Mukami's Three Languages

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Jambo! Habari? Kenya is my home. My family and I lived near Nairobi. I sometimes to the market in Nairobi. There I many people. Some of them different languages from mine.

Ken: Did you back to Kenya during the spring vacation?
Mukami: No, I didn't. But some Kenyan friends in Japan and saw me.
Ken: That's nice. Did you speak Swahili then?
Mukami: Yes, we did. We also spoke Kikuyu. For some of us, it's our mother tongue.
Ken: So, you English, Swahili and Kikuyu?
Mukani: Yes. They're part of the history of Kenya.
Ken: What do you ?
Mukami: Once the British Kenya, and some people English. But we didn't English as our national language. That is Swahili.
Ken: Kikuyu, Swahili and English. Three languages!
Mukami: Sure. And Ken, what about Japan? What's your mother tongue?