Intro
In the following video, people in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso respond to my questions about the spread of cellphones, which was nowhere near universal when I lived in a rural village in the country between 2009-2011. It was primarily male and there were essentially no smartphones at the time. By the time of this video's filming in early 2019, the situation had changed radically.
The video is roughly two question segments from Episode 6 of Na baro kè.
Watch
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List of Selected Grammar Points
Coming later
Grammar Points Explained
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Vocab
- téléphone
- phone
- ka mɔgɔ wele/weele
- to call sb
- ka weleli ta
- to take/answer a call
- baarakɛnan
- tool
- janfafɛn
- a thing of treachery
- k'à faamuya
- to understand sth
- ka yaala ni X ye
- to go out and about with X
- nafa
- use; utility; benefit
- furu
- marriage
- kɛlɛ
- fight; quarrel
- furusa
- divorce
- ka tilen
- to be straight
- X tilennin/tilennen tɛ!
- X is not correct!
- k'à nagasi
- to damage sth
- kamalen
- young man; male lover; boyfriend
- sungurun
- young woman; female lover; girlfriend
- k'i ka kow dogo-dogo
- to hide your affairs/matters
- ka don X ka téléphone kɔnɔ
- to go into X's phone
- fo ka tɛmɛ
- excessively [Lit. "until to pass"]
- X kala ma
- aware of X
- À bɛ na ni X ye
- It brings about X
Vocab will be here at some point!