Language Barrier
So, the majority of Batswana understand and can speak English very well. I have to say that this has contributed to my overall success within the country because even though I am learning the local language (Setswana), it’s assuring to be able to express myself in my native tongue when Setswana just isn’t working for me that day. Teaching sexual reproductive health to a group of junior secondary students That being said, the English that is spoken here is very much a conglomeration from around the world: from England to South Africa. Many of the “isms” are infinitely disparate from the English I am familiar with and on days where I feel that I need to make my speech ingenuous, I am taken back when a youth in my PACT club utilizes a word like, “ameliorate” or “discordant”. Often it seems that the smallest words are the ones that cause the most confusion; such as “bathroom” literally means the room in which you bathe, and not where the toilet is located. Livingstone, Zamb