Speaking Swahili with Lupita Nyong’o

[@entropicpedro]

Lupita's sarcasm in "Oooof Kiswahili sanifu"😂😂😂

[@patriot_2022]

No it's actually very good from him. I didn't expect it after he said "Kaswahili"

[@saphiranahabwe4527]

He took two semesters awww❤. Reason she responded in english 😊

[@wosavanmax001]

I expected swahili only to hear 4 swahili words 😂😂

[@Pree20955]

But she definitely knows how to speak it

[@KillyMilly87]

Walai 😂

[@AngelaNgoma-gf1lm]

For real...like I thought the whole interview she'd speak swahili

[@AngelaNgoma-gf1lm]

@@Pree20955 yeah but not the exact

[@sammykadima]

I know right 😂😂😂😂

[@haggaiandagile6232]

Hakuna kiswahili hapo....😂😂😂

[@Kama_Tz]

Kipo ila cha kutafuta sna

[@stevencamp8018]

That's one fine woman. And I'm not just talking about her looks.

[@halo-august3452]

Lupita Is GORGEOUS ❤

[@stevencamp8018]

Took the words out of my mouth.

[@abdulazizabdallah1741]

She is lesbian

[@raychatu]

Lupita is really stunning!!!!

[@blocboy_bk2756]

Im glad he spoke out language, but I wish he wouldve practiced that😭

[@TheHollywoodPost]

I am working on it. It was smooth in the mirror. In real time I was a little too self conscious and did not want to mess up. Next time I will be better, promise

[@blocboy_bk2756]

@@TheHollywoodPost can’t wait to hear it😭

[@BornIn82]

​@@TheHollywoodPostHongera!

[@TheHollywoodPost]

@BornIn82 Asante!

[@gidemeritus9644]

umejitahidi sana hongera​@@TheHollywoodPost

[@williamcarter9066]

If we as black Americans could speak Swahili 2,things would happen simultaneously 1 it would put us closer to the Continent of Africa 2 and make the bond of our own people that much more stronger!!! AND BLACK PEOPLE is would piss off all bigoted people in America which would be one hell of a bonus of bonuses ya dig 🔥✊🏿🔥🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿🔥🔥

[@twainalex996]

Yes but speak it well … we speak write ✍️ read English well.

[@bluecafe509]

Swahili is East African, your ancestors are from West Africa though.

[@annea5781]

All for learning languages and communication with more people as long as communication is possible. I think it’s a beautiful thing 🥰

[@CamIlle-n5c]

@@twainalex996your point?!

[@Dada-d8p]

@@twainalex996😳😳🤭🤭🤭🤭😆😆😆😆😆🥵

[@obrianstudio]

Kenyans and Tanzanians please (especially Tanzanians 😂) be nice 😂 He’s trying his best, anajaribu bana tukuwe wapole 🙏🏾

[@shizsunshinewachira1344]

Sawa mkubwa😂

[@Skelovane]

His "kaswahili" was really painful! 😖

[@andrewndotela7407]

for 5secs i couldn't feel my legs

[@wilbroadmuro4148]

😂😂

[@janetcherop436]

I felt that too😂😂😂😂

[@hassanmvungi8481]

Yani nimeskia kichwa imegonga paaaa 😂😂😂

[@MrsMageshWoodward]

Painful is an understatement 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Moralstories_kay]

she is multi lingual . very talented.

[@Apman99]

That's how we do it in Africa 😅😅 you need to at least speak 3 or more languages

[@patrickmaiyo249]

Nani mwengine alikuwa yuangojea msemo, kitendawili na methali? 🙋🏿‍♂️😭

[@TheHollywoodPost]

Oh I wish I was able to deliver a proverb

[@daddyjasonssepuya4991]

Ilionekana kana kwamba wote wawili bado wanajifunza Kiswahili.😂

[@nivotibbie9069]

​@@daddyjasonssepuya4991 umeonaee?

[@unknownj431]

I love how cultured Lupita is...❤❤❤

[@abdulazizabdallah1741]

@@unknownj431 which culture LGBTQ?

[@chemybamford9919]

Nilijiuliza Topanga ni wapi? Nilifikiria atasema Homa Bay ni nyumbani 😅

[@sstee1314]

😂

[@Sunnywu109]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂wewe taniuwa waaaah

[@JeseeNjuguna]

Homabay yawa😂😂😂

[@govurma]

🤣🤣🤣 wakenya mutanimaliza

[@annenwjc7184]

😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@georgewangwe744]

Lupita only saying 4 Swahili words and switching up..that’s how we got colonized😂..yet the dude tried couple of words..

