In today's episode, I will teach you some great useful and handy phrases. 

1): Waxaan rabaa biyo.

* I want some water.

2): Biyo ii keen.

* Bring me some water.

I know some of you are like "but you didn't say Please in there" you're acting like you have some authority over  the person, I would like to say the word "Please" is understood and you don't have say it! (We've got you covered!) 

3): Maxaan (Mahaan) sameeya hadaba?

* What am I supposed to do then?

4): Waa kuma?

Who is it?  if you think the person who's knocking the door is female (obviously) if she talks and yells open the door. You might say "Waa tuma" just changing the first letter of the previous one. Kuma (for males) changes into Tuma (for females)

5): Waa Aabaha.

* It's your dad.

6): Hadda waxaad ii sheegaysaa inayna biyo oolin?

* Now you are telling me this isn't water.

7): Miyaan kuula ekahay qof kaftamaya?

* Do I really look like to you someone who's joking, kidding?

8): Allow hooyaday jannada meesha ugu sarraysa gali

or Allow hooyaday gali meesha ugu saraysa jannada 

(you can change the order of the words)

* O Allah, grant my mother the highest place in Paradise!

9): Allow waalidkay gali jannada meesha ugu sarraysa.

(Again you change the order)

* O Allah, grant my parents the highest place in Paradise.\

Amen (May Allah accept it)

and thanks for listening. Until next time take care!

Leeyahay and haystaa are synonyms and you're more than welcome to use them interchangeably. As I've mentioned in the episode the word leeyahay shows an absolute ownership whereas haystaa indicates a temporary ownership. But that's only if you want to take a look at the equation from one angle. Technically, they mean the same thing! Thanks for listening!

We do not pluralize when it comes to money. You know how in English you must add the "s" to satisfy the quantity of dollars you are talking about. For instance, you ought to say, "I have a dollar and I have two dollars and 10,000 dollars with the "s" if it's more than a dollar. Somali is quiet the different. It does not matter how much money you are talking about. You would still say dollar or pound or rupe. So don't be surprised when you hear one of us saying, "i have two dollar or I have 5 dollar instead of I have two dollars and I have five dollars. Thank you for listening. Make sure you support the podcast. And your support is appreciated. Thanks again and have a wonderful day, night whatever it maybe be for you!.

Generosity is something that every nation needs to have in order to help its people and it does indeed bring people together. 

Our generosity is kinda special though. You might see someone traveling throughout the country (Somalia) without comprehensive provision knowing  that strangers along the way are more than happy to support them throughout their journey.  

Somali naming usually goes like this. Your first name, your father's first name and your grandfather's first name. For instance, Khadar (my first name), Muktar (my father's first name) and Osman (my grandfather's first name). And this is why I was saying when you call out for a somali person, always call out their first name. They are more likely to respond to that. And I feel like last names are a way of identifying yourself. But in everyday life, FIRST NAMES are more important then last names. 

In today's episode, we'll take a look some phrases that would help you kick-off mini conversation with any Somali person. 

Always start with "ASALAAMU'ALAYKUM" Peace be upon you. It does not matter if they are a bunch of people or a single person. 

As I have mentioned in the eposide, that greating is timeless any precious. You can use it at any given moment. They would more likey respond with "WA"ALAYKUMASALAAM" "you too". I don't know if you know this but we (Somalis) actually like when non-somali person starts a conversation and we can talk to you all day long. When we start to talk, we go all the way. Not like Hi and Hi and then departing pretty soon. Use thses phrases and make new somali friends. 

See tahay or siddii tahay?  How are you? How are you doing?

Fiican = Good/ Great

Magacaa = What's your name?

Please don't ask too many questions. 

If you are lucky, you can even get their phone numbers and start an endless friendship.

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In Today's eposide, we will take a closer look at when Somali langauge was written and why it took so long to put the language into a written form. 

When you have a written language, history will be preserved. Somali language was written in 1972 to 1973 by Said Barre's administration. Although it was a military government and run the government for 21 years. One of the most important thing they have done was "writting the Somali language fo the first time in history". Before our language was written, we used to use Arabic, English, and Italian when it comes to written communication. 

In today's episode, I answer two questions that I was recently asked by one of you guys. 

The difference between "Haystaa and Leeyahay". Well, there is no difference between these because they mean the same thing. 

Some people use "haystaa" instead of Leeyahay. They might say "Waxaan haystaa gaadhi" meaning "I have a car". Some people might prefer using "leeyahay" which literally means the same thing. "I have a car". I mean if someone says "I have a car" and another person says "I got a car" don't they mean the same thing. 

The second question was what is "waa and baa"

You know how English has words that are called "The helping verbs" like "is, are, was, am, were, was and so on" Somali has its own helping verbs too and they are these ones "waa, baa, way, waxay, wuxuu, waxay, and so on. 

Again, I'd like to thank you for asking those awesome questions. If you have any more questions, please let me know!. 

Thank you guys for listening!

In this episode, I teach you how you can give "verbal commands" in Somali.

Hopefully, after this new episode, you will be able to give commands in Somali or at least will know something about it.

In English, it's pretty easy because the base verb is the command already. What do I mean by that?

Look at this!.   Eat is the base verb at the same time isn't it a command when you tell someone "eat this or that" 

you don't do anything to the original verb to make verbal commands in English; however, in Somali, it goes through some changes.

Let's look at this!.  Cabid (Abid)  to drink would change into "cab" just three letters. " Qorid" writing turns into "qor" write! etc.

I hope you've learned something new. Insha Allah I will try to make new episodes in the coming days stay tune.!