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Panya akamtazama mtoto kwa makini, akakonyeza jicho, bali hakujibu. Elisi akasema moyoni “ Labda hasikii Kiswahili, nitasema Kiingereza.” Hakujua ila maneno machache ya Kiingereza, akasema kwa sauti kuu “ Where is my cat?” (Maneno haya ndiyo ya kwanza katika kitabu chake cha kujifunza Kiingereza, tafsiri yake “ Yuko wapi paka wangu?”)

The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing. ‘Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,’ thought Alice; ‘I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.’ (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again: ‘Où est ma chatte?’ which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book.

La Souris la regarda d’un air inquisiteur ; Alice crut même la voir cligner un de ses petits yeux, mais elle ne dit mot. « Peut-être ne comprend-elle pas cette langue », dit Alice ; « c’est sans doute une souris étrangère nouvellement débarquée. Je vais essayer de lui parler italien : “Dove è il mio gatto ?” » C’étaient là les premiers mots de son livre de dialogues.

Il Sorciò la guardò fissamente, la squadrò ben bene co’ suoi piccoli occhietti, ma non rispose niente. “Forse non intende la mia lingua,” disse Alice; […]