Greetings from the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
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RightSide Guide Magazine is Here!
Introducing the first issue of the survival guide to the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, the RightSide Guide magazine! It’s 32 pages packed with information on activities, transport schedules, upcoming festivals and more for the Corn Islands, Bluefields, Pearl Lagoon and Greytown. This edition will be 1,000 copies and, starting in 2013, will be printed every [...]
Creole language lesson: Kanchruol a di chilren dem wid dayaria
Control of the children them with diarrhea in base house … I think… Wat fa luk, wat fa du!
Learn your Kriol: Nyuumonia kud kaas yu det. Wih kud avaid it.
Click on the poster to get a closer look. As seen in Rama Cay health center (helt senta as dem sey en kriol). Let me know if you get hung up on any of the wurdz.
Together we can avoid that it spread!
What? Diarrrhea? With three Rs? General bad feelings? This human influenza ain’t no joke! This is a public health poster I found hanging up outside the clinic in Rama Cay informing residents of the dangers, symptoms and prevention of the flu. How could I not take a photo?
English creole language test
Okay boys and girls, today we are going to have a test! Not the pass or fail kind, and you don’t need your #2 pencils. This is a language test to see how well you can read. Nicaraguan Creole English is a real language that, as you can see from the graphic below, has its [...]
Talk Kriol
If you want to be understood by the locals you have to learn to talk like the locals. The following is a brief lesson on how to mash up your English to speak passable Creole. Rama Cay creole is slightly different with hard-rolled Rs and a downward draw at the end of some sentences. We, [...]
