog exclusively dedicated to the Wolof language, Senegal and Africa : Le Petit Wolof. At first, I meant to do it only for my own use. Then, I decided to share it with you.
On the other hand, due to the extreme difficulties for Senegal citizens to get a tourist visa to tour Europe or the USA etc. Air Internet is the carrier of choice for taking them to many beautiful places at no cost.
Since August 18, 2008 (birthdate), Le Petit Wolof has already visited:
Depuis qu’il a vu le jour le 18 Août 2008, Le Petit Wolof a déjà visité:
Afrique du Sud 
, Algérie 
, Allemagne 
, Arabie Saoudite 
, Argentine 
, Australie 
, Autriche 
, Bahrain 
, Belgique 
, Bénin 
, Brésil 
, Brunei , Bulgarie 
, Burkina Faso 
, Canada 
, Chypre 
, Colombie 
, Communauté Européenne 
,Costa Rica 
, Côte d’Ivoire 
, Danemark 
, Egypte 
, Emirats Arabes Unis 
, Espagne 
, Equateur 
, Finlande 
, France 
, Gabon 
, Gambie 
, Ghana 
, Grèce 
, Guadeloupe 
, Guyane française 
, Hong Kong 
, Hongrie 
, Inde 
, Indonésie 
, Italie 
, Jamaïque 
, Japon 
, Jordanie 
, Kenya 
, Koweit 
, Liban 
, Luxembourg 
, Malaisie 
, Mali 
, Maroc 
, Mauritanie 
, Mexico 
, Moldavie 
, Norvège 
, Nouvelle Calédonie 
, Nouvelle Zélande 
, Pays-Bas 
, Philippines 
, Pologne 
, Polynésie française 
, Portugal 
, Qatar 
, Réunion 
, Roumanie 
, Royaume Uni 
,Russie 
, Sénégal 
, Serbie 
, Slovaquie 
, Slovénie
, Suède 
, Suisse 
, Syrie 
, Taïwan 
, Tchéquie 
, Trinidad et Tobago 
, Tunisie 
, Turquie 
, Ukraine 
, USA 
, Venezuela 
, Vietnam 
.
Hello, World ! Happy to meet you !
Learn more about your neighbor next door by clicking on the flags.
Le Petit Wolof, c’est ce que je fais depuis 5 ans sur mon portable, mon iPod vidéo et mes MP3 players. Les phrases en wolof et leurs traductions sont éparpillées un peu partout dans mes gadgets high-tech. Je voulais les rassembler sur un site, rien que pour moi. C’est alors que je me suis dis : Pourquoi ne pas en faire profiter les autres?
De plus, les gens que je connais au Sénégal ne pouvant pas voyager à cause de Miss Visa qui fait toujours la grimace (comme si ce n’était déjà pas assez difficile de réunir l’argent pour le billet, le séjour et, éventuellement, quelques cadeaux pour la famille), je les emmènerai donc en balade par Air Internet, en attendant les vrais billets ALLER-RETOUR.
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