[@linalesia5188]

I admire her politeness. The other guest probably doesn’t understand Swahili. It would be rude to exclude him in the conversation.

[@sstee1314]

Plus she responded in Swahili. So she did her part. The guy probably doesn’t understand all Swahili.

[@The-messiah254.]

Umetype na kingereza dwanzi hii.Nyinyi wawili mnafanana.

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

Exactly the others trying to speak Swahili but the Africans living in diaspora pretending not to know swahili😂😂😂

[@HusseinAli-gv8ie]

Born in Mexico her Swahili is impeccable. I am quite impressed by her Swahili accent typical of a Kenya millennium comportment , and being polite to the challenge,kudos!

[@divine5582]

Aii jamani, mi naenda nyumbani tu.. Hebu zungumza Kwa mda tuskie ukitamka semi, methali na ngeli 😅😅😅

[@annea5781]

Hukuskia akianza kwa kusema “Kiswahili Sanifu pia…”

[@56manya]

Umesahau kuongeza tanakali za sauti, hahahaaa! Y’all are funny.

[@gidemeritus9644]

​@@56manya😂

[@vernetify]

What an extraordinarily beautiful lady ! 😊

[@abdulazizabdallah1741]

Lesbian

[@abdulazizabdallah1741]

Beautiful lesbian so sad

[@ProfAkili]

Mgema akisifiwa, matako ulia bwata.... salamu kwa watanzania kutoka Kenya

[@dm33472]

we mzee

[@ProfAkili]

@@dm33472 cheza chini

[@genekendrick679]

😂😂😂😂😂😂We msenge

[@esthermokami8093]

😂😂😂😂 haha ati ni ni?

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

STOP MISLEADING SWAHILI......Mgema akisifiwa tembo hulitia maji.....Maskini akipata mata...hulia mbwata.

[@JosefjemsiNgosha-lw5nf]

Nimependa sana hii video😙😙😙

[@TheHollywoodPost]

Asante

[@makaumulli8778]

A little more would have been nice. Also, many Kenyans on this thread... Nawacheki 😅

[@shizsunshinewachira1344]

Ndio sisi hao

[@makaumulli8778]

@@shizsunshinewachira1344 Vile inafaa 😎

[@alvinmutuma5033]

Lupita hapo napo umemchochaa,,,,,

[@DoItWrightRo]

Exactly…..

[@shizsunshinewachira1344]

Righhhht😂

[@makaumulli8778]

Ukweli 😂😂😂.

[@sharonbaariu2056]

Jaribu kutranslate uone vile inasema😂😂😂😂😂

[@krustykrabbbbb]

😹I knowww

[@kibindankoi9824]

Only one sentence that's it. I don't think she knows more than that. Sio wakenya wote wanaifahamu hii lugha ya kiswahili, haswa wale wenzetu wanaojiona wasomi wakiamka kiingereza, wakilala kiingereza.

[@orisenabritt]

at least we are good in both..we are global..UG and TZ are good only in either english or swahili

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

Kweli kabisaa😊

[@janekatumo5349]

She knows swahili

[@Lynnknowsaurus]

Ofcourse

[@jaelwanyama4298]

She should have said a whole phrase

[@Crlj1min]

The interviewer doesn’t really speak Swahili and her answering the whole question in Swahili would probably be nonsense because he wouldn’t understand

[@muhmuhsini005]

Kiswahili Kitukuzwe 🙂

[@The_Bashar]

The West, including Blacks, don't get African Languages and names which pretty straightforward more than 95% of the time 🙄. If it's European, then they'll get it...

[@roberttarimo4956]

Please don’t take us to colonial heights with English

[@juaramimi5031]

Wow this is interesting

[@shyfettymtunda4619]

Nilikuwa nasubiri kwa hamu aongee Kiswahili.😂😂

[@TheHollywoodPost]

🤷🏾‍♂️ stay tuned

[@mashj6353]

Lupita wewe nae sasa, reply in Swahili umeangusha wengi.

[@Crlj1min]

How was the interviewer going to understand what she said?

[@mashj6353]

@@Crlj1min he asked in swahili.

[@KristinAlayna]

She speaks at least 3 languages.

[@chriswamahiu8751]

4 fluently.. Luo, Swahili, Spanish and English

[@AS-ej4gs]

But when Lillian Muli interviewed her she refused to say even one word in Swahili or Luo.

[@lifeisthebestteacher]

Lupita surprised??? Why???

