On 28 April I tutored Umutoni at her family’s apartment. We worked
on words that express emotion. The word for emotion in Kinyarwanda is imbamutima.
I gave her the following words with their Kinyarwandan analogues: happy (ibinezaneza);
sad (intimba); fear (ubwoba); anger (umujinya); worry (guhangayika); anxious (guhangayika);
and scared (gutinya). When we went over a word, I would give a gesture
expressing its meaning. When we were talking about sadness, I would frown, and
when talking about fear, I would pretend to jump in surprise. When I said an
emotion I asked her to do the same, and she did pretty well. Her sisters joined
in, and it became a game. The youngest seemed to enjoy the lesson the most, and
was laughing in delight whenever one of her sisters made a funny face. I left
her with the list of words, and I think she had grasped most of them by the end
of the lesson.
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