Janga Wolof

The purpose of French Friday is to expand your language capabilities while in West Africa (specifically Senegal). Many Wolof speakers can also understand French and sometimes using French to get your point across is easier than using Wolof since it’s a language closer to our own.

• attelage – coupling, hitch, team, harness, yoke
• calandre – radiator grill, calendar, mangle
• citadin/citadine – city dweller, town, city, urban
• collectionner – to collect
• crasse – grime, filth, crass
• défaillance – blackout, weakness, fault, failure
• enchère – bid
• entendre – to hear, to understand, to mean
• faune – wildlife, fauna, set, crowd
• file – line

Source: Collins French Concise Dictionary 5th Edition. (www.collinslanguage.com)