[@RoseMaryNjiru]

Sentensi mbili tu ndio wameongea? 🤦‍♀️ Nilikuwa nadhani Lupita ata-floss kiasi na Kiswahili

[@stephenmadindou7742]

Huyo jamaa amesema he took two semesters at university na bado sentensini moja tu.....kidogo huyo kaka alitupa karo!

[@TheHollywoodPost]

@stephenmadindou7742 I had a great Professor, Dr Lenora Anyango. I can speak more than two sentences but reading and writing and being conversational is two different things. When you have to interpret and respond it is a bit more difficult. Add to that you are speaking to a gorgeous and intelligent Oscar Award winning actress, I was not trying to do too much within my four minute interview especially since her costar was also in the interview and wouldn’t understand it. So my tuition was well spent thank you 😂

[@jasonraider9601]

@@TheHollywoodPostjust take the feedback fam!!! Expand your vocabulary and work on the accent. Nobody hating apart from the insecurities you feel when it’s being pointed out.

[@TheHollywoodPost]

Seems you are the one insecure. I handle criticism just fine. If you want to insult my efforts that is a different story. Like why are you over here responding to the way I respectfully responded to someone else. You need a friend or something?

[@Afr1canQueen]

​@@TheHollywoodPost actually most of the people on the comments are pleased with your swahili but more disappointed with Lupita. They were expecting her to talk more in swahili since you did a whole sentence. You did great. Hongera.

[@Sofia-wx2ht]

Nice...

[@trueexplorer894]

Honestly speaking and I mean no shades, Lupita speaks Swahili but she is not fluent. I have watched numerous interviews where she had to speak in the language but she suffered. Her first MTV Base “Shuga” TV show she only had two lines in the first episode and none for the rest. Moreover, when she visited Zanzibar she hardly spoke Swahili despite the fact that the island is one of the places where the language is originated and widely spoken.

[@13utt3r5cotch]

Sasa wakenya Kiburi ni ya nini? 😂 Si waneongea Kiswahili ama io ni french? Si ati ata tunajua kiswahili, acheni wa Tz wacomplain.

[@productivityprogressprince5156]

Sasa mbona kasema maneno machache tu.

[@Crlj1min]

Awawezi kumhelewa akijibu swali yote kwenye Kiswahili duh

[@dorcaswamalwa8677]

I thought she sid mtopanga 😂😅

[@Joycejerad]

Kiswahili kipo Tanzania jaman sio kenya ... mbona hamuelewi ????

[@HansChuma]

Em acha upuuz kiswahili hakina cha tanzania kenya uganda burundi wala congo kiswahili nicha wote twaongeo Kiswahili em elimika kidogo haya nikikuuliza tanzania kiswahili kimeanza lin hautonijibu.....

[@Joycejerad]

@@HansChuma kiswahili tz kilianza kabla hujazaliwa pimbi wewe .... kiswahili kipo huku tz utake usitake ....uko kwengine kote mnaiga tu

[@StudioQM]

​@@Joycejerad Kiswahili started in the Kenyan coast

[@Joycejerad]

@@StudioQM hapana ...kilianza kwa dingi ako

[@gloriaamase9764]

Jifunike blanket ukalale swahili tu ndo mnajua 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@barnaba3037]

Jitahidini kuongea zaidi Kiswahili

[@Yo-Bruh]

She can't speak Swahili 😅

[@officialjasonraider]

No Swahili was spoken in this video lol!! Kwa wabongo bado sana. Labda wakenya watakubali Man keeps deleting my comments 🤣😂😂

[@tattoobobby3103]

Wanajikanyaga kanyaga tu 😂, wenye lugha yetu tupo tume tulia

[@TheHollywoodPost]

More spoken than in your interview with Lupita 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@officialjasonraider]

@@TheHollywoodPost I’m not a journalist lol, that’s a weird ass flex man! The title said “Speaking Swahili with Lupita Nyong’o, many of us watched it bcz of the title. Yet there’s barely any real Swahili spoken in the video. Nobody is criticising the interview, so climb off ur insecure tryna prove you better than me attitude. I commented on the amount of Swahili spoken in the video. Clearly you need to learn how to read better and polish up your Swahili if you gonna represent it on your page. Otherwise keep it English, no prob

[@TheHollywoodPost]

It’s a weird statement to say No Swahili was spoken in the interview when you compare it to every other American journalist interview. Obviously some was spoken as “Unakwenda wapi sasa kupata mahali pa utulivu?” Is not an English sentence nor is it Yoruba or Igbo or Portuguese, so was no Swahili spoken in the interview or is that your weird flex?

