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Ugandan: Oli otya nno, Nnyabo?
♫ (How are you, Miss/Madame)
Visitor: Bulungi, ate ggwe? Ab’eka bali batya?
♫ (I’m fine, and you? And how are those at home?)
Ugandan: Bali bulungi.
♫ (They are fine)
Visitor: Mmm.
♫ ( - sound acknowledging the reply)
Ugandan: Mmm. Ova wa?
♫ (Where do you come from?)
Visitor: Nva mu Amerika.
♫ (I am from America)
Ugandan: Ooo! Bwe kiri?
♫ (Oh! Is that so?)
Naki speaking to her mother at a distance: Maama, ŋŋenze!
♫ (I’m going out.)
Maama: Wangi?
♫ (What is it?)
Naki (now louder): Ŋŋenda kugula ssukaali.
♫ (I’m going [out] to buy sugar)
Maama: Wattu, togula ssukaali. Nina ssukaali mu fumbiro. Twetaaga munnyo.
♫ (My dear, don’t buy sugar. I have sugar in the kitchen. We need salt.)
Tuning the Ear to Tonality
Olubuto lunnuma.
♫ (The stomach is aching me.),
Obuwunga bwa laala
♫ (The flour is stale/gone off.),
Obulamu buli butya?
♫ (How’s your life?),
Obulamu bulungi.
♫ (Life is good.)
Building Vocabulary
eddagala
♫ (medicine),
omusujja gw’ensiri
♫ (malaria),
ssennyiga
♫ (a head cold),
ekiwundu
♫ (a wound),
ebbavu ddene
♫ (a big hand/foot blister),
ebbwa tono
♫ (a small sore)