Thursday, 12 November 2015

THE UNEXPLORED THARAKA NITHI COUNTY IN BRIEF...



Tharaka-Nithi County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in Kenya's former Eastern Province. The county has an area of 2409 km² and had a population of 365,330 as of the 2009 census.[2]
Tharaka-Nithi County is the home to the Chuka, Muthambi, Mwimbi and Tharaka sections of the Ameru (Meru) community. The people of Tharaka-Nithi County are now predominantly Christian with the Catholics, the Presbyterian, and the Methodists being the predominant religious communities.
 n 1992 Meru District, sometimes called "Greater Meru" was broken up into four pieces, Meru Central, Meru North, Meru South and Tharaka; with Meru South (also known as Nithi District) combined with Tharaka into a new Tharaka-Nithi District. In 1998, the Tharaka Nithi District was split into two districts, Nithi and Tharaka,[3] but the Kenya Supreme Court decision of 2009 declared that split unconstitutional.[4] Subsequently, under the revised constitution of 2010, Tharaka-Nithi became a county.[5]
 The county headquarters is at Kathwana, a site that is at the intersection of the three constituencies (Maara, Tharaka and Chuka/Igamba-ngo'mbe. The headquarters is on the Mate Road, a recently tarmacked road that runs through Ena, Ishiara, Ciakariga, Tunyai, to Meru and Nkubu. The location of the County headquarters was by consensus by all the communities of the County. If well planned it can turn out to be a very beautiful city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharaka-Nithi_County

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

SIMPLEST WAYS TO LEARN YOUR TARGET LANGUAGE...

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Starting a language “from scratch” is essentially impossible because of the vast amount of word you know already through cognates Cognates are “true friends” of words you recognize from your native language that mean the same thing in another language 

Romance languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and others have many words in common with English. English initially “borrowed them” from the Norman conquest of England, which lasted several hundreds of years.

Examples include; Action, nation, precipitation, solution, frustration, tradition, communication, extinction (-tion words) are spelled exactly the same in French, and you can quickly get used to the different pronunciation. Change that -tion to a -ción and you have the same words in Spanish. Italian is -zione and Portu-guese is -ção.  

Many languages also have words that share a common (Greek/Latin or other) root, which can be spelled slightly differently, but that you’d have to try hard not to recognize, such as exemple, hélicoptère (France), porto, capitano (Ital-ian) astronomía, and Saturno (Spanish). German goes a step further and has many words from English’s past that it shares.

To find common words with the language you are learning, simply search for “[language name] cognates” or “[lan-guage name] English loan words” to see words they borrowed from us, and finally “[language name] words in En-glish” to see words we borrowed from them.That’s all well and good for European languages, but what about more distant ones?...Well, it turns out that even languages as different as Japanese can have heaps of very familiar vocabulary. To show you what I mean, have a listen to this song (to the tune of Animaniac’s “Nations of the World”), which is sungentirely in Japanese, and yet you should understand pretty much everything that I and the other Japanese learners are singing:

Many languages simply borrow English words and integrate them into the  new language with altered pronunciation or stress so as to make my life easy when I start learning a language, one of the first word lists I try to consume is a list of, “cognates,” or “English loan words,” which can be found quickly for pretty much any language

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

THE TERM LOVE...


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The term Love, Is used in great and many different ways 
Examples: I love my mother, my dog or my God .
The word has since been overused that has become trivialized;
So what is Love?
       Love is a state of perpetual anesthesia.
       Love is a grave mental disease.
       Love is fiend, a fire, a haven, a hell where pleasure, pain and sad repentance dwell.
       Love is a folly of mind, an unquenchable fire, a hunger without surfeit, a sweet  
       delight, a pleasing madness, a labor without repose repose without labor.
       Love is a feeling you feel when you feel you are going to get a feeling you never  
       felt before.
       Love is when two people are under the most influence of the most insane, most  
       delusive and most transient of passions and are required to share that they will  
       remain that exited abnormal and exhausting condition continually until death do  
       them apart.
       Love is unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.

N/B Love summed up is not just a feeling it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Love is fiend, a fire, a haven, a hell where pleasure, pain and sad repentance dwell.

       Love is a folly of mind, an unquenchable fire, a hunger without surfeit, a sweet delight, a pleasing madness, a labor without repose repose without labor.



TRUE LOVE
True love is caring as much about your partner‘s welfare, hopes and dreams as you do about your own. And this commitment to care is made because the pleasure your partner gives you.
  Love is that feeling of finally meeting someone who finally understands you,  
   someone who provides a new sense of validation, someone who perceives life the  
  way you do. You get a true soul mate. It is a wonderful feeling of bonding.
       Though it is very difficult to come up with the definition of love to convey the 
           excitement, adventure and pleasure that the world go with being in Love.

NOTE BEFORE, 
 Love is a powerful force though does not make the world go round but it is a life changing, mind boggling experience.