Tang Jingyu, a 29-year-old Chinese master of the Kiswahili language, has become an ambassador of the China-Tanzania friendship.
DAR ES SALAAM, July 8 (Xinhua) — If you have never met Tang Jingyu, a 29-year-old Chinese born in east China’s Fujian Province, you never will realize that he is from China when talking with him on the phone in Kiswahili.
The Chinese national, with the local Tanzanian name Juma Suluhu Sharobaro, speaks fluent Kiswahili and is now working in Tanzania as a marketing officer with StarTimes.
At his residence along the Indian Ocean beach in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, he said he had learned Kiswahili for three years beginning in 2011 at the Tianjin Foreign Studies University based in north China.
“I also participated in a student exchange program between China and Tanzania during which I sharpened my Kiswahili speaking at the University of Dar es Salaam…
