Swahili is arguably the easiest language in the world to learn. But of late I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about how to say “Romantic” words like “I love you” or “You’re beautiful” in Swahili. Before I do so, let me just come clean right now and say that I downright wouldn’t put Swahili and French on the same level in terms of “Romantic Appeal”.

Now before I get flamed me in the comments section, let me justify my argument concerning “Romantic Appeal” of a language:

• It relies ALOT on what the media has made people to believe. The reason we think French is such a romantic language is simply because time after time Movie Directors have shoved it down our throats: Candle light dinners in Paris; Romantic French couples…you get the point. I bet if the first ever romance movie was in Japanese…ok let’s not go there, but I think you see my point.

• It depends more on the speaker, rather than the language itself. I have a couple of French buddies who are pretty cool…but when it comes to the ladies, they’re just about as smooth as a pile of broken glass…and that’s on their best day

All in all though its pretty fair to say that Swahili is a fairly romantic language. Statistics show that a couple thousand people Google the words “Nakupenda” (I love you) and “Mrembo” (Beautiful) each month. So I’d probably rate it 6.5 out of 10 on the “Romance-O-Meter”. But in terms of how fast you can actually learn Swahili as compared to any other language, probably 9/10.