[@ge4143]

@@TheHollywoodPost Ignore the trolls man! Speaking as a Kenyan they can be really critical of every little thing Lupita was impressed and that’s all that matters at the end of the day.

[@atienootieno1384]

Nafurahia vile watu wameamua kutoa maoni hapa kwa kiswahili

[@kingmono]

Its amazing how little effort the host put into the accent, its as though they think cadence is unimportant.

[@DoItWrightRo]

It’s commendable that he even tried… Perhaps he didn’t want to mispronounce or enunciate it incorrectly, and it is perceived as disrespectful… You can tell he wasn’t confident and how he said it but he wanted to show that he made an effort. Apparently she was ok with it because she was pleased, and responded accordingly…🤷🏽‍♀️

[@kingmono]

@DoItWrightRo africans are always pleased with the minimum effort of others. I say that as an African. I would liked to have seen at least an attempt to work towards an accent. But you're right, he did make an effort... it just seemed a really lazy one.

[@gems3604]

@@DoItWrightRo He gets E for effort. Getting an accent right is difficult for a lot of people let alone cadence. You have to live in the country to get the right cadence, and even, then it's not always there. There are plenty of people from foreign countries who speak English, where English is an official language, and for the life of me I have no idea what they are saying. I am from the US.

[@DoItWrightRo]

@@gems3604 ​​⁠ The saying is as follows: “The phrase 'A for Effort' is used when recognizing that someone tried hard to accomplish something although they might not have been successful. Example of Use: “The cake didn't turn out like she had planned, but I give her an A for effort!” But to your other point…. This should be common knowledge….. The cadence, tone, inflection in one’s dialect, is often contingent upon the region in where they reside.

[@gems3604]

@@DoItWrightRo Okay. A it is.

[@Monsterbrawller]

Sad!!

[@dianamukuna7350]

Woiiiii 😂

[@AnotherBandCreation]

GenZ ..😂

[@45_._callibar]

Kuna semester za kiswahili majuu 😂😂😂

[@josemura5239]

Hadi lupita anabahatisha kiswahili

[@UncleD255]

Eish YAWA, ni Topanga ama ni Topenga...... Halafu mbona si Homabay.....wololo.

[@Lexxx-kv7zy]

@@UncleD255 she was pronouncing it in English, not Swahili.

[@robinsonritho3140]

Yaani lupita amesahau swahili ptoo

[@gatesh254]

Kaswahili 😂😂😂

[@emmanong3158]

Am asking lupita where is that place is it in Uganda or Kenya 😂 I was juiced up until u said Topanga then 😮

[@Gurci28]

Lupita Nyongo carries DNA from the oldest maternal haplogroup called Mitochondrial Eve.

[@Gurci28]

Following a thorough DNA test, Lupita Nyong'o's results reveal her direct and close lineage to woman all humankind descends from. [Africanews] 0:14

[@Gurci28]

An East African woman who walked the Earth at an estimated 200,000 years ago to whom all of humanity traces back.

[@Nostaljia12]

Unakwenda

[@deborahdavie]

Heee Lupita amesahau kiswahili ama🤔? Ety Wakenya Lupita alikuwa anajua Kiswahili kabla ya kuwa famous Lupita?😅

[@tanzcanmediatv4473]

Hakuna kiswahili hapo mnatuzuga

[@TheHollywoodPost]

Yall are so dramatic oh

[@danielholmberg7443]

Not Swahili sanifu! Dude! Learn the freaking language

[@Lian_H]

Yaani nimeacha nilikua nafanya ili kumsikia Lupita anaongea neno moja? Lol

[@omi_kiyaga]

Nimeskia akisema anaishi mtopanga😅

[@TheHollywoodPost]

Lol

[@WILLYTaracha]

Kama hii ndio kiswahili acha nibaki kua mluhya tu

[@jacquelinebl6]

Isn't she a Kenyan, regardless being born in Mexico? And why is trying to sound like Noami Campbell?

[@sheriffmasiro7825]

😂 kaswahili

[@Holysimba21]

Lupita usituchezee wtf was that maneno ata mtoto wa miaka minne anaongea better Swahili than you

[@Hkjvvvfttt]

He just butchered the language in 4words 😢

[@Lexxx-kv7zy]

@@Hkjvvvfttt 🙄

[@dulleyes4732]

Lolllllll

[@angelaodera5514]

Really Lupita?! So disappointing

[@africana22]

Bioords😅