Burkina Faso: Learn Fulfude in six seconds

Posted 25 May 2008 12:46 GMT

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· Borkina Fasô : mahafehy ny fiteny Fulfude ao anatin'ny enina sekondra monja

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Stephen believes you can learn Fulfude (one of the languages spoken in Burkina Faso) in six seconds!: “We're all familiar with dazzling language-learning promises made by Linguaphone and similar companies: Speak fluent Arabic in just three weeks! Swedish in a weekend! Well, here's Fulfulde in six seconds. Just learn this word: CHIBBEL-LIBBEL.”

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FulaniBoy

There is more to Fulfude than that, much more.

# 23 November 2008, 1:56 am

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