My af somali isn't bad tbh but deffooo not boqolkii ba boqol.
First comes Dutch, then English, then Somali.
I believe the main reason my af Somali isn't at what it could be is that I speak only in informal settings. Like at home or over at friends. Conversations are incomplicated and the vocabulary doesn't go beyond day-to-day terms and sentences.
When I'm in a setting like that, I experience no difficulties in expressing myself.
However when I'm watching Somali T.V. or hearing grown ups talk about issues like qabil or politics, I understand next to nothing tbh. It's a shame.
My tip would be find someone, outside your familyhome, who you can talk Somali with on various topics, just to practice. If I think about the conversations I have with my mom, they're all repetitive and on the same basic level so there isn't much to improve on. However I have this neighbour, 30 year old woman with whom I became good friends and we talk about lots of things. To give you an example of a situation I actually improved my af Somali; She wanted to study for her autheorie (I don't know the English word for it) and she asked me to help her because she isn't fluent in the language. In those months I learned so many new words. Like how to say 'give way' in af Somali. How to describe the things in the car. Sometimes I didn't know how to explain something and I had to search for words so hard lol but it was really fun
First comes Dutch, then English, then Somali.
I believe the main reason my af Somali isn't at what it could be is that I speak only in informal settings. Like at home or over at friends. Conversations are incomplicated and the vocabulary doesn't go beyond day-to-day terms and sentences.
When I'm in a setting like that, I experience no difficulties in expressing myself.
However when I'm watching Somali T.V. or hearing grown ups talk about issues like qabil or politics, I understand next to nothing tbh. It's a shame.
My tip would be find someone, outside your familyhome, who you can talk Somali with on various topics, just to practice. If I think about the conversations I have with my mom, they're all repetitive and on the same basic level so there isn't much to improve on. However I have this neighbour, 30 year old woman with whom I became good friends and we talk about lots of things. To give you an example of a situation I actually improved my af Somali; She wanted to study for her autheorie (I don't know the English word for it) and she asked me to help her because she isn't fluent in the language. In those months I learned so many new words. Like how to say 'give way' in af Somali. How to describe the things in the car. Sometimes I didn't know how to explain something and I had to search for words so hard lol but it was really fun
Like you aint reer waqooyi 
