<translate> Im sure Ive introduced myself in Kiswahili, but it amazes me that it feels like its a foreign language to me. But it is probably not surprising, since I started school, I have been fluent in English and the trend continued in the same way in elementary school, then high school and university. I was taught Kiswahili in the classroom, like all students who go through schools that follow the education curriculum in Kenya. But outside of that Kiswahili class, it was difficult to find me speaking this language. <swh>Nina uhakika kwamba nimewahi kujitambulisha kwenye lugha ya Kiswahili, lakini yanishangaza kwamba inahisi kana kwamba ni lugha geni kwangu. Lakini pengine si jambo la kushangaza vile, kwani tangu nianze shule, nimekuwa nikizungumza sana kwenye lugha ya Kiingereza na mwenendo ukaendelea vivyo hivyo katika shule ya msingi, kisha chuo cha upili hadi chuo kikuu. Nilifunzwa Kiswahili darasani, kama wanafunzi wote wanaopitia shule zinazofuata mtaala wa elimu nchini Kenya. Lakini nje ya darasa hilo la Kiswahili, ilikuwa ngumu kunipata nikiizungumza lugha hii. 