I'm having problems with the language ...

Gosh its hard !    Trying to learn or re-learn a language from a book !   When I did it the first time, it was by hearing it spoken in the market and amongst the Africans in the school and who worked for us.  I muddled along, I think people understood, and they smiled politely when I made errors !   I never saw it written down ...

I'm trying a different approach now ... I've got some short paragraphs of conversations in Dholuo, some prayers and one or two other things such as proverbs.   I think if I can learn some of them parrot fashion, it will give me a basis on which to build ... some words ... some phrases ... and it might be easier to progress that way rather than trying myself to construct simple sentences, where the tenses catch me out, as well as a lack of vocabulary. 

So here goes:-

'Nguono mar ruothwa Yesu Christo

Hera mar Nyasaye wuonwa

Kod achiel ma wanjo kuom Roho Maler

Obed kodwa duto nyaka chieng'.

Amina.

The first two lines are firmly embedded in my rather thick head; the next two very shakily indeed !   

Oh, and its the prayer we call 'The Grace' ... (a rough translation from Dholuo would be: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the father, with unity from the Holy Spirit, be with us all forever.  Amen.)